As we transition to a service and information-based economy, information specialists are projected onto the leading edge of an emerging science. Service Science and theInformation Professional demonstrates how the power of this new transdisciplinary field can inform and transform the current information professional world. Service Science is about people, technology, information, and organizations. Service Science can be of great benefit to Information Centres everywhere, and Information Service outlets can be a tremendous field of research for this new science. iSchools and Schools of Information Studies can join Computer Science, Engineering and Business Schools in receiving research grants for the development of Service Science. Information professionals need to know this new discipline and be inspired to participate in it.
| ISBN: | 9781843346494 |
| Publication date: | 13th November 2015 |
| Author: | Yvonne (Professor of Innovative Research, Montreux University School of Business,Switzerland) de Grandbois |
| Publisher: | Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd an imprint of Woodhead Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 136 pages |
| Series: | Chandos Information Professional Series |
| Genres: |
Library, archive and information management Library and information services Enterprise software Operational research |