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Aims
To understand services as collaborative organizations and service encounters as collaborative encounters.
In particular, to focus on collaborative encounters and their characterizing dimension.
To apply these concepts in an existing and in an up-graded case.
Brief
1. Consider an existing service as a collaborative organization and describe it with a specific focus on
practical and cultural sides of its main encounters (choose the a service among the ones considered in the
Assignment 1)
2. For the proposed service, discuss its possible improvements (what, why, how) and write the brief for the
re-redesign exercise.
3 Following your brief, define an up-graded service and describe its main collaborative encounters
First step: Consider an existing service and focus on its main collaborative encounters
1.1 Service profile (plus image)
1.2 Service activities and enabling solution (plus sketches)
1.3 Participant involvement (plus PI Map)
1.4 Interaction quality (plus IQ Map)
Third step: Following your brief, define an up-graded service and describe its main
collaborative encounters
3.1 Service profile (+ image)
3.2 Service activities and enabling solution (+ sketches)
3.3 Participant involvement (+ PI Map)
3.4 Interaction quality (+ IQ Map)
PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING TEMPLATE TO PREPARE THE 18 PDF. SLIDES (9 WITH IMAGES,
9 WITH TEXTS) TO BE PRESENTED, AND GIVEN TO THE TUTOR, THE 30 APRIL, BEFORE THE
START OF EXERCISE REUSLTS PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION.
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1.1 Service profile
100-200 words
What is it? What is it main aim? How does it work? What is its main idea?
Who are the main actors?
Which are the main collaborative encounters?
Title and sub-title of the service
(country and town - year of start)
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1.2 Service enabling system
Service enabling system
Sketch 1: Sketch actions and the enabling system (see example at the end)
Sketch 2: Position the collaborative encounters on the previous Sketch1 (see example
at the end)
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1.3 Participant involvement
Participant involvement
100-200 words
Participant involvement
collaborative
involvement
- +
A B
-
4
1.4 Interaction quality
Interaction quality
100-200 words
Interaction quality
relational
intensity
- +
formalized / relational /
weak weak
A B
-
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2. Brief construction
Brief construction
100-150 words
Brief construction
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3.1 NEW Service profile
What
is
it?
What
is
it
main
aim?
How
does
it
work?
What
is
its
main
idea?
Who
are
the
main
actors?
Which
are
the
main
collaborative
encounters?
NEW Service profile
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3.2 NEW service enabling system
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3.3 Participant involvement
Participant involvement
100-200 words
Participant involvement
collaborative
involvement
- +
A B
-
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3.4 Interaction quality
Interaction quality
150-200 words
Interaction quality
relational
intensity
- +
formalized / relational /
weak weak
A B
-
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Example (for an existing case)
Circle
UK, Southwark, 2009
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1.2 Service activities, enabling system and collaborative
encounters
Main activities: to the organize, and practically enhance, with elderly active collaboration, of
different everyday life actions as:
Doing something together (from shopping to going to theatre or cinema)
Learning activities (from computer use to gardening)
Social events (from meetings to dancing)
Solving practical problems (form house keeping to domestic appliance maintenance)
Healthcare-related activities.
Circle # learning
activities and activities
(computer)!
# help with practical
enabling system problems!
# organizing community
activities!
# help with
transportations!
# learning
# organizing activities
organizational support! meetings! (gardening)!
# help with
expert staff ! everyday stuff!
on-line platform!
space support! economical support!
Circle # learning
activities and activities
(computer)!
# help with practical
enabling system problems!
# organizing community
activities! 1 elderly-helper
# help with
3 helper-organizers transportations!
# learning
# organizing activities
organizational support! meetings! (gardening)!
expert staff !
2 elderly-organizers
# help with
everyday stuff!
on-line platform!
space support! economical support!
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giving spaces for meetings! activities!
providing a calendar of
activities!
1.3 Participant involvement
The Circle conceives and practically enhances everyday life activities involving elderly people. In order
to do that three main actors are involved: elderly, helpers, and organizers. Their interactions take place
in three main collaborative encounters:
1. Elderly-helper: they meet to do something together. They both participate to this event being active
and collaborative. They decide together what to do and how, in a framework of programs prearranged
(in their general lines) by the organizers. The helpers role is to integrate, when needed, the elderlys
capabilities.
2. Elderly-organizer: they meet in 3 main moments: when the elderly person is entering in the Circle;
when new programs of activities are presented and launched; and when specific professional support is
needed. It is a classical, asymmetrical user-service deliver interaction.
3. Helper-organizer: they meet to co-manage the on-going programs, to discuss the new ones and
solve, day by day, specific problems that may emerge. It is collaboration among colleagues in which the
one (the helper) is involved in the discussion on organizational issues, where the other (the organizer)
will practically put it in practice.
1 collaborative
involvement
- +
2
being served
3
co-management
A B
-
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1.4 Interaction quality
The core of the Circle initiative is to include elderly persons in a social network of friends, neighbours
and social workers.
The informal, friendly daily interactions characterizing this network are enabled by a platform permitting,
at the same time, horizontal, informal collaborations (among elderly people and helpers) and the
vertical, more formal ones (with organizers).
1. Elderly-helper: they are neighbours and friends who do things together because they like to do so.
Their interactions are based on strong ties and imply a high level of relational intensity.
2. Elderly-organizer: this is, basically, classical service user-deliverer interaction. But given the
specificity of this service, it requires some degrees of empathy.
3. Helper-organizer: they interact as colleagues but, in this case, the helper is a volunteer where the
organizer is a professional social worker (employed by the organization). Therefore, their expected
rewards are different. Beyond that, this meeting, being among colleagues, is a rather formalized one;
mutual empathy is possible but not necessary.
formalized
3. Helper-organizer: they
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/ meet to co-manage
relational /
the on-going programs, to discuss the new ones and
weak
solve, day by day, weakemerge. It is a peer-collaboration among colleagues.
specific problems that may
(150)
A B
-
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