The National Science Foundation has a new group NSF Smart Service Systems now on LinkedIn…

…got me thinking about Service-related LinkedIn groups that have excellent discussions.

Here are some service-related LinkedIn Groups (membership numbers as of July 27, 2013):

NSF Industry-Academe Enabling Smart Service Systems group(20 members) started two days ago is about service system innovations, and linking industry, academics, and government, to help identify knowledge gaps and close them.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/NSF-Industry-Academe-Enabling-Smart-5109582

BizArchitect’s Community group (6,457 members) is about a relatively new profession.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Business-Architecture-Community-84758

The International Service Design Network group (4,789 members) is where it is at for service design discussions.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=74907

TSIA’s Technology Service Professionals Collaboration Network group (3,230 members) has great discussions about IT-service business  best practices and the TSW conference, which is excellent for networking with industry professional who care about service business transformation and maximizing revenue and profits.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Technology-Services-Professionals-Collaboration-Networking-2044178

Service Researchers group (863 members) has broad ranging discussions about service research.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Service-Researchers-2043159

Service Science group (826 members) has excellent service science discussions, a new academic trandiscipline that borrows from, but does not replace, service operations, service marketing, economics and service sector studies, information systems and work system and service-oriented architecture studies, computer science and service computing and web service studies, service systems engineering, service design, and more.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Service-Science-149276

The Cambridge Service Alliance group (484 members) has excellent “servitization” discussions.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Cambridge-Service-Alliance-3866131

SERVSIG group (429 members) has excellent service marketing discussions.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/SERVSIG-3871618

Platforms and Business Model Strategies group (238 members) has excellent discussions about what are the top platform innovations today, and how they are driving new business models.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Platform-Business-Models-Strategies-3830083

Service 2.0 group (223 members) has excellent discussions about Service 2.0 capabilities and drivers of change.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Service-20-4283924

The International Society of Service Innovation Professional group (51 members) is new too, and has excellent discussions about T-shaped service innovations and is an umbrella professional association.
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/International-Society-Service-Innovation-Professionals-4720974