Short takes – week of July 23

Conference on Service Innovation (UK) London Business School Sept 22-23, 2010 http://www.msi.org/conferences/conferences.cfm?conf=109

IBM Almaden Institute on Health (US) http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute

SPLASH Health Modeling Project (US)   http://www.almaden.ibm.com/asr/projects/splash

Global Forces: An Introduction (WW) McKinsey Quarterly http://www.msi.org/conferences/conferences.cfm?conf=109

National Information Exchange Model (US) http://www.niem.gov/

Kuali Rice (WW) http://www.kuali.org/rice

Bay Area Council (US) Focus economic development  http://www.bayareacouncil.org/

Jobs and Policy Design (US)  Labors New Critic  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/business/28union.html

Investment and Policy Design (US) Private Equity Funds http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/business/24private.html

The Outsourced City (US) http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/sheriffs-dept-to-patrol-maywood-while-city-employees-now-face-lay-offs.html

Target Operating Models (US)  Holistic Modeling http://www.slideshare.net/rmuse70/operating-model-1511642

Target Operating Models (US)  Holistic Modeling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_model

Free Virtual School (US) Kahn Academy  http://www.khanacademy.org/

Funding University Innovation (US) http://www.forbes.com/2010/06/29/venture-capital-incubators-technology-breakthroughs-universities.html?partner=technology_newsletter

T-Shaped People (US) Stanford Engineering http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225700329&pgno=3

DEEP-QA (US) Watson http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/16/magazine/watson-trivia-game.html?th&emc=th

Skills-Jobs Mismatch (US) http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/06/15/jobs

Skills-Jobs Mismatch (EU) http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/6103_en.pdf

Wired for Speed (Singapore, South Korea) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/technology/15iht-rtechbroad.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

Trendanlyzer (Sweden) Ecological and quality of life interactions http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/trendalyzer/

Connecting Dehli and Mumbai (India) http://www.dmicdc.com/

Connecting Universites with Dual Faculty (China, US) Industrial Engineering http://www.ie.tsinghua.edu.cn/Salvendy/

Gov 2.0 (US) http://www.gov2summit.com/gov2010

LINKS Service Quality Management Simulation (WW) http://www.LINKS-simulations.com

Inheriting a complex world (WW) http://www.ibm.com/services/us/ceo/ceostudy2010/futureleaders.html

Corporate Responsibility (WW) IBM 2009 http://bit.ly/lAAYt

What’s Happening in Service Innovation (UK) http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/csirn/

Syracuse Center of Excellence (US) Environment & Sustainability http://www.syracusecoe.org/coe/

Using IT to create a more sustainable world (US) ITIF http://www.itif.org/events/using-it-create-more-sustainable-world

Service Week (UK) Cambridge University Sept 21-26 http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/service/events/serviceweek/

We have the Tandberg telepresence (now acquired by Cisco) — so interoperation is on the way…. Telepresence at IBM Almaden Research Center (US) 6 Person Tandberg (bought by Cisco) http://www.tandberg.com/telepresence/
Telepresence Comes in Sizes (WW) Some bigger and some smaller  http://www.ivci.com/videoconferencing-tandberg-telepresence.html

My dream (WW) High QoS Connections http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php