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Higher Education as a Service System: Perspectives for Analysis, Design and Innovation

Webinar on “Higher Education as a Service System: Perspectives for Analysis, Design and Innovation”

25th May 2012

Manchester Centre for Service Research
Manchester Business School
University of Manchester
MBS West 3.103

Recently, the idea of analysing service activities as systems – linking together people, technologies, and organisational structures and processes – has gained ground. Different disciplines and practical perspectives bring their own insights to this approach, and it is argued that we are seeing the emergence of frameworks which can be valuable for bringing together these insights so as to advance analysis and to improve service quality, not least through bringing new tools to bear on service design and to support service innovation.

Higher Education is one of our most important service sectors and can be considered as a complex service system (with wide-ranging missions grouped under the education, research and engagement headings). The aim of this workshop is to identify the key drivers and barriers of change in the Higher Education and explore how the service system perspective can be mobilised to help us better appraise the prospects for its future development.

Programme

15:00 – 15:45 Introductory Presentation
Re-examining the changing HE landscape as a service system
Prof Alistair Sutcliffe, Emeritus Professor, MBS

15:45 – 17:00 Plenary with position statements from participants

17:00 – 17:30 Summary

This will be a by-invitation event.

Please register your interest by email to Azar Shahgholian azar.shahgholian@postgrad.mbs.ac.uk

The event will also be broadcast as a webinar so please indicate whether you would prefer to attend in person or through the webinar.

Call for papers and Invited Sessions Proposals. Submission Deadline: April 11th, 2012

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Special Track on Interdisciplinary Research, Education, and Communication Summer IDREC 2012 (http://www.2012iiisconferences.org/wmsci/idrec)

Jointly with The Summer 2nd International Conference on Design and Modeling in Science, Education, and Technology: DeMset 2012 (http://www.2012iiisconferences.org/demset)
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July 17th – 20th, 2012 – Orlando, Florida, USA
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Non exclusionary Suggested topics
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•   Case Studies in the Integration of Academic Activities
•   Case Studies in the Integration of Inter-disciplinary Research, Education, and communication
•   Case Studies in Applying IDREC to Real Life Problem solving
•   Inter-Disciplinary Research
•   Inter-Disciplinary Education
•   Inter-Disciplinary Communication (which includes the communication of disciplinary research to other disciplines)
•   Relationships between Inter-disciplinary Research and Inter-disciplinary Education
•   Relationships between Inter-disciplinary Research and Inter-disciplinary Communication
•   Relationships between Inter-disciplinary Education and Inter-disciplinary Communication
•   ICT support of IDREC
•   Relationships between IDREC and Analogical thinking and/or Creative Thinking

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Kinds of Submissions
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Submissions will be accepted regarding *THINKING* about and/or *DOING* Inter-disciplinary Research, Education, and/or Communications, as well as regarding their relationships with analogical learning, creativity, and the ways in which ICT might or actually does support them. In this context, *CASE STUDIES* as well as general theories, methodologies, reflections might be the content of submissions to be made to Summer IDREC 2012. DISCIPLINARY RESEARCH may also be submitted as long as at least a 25% of its content is written for INTER-DISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION.

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Technical Keynote Speakers
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Technical keynote speakers will be selected from early submissions because the CV of the presenting author will need to be evaluated as well. To be a candidate to participate as a keynote speaker, please send your CV to IIIS2012J@ATT.net, AFTER you have already submitted your paper.

Thank you for your time

Special Track IDREC 2012 Co-Organizers

CFP – Decision Analytics, Mobile Services and Service Science Track@HICSS 46 – Grand Wailea, Maui Island

Dear Colleagues,

Hello!  I am serving as a co-chair of the “Decision Analytics, Mobile Services and Service Science” track of the upcoming 46th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/46tracks.htm#DT). My co-chair, Christer Carlsson, and I are writing to internationally renowned scholars such as you with expertise in various areas of analytics, mobile systems, service science and emerging solutions in hopes that you will consider submitting a paper to minitracks in this track. We have already received a great deal of interest, and your contributions would help us improve the quality of the sessions. The deadline for submitting papers to HICSS-46 is June 15, 2012. Please consider submitting your work if it is related to any of the specific topics listed and/or if you feel it addresses visions of the future of this track. We expect a range of concepts, tools, methods, philosophies and theories to be discussed. We thank you, in advance, for your valuable contribution to HICSS-46. Please let us know if you have any questions or need additional information. We look forward to receiving your submission!

Best Regards

Haluk Demirkan – haluk.demirkan@asu.edu 

HICSS-46 CALL FOR PAPERS

            Grand Wailea Maui - January 7-10, 2013 (Monday-Thursday)

Additional detail may be found on HICSS primary web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/apahome46.htm

The Decision Analytics, Mobile Services and Service Science Track (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_46/46tracks.htm#DT) is concerned first and foremost with emerging managerial and organizational decision-making strategies, processes, tools, technologies, services and solutions in the Digital Age. This track has 4 interrelated themes. First theme, analytics, focuses on decision making processes, tools and technologies. Mobile services focus on development and delivery of data, information and analytics with mobile technology platforms. Challenges and issues of emerging service industries, and service -orientation and –transformation of strategies, processes, organizations, systems and technologies are covered in service science. In this track, we also discuss about innovative approaches of decision making for/with critical and emerging solutions. This track includes the following mini-tracks:

  • Analytics, Informatics and Decision Support For Sustainability
  • Big Data: Scalable Representation and Analytics for Data Science
  • Cloud Service Science and Systems
  • Decision Making in Production Processes
  • Design, Realization Implementation, Use and Effect of Mobile Value Services
  • Innovation, Design and Analytics Supported Development of ICT Enabled Services
  • Intelligent Decision Support for Logistics and Supply Chain Management
  • Multi-criteria Decision Support
  • Network DSS: Decision Support in the Collaborative Environment of Mobile Social and Sensor Networks
  • Open Data Services
  • Predictive Analytics and Big Data
  • Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME)
  • Soft Computing and Intelligent Data Analysis
  • Soft Computing for Information Access on the Web
  • Telecommunications Analytics and Economics

IMPORTANT DEADLINES
June 15 – Submit full manuscripts for review. The review is double-blind; therefore this submission must be without author names.
Receive acceptance notification by August 15.
Revise your manuscript to add author names. If required, make other changes.
Submit Final Paper for Publication by September 15.

Case Studies in Service Innovation Workshop (CSSI’12) 26th June 2012 Submission Deadline: 11th March 2012

 

In conjunction with 24th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’12), Gdańsk, Poland http://www.caise2012.univ.gda.pl/

 

The workshop is organised by

Centre for Service Research, University of Manchester, UK

Informatics Research Centre, Henley Business School, UK

UK Chapter, Service Research and Innovation Institute (www.thesrii.org)

 

The aim of the workshop is to bring together contributions from researchers and practitioners to better understand service innovation through real life case studies. The workshop seeks to address the underlying theories, models, and tools that contribute to innovation, how it works in practice and how its impact is evaluated. The workshop will add to the wider understanding of how service innovation occurs and will seek to stimulate learning from one context to another.

 

In this workshop we are calling for real-life case studies of Service Innovation. Experience has shown that innovation may be driven by new architectures or information services but real business benefit is often not fully achieved without accompanying process innovation, organisational change or wider innovation management. The workshop will address the complexity of service innovation and hence contribute to a key objective of the CAiSE 2012 conference, that is, to illustrate the need for new transdisciplinary ways of thinking.

 

Case studies in Service Innovation can include but are not limited to the following areas:

  • Innovation at the convergence of manufacturing and services
  • Consumer led innovation or consumers as part of the innovation process
  • Innovative services associated with sustainability and resource efficiency
  • Service innovation in the public sector or voluntary sector
  • Service innovation in education and government
  • Technology led service innovation
  • Service innovation that improves productivity and business performance
  • Service innovation that improves the quality of life
  • Example of small business service innovation

 

KEY DATES

 

Submission of the case for review                                        March 11, 2012 

Notification of acceptance                                                     April 6, 2012

Final submission                                                                      April 30, 2012

Workshop                                                                                June 26, 2012

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 

Papers should be submitted in PDF format via EasyChair https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cssi12. Submissions must conform to Springer’s LNCS format (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-791344-0) and should not exceed six (6) pages, including all text, figures and references.

 

Submissions should provide a description of the context in which the innovation occurred, the opportunity that led to the innovation and an overview of the innovation itself. It should also address how success was measured, what success has been achieved to date and links to further information and related references. The suggested contents of each submission are as follows:

  • Background/Context
  • The Opportunity
  • Description of the Innovation
  • How is success measured?
  • What success has been achieved to date
  • Links to further information

 

The workshop will be organised around five major themes each reflecting recognised sources of service innovation (see http://www.ssmenetuk.org/“>www.ssmenetuk.org). The five themes are:

 

Theme 1:    Business Model Innovation: Service innovation through new ways of creating, delivering or capturing value (economic, social, environmental or other types of value).

 

Theme 2:    The Organisation in its Environment: Service innovation through an organisation engaging beyond its own boundaries, for example through public private partnerships; sourcing knowledge externally; innovation networks; open or distributed innovation.

 

Theme 3:    Innovation Management within an Organisation: Service innovation through an organisation actively encouraging innovation within its own boundaries, for example through project teams, internal governance of innovation, methods or tools that stimulate innovation.

 

Theme 4:    Process Innovation: Service innovation through changes in service design and delivery processes, for example through consumer-led innovation or consumers as part of the innovation process, service operations management, educational processes.

 

Theme 5:    Technology Innovation: Service innovation through the use of technology, for example through ICT-enabled innovation, ICTs that are themselves innovative and support the delivery of new services, new ICT services, new ways of delivering services associated with ICT products, technology other than ICT.

 

Accepted cases will be included in the proceedings published by the workshop organisers and will be available at the SSMEnetUK website. The best and extended workshop papers will be published in a special issue of the http://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-information-system-modeling/1157/” target=”_blank”>International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design; In addition, selected and extended papers will also be published in Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy http://www.springer.com/series/8080“>http://www.springer.com/series/8080 book series.

 

 

WORKSHOP ORGANISERS

 

Babis Theodoulidis (mailto:b.theodoulidis@manchester.ac.uk“>b.theodoulidis@manchester.ac.uk)

Centre for Service Research, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

 

Linda Macaulay (mailto:lindamacaulay2@btinternet.com“>lindamacaulay2@btinternet.com)

Centre for Service Research, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

 

Yin Leng Tan (mailto:y.l.tan@henley.reading.ac.uk“>y.l.tan@henley.reading.ac.uk)

Informatics Research Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK

 

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

 

Youakim Badr, INSA Lyon, France

Pere Botella, Universita Polytecnica de Catalunya, Spain

Hansjoerg Fromm, Karlruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Kazuyoshi Hidaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Pedro Hidalgo, University of Chile, Chile

Michael Lyons, BT Innovate & Design, UK

Kecheng Liu, Henley Business School, UK

Vaughan Michell, Henley Business School, UK

Ian Miles, Manchester Business School, UK

Hamid Motahari-Nezhad, Hewlett-Packard, USA

Steve Street, IBM Global Technology Services, UK

Marja Toivonen, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland

Jennifer Wilby, Hull University Business School, UK

Hossein Seif Zadeh, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

Liping Zhao, University of Manchester, UK


 

 

Dr Yin Leng Tan

Lecturer in Business Informatics

Business Informatics, Systems and Accounting | Henley Business School | University of Reading

Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6UD, UK

t: +44(0)118 378 4032

 

 

Frontiers in Service – Early Conference Registration Open

We invite you to participate in the 21st Annual Frontiers in Service Conference, which is the premier meeting for Service Research. The conference will be a two and a half day event and will include talks by thought leaders and an audience composed of a blend of academics and industry practitioners. This Conference is sponsored by The Center for Excellence in Service, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA,  INFORMSThe American Marketing Association, and IBM,

 

The conference will be held June 14-17, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency, Bethesda Maryland and at the Robert H. Smith School of Business in Van Munching Hall on the University of Maryland main campus, College Park, Maryland, USA.

 

REGISTRATION
Registration is now open. Early registration ends on April 16th–the registration fee will go up after this date.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
 

Curtis Clark, IBM

Apoorva Gandhi,  Marriott International

P.K. Kannan, University of Maryland

Barak Libai, Tel-Aviv University

Gary Swart, oDesk

Caroline Tippett, Phillips Foods & Seafood Restaurants

 

 

 

AIR & HOTEL RESERVATIONS 

 

Hotel and airline reservations should be made on your own – helpful information concerning online registration, hotel reservation information, and airports can be found at

www.rhsmith.umd.edu/frontiersconference/travelinfo.aspx

 

When making your air and hotel reservations, anticipate arriving by Thursday evening for our opening reception from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. and flying out mid-afternoon or later on Sunday. Sessions end at noon on Sunday. Please reserve your hotel room early, as there are a limited number of rooms at our special conference rate. The Conference hotel is offering special room block rates for single through quadruple occupancy rooms.

 

Hyatt Regency Bethesda

Rates per night: $135 (Single/Double), $185 (Triple) and $210(Quad) (all amounts in USD)

By phone: +1 301 657 1234 – Reservation code: TERP

Toll Free (888) 421.1442 – Reservation code: TERP

Room block cut off: May 24, 2012

By Internet: CLICK HERE TO RESERVE A HOTEL ROOM
 

 

 

MORE INFORMATION

More information about the conference can be found online at http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/frontiersconference/

Call for papers IJCSS 2012 International Joint Conference on Service Science – deadline extended to 15 March

PDF of the CALL FOR PAPERS

May 24 – 26 Shanghai, China

UPDATED CONFERENCE LINK  http://ijcss2012.fdsm.fudan.edu.cn/index.html

Through-life Engineering Services (TESConf 2012)

1st International Conference on Through-life Engineering Services (TESConf 2012)

- Enduring and Cost Effective Engineering Solutions for the 21st Century

5-6 November 2012
Shrivenham Campus, Cranfield University, UK

URL: http://www.through-life-engineering-services.org/tesconf/

Submission of session/tutorial and paper abstract proposals (max 500
words with title, full details of the authors and their contact details):
15th February 2012

Successful high technology UK manufacturing companies are offering a
range of interlinked high value products and through-life engineering services.
High value products are typically technology intensive, expensive
and reliability critical requiring costeffective and value led services (such as maintenance, repair and overhaul)
throughout the life cycle. The newly formed EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Through-life Engineering Services is delighted
to announce the first International Conference in this vital area.

Through-life Engineering Services typically now generates 50 – 60% of the revenue in
many companies and the opportunities for industry in the future are set to expand and become a
major part of those that want to survive in the 21st Century. The service that is needed will involve manufacturers
taking more whole life service responsibilities than they have in the past as users seek to find solutions to smooth their
in-year costs and reduce overheads. The Conference will bring experts and researchers in this area together to exchange
ideas and progress in providing solutions to provide world-class capability to enable industry to deliver high value
products with outstanding availability, predictability and reliability with the lowest life cycle cost.

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Professor Rajkumar Roy
Head of Manufacturing and Materials Department
Director, The EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Through-life Engineering Services

Cranfield University
Building 70
Cranfield, Bedford
MK43 0AL
UK

Tel: +44 (0)1234 758555; Fax: +44 (0)1234 758292
Email: r.roy@cranfield.ac.uk or r.roy@ieee.org

URL: http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sas/aboutus/staff/royr.jsp

The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

With the 1945 publication of Science: The Endless
Frontier, Vannevar Bush established an
intellectual architecture that helped define a
set of public science institutions that were
dramatically different from what came before yet
largely remain in place today.  Now, at the start
of the 21st century, many aspects of the science
and innovation system ­ from its organization and
scale to the role of geography, networks, and
legal institutions ­ have witnessed important
changes, with potentially substantial
implications for the design of science policy and
institutions both today and in the decades ahead.

With funding from the National Bureau of Economic
Research and the Erwin Marion Kauffman
Foundation, the conference and subsequent volume
will explore two overarching questions: (1) what
are the critical dimensions of change in science
and innovation systems, and (2) what are the
implications of these changes for policies and
institutions in the 21st Century?
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* The influence of increasing market scale
and globalization on the demand for and supply of innovations;
* Innovation in financing, such as venture
capital, and the role of entrepreneurship in driving innovation;
* Changes in the knowledge production
function, including the human and physical
capital intensity of R&D, changes in the salient
features of the scientific workforce, and the implications of new research
tools;
* Shifts in the geography of R&D, including
regional and international dimensions, the
implications of shifting geography for where the
returns to R&D are captured, and analysis of the evolving forces that
shape agglomeration and collaboration tendencies;
* Changes in intellectual property regimes
and their use, with particular reference to its
impact on licensing and alliances;
* Changes in public views of science;
* How information technology and digitization
are impacting the production and diffusion of knowledge;
* The evolving roles of different research
institutions (including government agencies,
universities, and the private sector) in
regional, national or global innovation systems,
including changes in the relative
scale of these types of institutions, the
organizational forms these institutions take, the
incentive mechanisms these institutions provide,
and the ways these institutions interact;
* Unique features of “new” innovative sectors
(e.g., biotech, clean energy, nanotech, and
mobile broadband) and any implications for innovation policy; and
* Interactions among the above.

This list of topics is intentionally broad and
open-ended, and is meant to simply highlight some
of the many possible areas witnessing substantive
changes in the science and innovation process
that may also raise important questions for policy and institutional design.

Interested authors are encouraged to submit a
2-page research proposal that includes an
abstract of the intended paper, an outline of the
methodologies to be used, and a brief statement
about the current state of the research project.
The research proposals are to be submitted by
April 15, 2012 to

http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=RSIPf12.

Accepted papers will ultimately be published together in an edited volume.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 6,
2012.  A pre-conference is scheduled to be held
in Cambridge, MA on October 26 and 27, 2012, and
the formal conference will be scheduled for
summer 2013.  Authors of accepted papers will be
reimbursed for regular transportation expenses
for both the pre-conference and conference, and
receive an honorarium of $7500 for timely
submission of the draft and final manuscripts.

Conference Organizers

Adam Jaffe, Brandeis University and NBER
Ben Jones, Northwestern University and NBER

CIRP IPS2 2012 special session 8-9 November Tokyo, Japan

CIRP IPS2 2012

THE 4TH CIRP CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEMS
Special Session on: Product Service Systems: from academic innovation to industrial application

8-9 November 2012, Tokyo, Japan

http://www.ips2-2012.org/
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to submit abstracts and papers for the Special Session on Product Service Systems: from academic innovation to industrial application that will take place during the 4TH CIRP CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT SERVICE SYSTEMS: IPS2 2012″ November 8-9, 2012, Tokyo.

Special Session Scope
See attached CFP

Key Dates
17/02/2012: Abstract submission
05/03/2012: Notification of abstract acceptance
04/05/2012: Full paper submission
18/06/2012: Notification of paper acceptance
22/06/2012: Registration deadline
06/07/2012: Camera-ready paper submission

Submission instructions are available at www.ips2-2012.org
For submitting a paper to this proposed session, please: (i) send an email to the session proposers (giuditta.pezzotta@unibg.it) and simultaneously (ii) upload your paper in the system, choosing the session “SS2: PSS – From academic innovation to industrial application”.

CFP = Service Computation 2012 – Nice, France 22 – 27 July

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to SERVICE COMPUTATION 2012.

The submission deadline is set to March 5, 2012.

In addition, authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org

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