New leadership minor modeled on SSME program guide

Mount Marty College has launched a new leadership minor for undergraduates that truly follows the spirit of the interdisciplinary program guide.  Bonita Gacnik, O.S.B., Ph.D contacted me about a year ago to understand the guide and ideas about service science.  Then she and her team made it their own, to fit local needs and Mt …

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HICSS SSME mini-track & workshop

Conference web site: http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu Minitrack: Service Sciences, Management and Engineering (SSME) http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45dt.htm#DT9 Workshop: Five Years of SSME at HICSS: Looking Back and Looking Ahead http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45swt/WS/SSME.pdf A “service system” is in an integrated, value-creating configuration of service providers, their clients, their partners, and others. The best-performing service systems are IT-enabled, customer-centered, relationship-focused, and knowledge-intensive – yet …

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HICSS 2012 Service Science, Systems and Cloud Computing Services Minitrack@HICSS 45 – Grand Wailea, Maui Island

HalukDemirkan is serving as a co-chair of the “Service Science, Systems and Cloud Computing Services” Minitrack in the Decision Technology, Mobile Technologies and Service Science Track of the upcoming 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_45/45dt.htm#DT8). CALL FOR PAPERS

Watson earns WEBBY award

Watson is Webby Person of the Year The Webby Awards The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, …

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Free IBM RedGuides about Smarter Planet topics

This IBM® Redguide™ publication is the first paper in the Smarter Cities™ Series of Redguide publications. This particular guide provides insight into the IBM Smarter Cities vision and explains how information and technology can help make cities smarter. It focuses on the foundation that is used to build a smarter city. It also explains how …

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Call for papers on business models

Industrial Marketing Management Special Issue on Business Models – Exploring value drivers and the role of marketing Submission Deadline: January 31, 2012 Guest Editors: Michael Ehret, Jochen Wirtz and Vishal Kashyap Business Modelling – The rise of a Management Concepts and the need for Research Business models have captured growing attention in academic research on …

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Journal of Service Research Call for Papers

Journal of Service Research calls for submissions for a special interdisciplinary issue on IT-related service. Much of the radical transformation of the world economy from an industrial to a post-industrial service society comes from the contribution of information technology (IT) to service sectors and from IT as service. This special issue is multidisciplinary in nature …

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