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Watson earns WEBBY award

Posted by  on 3 June 2011, 8:55 am

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, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals.

http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/watson-for-a-smarter-planet/index.html

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Short Takes 27 Aug

Posted by  on 27 August 2010, 6:58 am

Service Science Ontology (Italy) http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrarioGuarinoFIS08Proceedings.pdf
Service Science Ontology (Italy) Legal framework http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrGuarFern.pdf

Transportation (China) Bus Straddles Cars http://tinyurl.com/3angwlh

Water (WW) Pepsi Pledge http://tinyurl.com/369m7et

Water/Environment (WW) Tropi-Dry http://tropi-dry.eas.ualberta.ca/2_who.html

Energy (WW) Cool Solar Highways http://www.flixxy.com/solar-highways.htm

Energy (Germany) Improved Solar Cell Models http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719083044.htm

Comm/ICT (Canada) Wireless Sensors http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/research/research-areas/database-systems/wireless-sensors

Buildings (US) Green Homes http://tinyurl.com/38mtdfx

Retail/Media & Entertainment (Canada) Serious Games  https://w3.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/chamilto@ca.ibm.com/entry/jesse_schell_gaming_the_world

Finance/Business (US) US Competitive in Call Center http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0f6d8f76-aa29-11df-9367-00144feabdc0.html

Health (Africa) Health Alliance http://halliance.org/

Education (US) Clarkson is Green http://www.clarkson.edu/news/view.php?id=2493

Education (India) Centers of Excellence http://www-07.ibm.com/in/university/aiinnews.html#excellence

City (WW) IBM CityOne Game  http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/innov8/cityone/index.html

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Short takes 21 August

Posted by  on 23 August 2010, 12:13 pm

European Association for REsearch on SERvices (EU) http://www.reser.net/

IBM #4 2010 Most Innovative Company (WW) http://www.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/innovative_companies_2010.html

Smartest Scientist (CNN) http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/technology/1007/gallery.smartest_people_tech.fortune/41.html

Transportation (US) MIT http://cee.mit.edu/graduate/mst

Transportation (US) MIT http://web.mit.edu/its/research.html

Transportation (US) MIT http://web.mit.edu/its/MITSIMLabOSnew.html

Transportation (US) CMU http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/traffic21/about-traffic21/index.aspx

Transportation (US) CMU http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/australia/news/news-detail/index.aspx?nid=1073

Transportation (US) NCSU http://www2.acs.ncsu.edu/reg_records/crs_cat/CE.html

Transportation (US) UMichigan http://www.umtri.umich.edu/news.php

Transportation (UK) Imperial http://www.geomatics.cv.imperial.ac.uk/html/research/its.asp

Transportation (Belgium) UHasselt http://www.imob.uhasselt.be/index.php?page=2&action=language&language=3

Transportation/Supply Chain (Singapore) SMU http://www.sis.smu.edu.sg/research/research_areas/research_areas_ECSCS.asp

Water/Waste/Air (WW) JAZD Research Report http://tinyurl.com/39qoed9

JAZD Insights (WW) http://www.jazdmarkets.com/

Food/Manufacturing (US) Job Slip Away From US Cities http://tinyurl.com/2ulqe32

Energy (US) Vehicle Recharging Stations http://tinyurl.com/34ewwpk

Energy (WW) Filling Peak Demand https://portal.luxresearchinc.com/research/document_excerpt/6569

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Social Media http://tinyurl.com/33guwvf

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Brain-Computer Interface http://tinyurl.com/25d6zh5

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Smart Gadgets http://tinyurl.com/3ylfhub

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Cellphone Microscope http://cellscope.berkeley.edu/

Info-Comm/ICT (US) Stanford HPC Simulating Materials http://simes.slac.stanford.edu/

Info-Comm/ICT (Canada) HPC http://www.scinet.utoronto.ca/

Info-Comm/ICT (WW) http://www.citygml.org/ (also see http://www.cast.uark.edu/)

Info-Comm/ICT (WW) Future tools for students http://tinyurl.com/q735x7

Info-Comm/ICT (WW) Virtual Conferences http://www.nmc.org/2minute-survey/virtual-conferences

Info-Comm/ICT (Canada) Alberta SMART whiteboards http://tinyurl.com/28va3sx

Buildings (US) Yale http://environment.yale.edu/magazine/spring2009/kroon-hall-rises/

Health (US) EHR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2jqnyd_3NU

Health (US) Scan blood http://tinyurl.com/33xawpp

Health (US) UMissouri http://tinyurl.com/2egwy2f

Education (US) Starting Salaries Engineers http://tinyurl.com/37w8xc4

Education (US) IBM Sourcing service  http://tinyurl.com/lor799

Education (Finland) Aalto Shared service and governance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aalto_University

Education (Brazil, France) Game to learn to fight pandemics http://www.epidemik.com.br/Assista_ao_video.html

Education (US) Fixing US Education Panel http://vimeo.com/12472147

Education (WW) http://singularityu.org/gsp-10/2010/06/gsp10-oc-highlights/

Education (US) Rutgers http://psm.rutgers.edu/content/sc

Education (US) Flexbook http://about.ck12.org/fbdemo12/

Education (US) Complexity and Engineering Mindset http://tinyurl.com/28qbr8q

Education (WW) IEEE Weigh in on Future of Computer Science http://tinyurl.com/38c6msj

Education (WW) Universities getting smarter http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/service-science-progress-and-directions-20100620

Education (US) Silicon Valley http://ua-sv.com/

Cities (US) IBM  http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/smarter-cities.html

Cities (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_towns_and_sister_cities

Cities (US) UArkansas http://uacdc.uark.edu/

Cities (France) Urban Dive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnuFkMrMPM.

Cities (US) See-Click-Fix http://seeclickfix.com/citizens

Cities (US) NYC 311 http://www.nyc.gov/apps/311/

States (US) IBM http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/government/article/palmisano_nga_speech.html

States (Qatar) $100B development investment http://tinyurl.com/2uq3jb7

Nations (WW) http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/smfconf/

Nations (Qatar) Population doubling http://tinyurl.com/37u5fas

Nations (WW) http://www.oecd.org/innovation/strategy

Nations (US) most federal agencies use social media http://tinyurl.com/25zmbj5

Planet (WW) IBM  www.ibm.com/smarterplanet

Planet (WW) IBM  System of Systems $4Trillion Challenge http://tinyurl.com/2w9y5c5

Planet (WW) IBM  Future Leaders http://www.ibm.com/futureleaders http://tinyurl.com/29j9nac

Planet (WW) MIT Global Change http://globalchange.mit.edu/pubs/theses.html

Planet (UK) UCambridge http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/service/events/serviceweek/roundtable.html

IBM Almaden has Tandberg Telepresence (US) http://www.tandberg.com/telepresence/

Cisco acquired Tandberg (US, Sweden) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns669/ttg.html

My dream (WW) High QoS Connections to All the Universities in the World  http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php

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Short takes 16 August

Posted by  on 16 August 2010, 8:52 am

Food & Products (WW) IBM Smarter Food                                http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/opinions/opinion_20081208.shtml

Food & Products (US) Smart Clothes http://tinyurl.com/2duwrld

Energy (US) http://www.pgsenergy.com/phone-seminar/E-101a/Fundamentals-Electric-Service-System/424

Energy (WW) Shale and Liquid Natural Gas Intro Course http://www.pmaconference.com/Shale-LNG-0810-PMA.PDF

Energy (WW) IBM Rational Focal Point                                            http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/lp/demos/summary/r-focalpointutil.html

Comm/ICT (US) Silicon Valley Network http://www.aonetwork.com/

Comm/ICT (US) Future of Mobile Cloud http://tinyurl.com/35dr9rm

Comm/ICT (US) Future of Augmented Reality http://tinyurl.com/2uekajb

Comm/ICT (US) CACM Mechanism Design Meets Computer Science http://tinyurl.com/2fxou3x

Comm/ICT (US) CACM Intelligent Service Machine http://tinyurl.com/23zv5js

Comm/ICT (EU) http://www.prace-project.eu/news/prace-awards-320-million-compute-hours-to-ten-european-research-projects

Retail (US) Demand Management https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/940909241

Finance/Business (WW) Functions & Sectors Weekly Recap http://tinyurl.com/263f3tg

Health (WW) Economist The New Health  http://tinyurl.com/256xhvd

Health (WW) Mitochondrial Toxicology  http://www.labtube.tv/avc-interest.aspx?i=5&c=1&v=621

Health (US)  Berkeley Images from Brain http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/29/inception-science-dreams-technology-brain_slide_2.html

Health (US) NIH 5 Critical Pathways for Science http://www.forbeswolfe.com/2010/07/web-exclusive-nih-director-francis.html

Education (WW) Managing multiple priorities http://www.pryor.com/mkt_info/seminars/desc/MM.asp

Education (WW) T-Shaped managers http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/2235.html

Education (WW) Art and Skills for 21st Century  http://www.nmc.org/pdf/P21-Arts-Map.pdf

Education (WW) Working outside your comfort zone http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/jul2010/ca2010071_670440.htm

Education (US) Entrepreneurship and New Ventures Kauffman FastTrac® Teams Up With Kaplan University to Offer Online FastTrac Courses

Education (US) Educause on Cloud Computing http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB9009.pdf

Education (US) Great Colleges to Work For http://chronicle.com/section/Great-Colleges-to-Work-For/156/

Education (US) Facts and Figures http://chronicle.com/section/Facts-Figures/58/

Education (US) Shared Service http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience/paper_details.php?id=78

State (MA) MA grew 2x faster than US http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2010/07/mass_economy_is.html

Nations (WW) Innovation and Economic Prosperity http://www.itif.org/files/2010-doe-ratkinson.pdf

Nations (WW) Rights for Autonomous Artificial Agents http://tinyurl.com/2bfmwrt

Nations (WW) Leadership http://www.zfco.com/media/articles/ZFA-25-Methods-to-Inspire.pdf

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Short takes 10 August

Posted by  on 10 August 2010, 1:12 pm

Service Wave Conference (Belgium) http://servicewave.eu/2010/
Submit Service Wave Abstracts (WW) https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sw20100

T-shaped Professionals (Singapore) http://tinyurl.com/385p56e

Getting Hired Team Communication Skills (WW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A42Tab_bu6A&feature=related

SD Logic and Service Science  (IMM) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2010.06.031

Submit Service Science Abstracts (WW) https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=srii11

Technology Services World (WW) http://www.technologyservicesworld.com/

Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (EU)  http://www.acsi-project.eu/

Smarter Transportation (Australia) http://australia.betterplace.com/

Smarter Energy (Australia) http://www.energy.unimelb.edu.au/

Smarter Buildings (WW)  The Living Building Challenge  http://ilbi.org/

Smarter Education, Universities, and Cities (US) Silicon Valley http://ua-sv.com/

Smarter Cities (WW) Ecocity Builders   http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/

Smarter Cities (China, India) http://tinyurl.com/38vkstb

Future of Heart of Silicon Valley (US) Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ4OJ6xKuug

Safer Oil  Exploration and Mining (Brazil) http://tinyurl.com/39v3ks4

Nano Bio Clean Tech (WW)  http://www.ianano.org/Site/Events/NBCT/Winner2009.html

Open Science Summit Concept (US) http://opensciencesummit.com/

Open Science Summit Event (US) July 29-31, 2010 Berkeley http://opensciencesummit.eventbrite.com/

ZDNet Announcements (WW) http://www.zdnet.com/topics/announcement

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Short takes 7 August

Posted by  on 7 August 2010, 3:31 pm

Handbook of Service Science (Springer) http://tinyurl.com/3798ybl

Service Science Progress and Directions (Spohrer) http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/service-science-progress-and-directions-20100620

International Conference Exploring Service Science (Switzerland) http://iess.unige.ch/   http://www.slideshare.net/ServicesScience/iess-10-welcome

Public Service Delivery (EU) COCKPIT  http://www.cockpit-project.eu/

Ecoblocks (WW) Harrison Fraker UCBerkeley  http://www.slideshare.net/geoff848/harrison-fraker-ecoblocks

Grand Challenge Summit (US) USC http://www.naegrandchallengessummit2010.org/

Energy and Climate Change Network (Greece) http://www.kepa.uoa.gr/PROMITHEAS_general.htm

Nano Progress (Lux Populi) Green Science and Tech Research  http://tinyurl.com/24pr72v

HPC (UK) Edinburg http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Eddie-Gets-Power-Boost-Goes-Green-97861034.html

HPC Cloud (US) CITRIS   http://cloud.citris-uc.org

Venturing and Investing (WW) Guild Investment http://guildinvestment.com/

New York City Venture Fellows (US) http://www.nycventurefellows.org .

Strategic Business Insights (WW) Http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com

XBRL standard for financial reporting (US) VintageFiling http://www.vfilings.com/

Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (SRI) LIFE http://www.life-slc.org/about-the-life-center

Service Factory Education  (US) Students Meet Your Robot Teacher  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/11robots.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

Personal Robot Industry in Our Life Time (WW) Silicon Valley’s Willow Garage http://tinyurl.com/2amtzju

Robots that Make Things (MakerBots) http://www.makerbot.com/

Service Factory Health  (US) Factory Efficiency Comes to Hospitals http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11seattle.html

Service System Learning (New Scientist) To Be The Best, Learn From The Rest http://tinyurl.com/2ft2xsm

Smarter Systems (US) National Governors Association http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/government/article/palmisano_nga_speech.html

Industry University Collaboration (US) Research and Education  http://research.google.com/university/relations/eduSummit2007/

Industry University Collaboration (US) Research and Education  http://tinyurl.com/25amc78

Learning Design and Technology (US) Stanford  http://ldt.stanford.edu

Learning Object Metadata (US) Tom Wason http://www.tomwason.com

Spectrum of Higher Education (US) NYT on Delta Project Report  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/education/10education.html

Trends in College Spending (US) Delta Project  Report http://deltacostproject.org/analyses/delta_reports.asp

WW GDP and Top Ranked Universities (WW) http://tinyurl.com/2wy7hu9

Charter Cities (WW) Paul Romer’s TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.html

Innovation City (US) Manor Texas http://cityofmanor.org

Innovation City (US) Babcock Ranch Florida http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31827.wss

Innovation City (Denmark) http://www.bass.dk/power/

City Forward (WW) http://www.CityForward.org

Urban Age (WW) http://www.urban-age.net

Study of Work (US) Colorado http://www.colorado.edu/Research/CISW/

Changing the Conversation (US) Marketing Engineering http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12187#toc

SSME (IBM) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/spaces/ssme

Smarter Istanbul (Turkey) http://tinyurl.com/2uq2jjx

Global Mining and Carbon Report (IBM) http://www-05.ibm.com/uk/green/cdp2009/mining.html?ca=_mining_lead_&me=w&met=uk_green

Business Process Bluepinting tool (IBM) http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/bpm-blueprint/

Available via Academic Initiatives website (IBM) https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/university/academicinitiative/

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Emerging Industry: City Making and Recycling:

Posted by  on 1 August 2010, 3:26 pm

People are used to recycling bottles, cellphones, and cars, so why not whole cities or at least sections of cities?

(1) Cities are very important, and by 2050 75% of the worlds population will be urban dwellers http://www.urban-age.net

(2) Great cities depend on great universities, and universities are often in the top ten employers of regions (top 5 if they have a medical school and hospital attached) http://www.edu-impact.com

(3) The relationship between great cities and great universities is becoming a vital partnership as change accelerates http://www.usucoalition.org/downloads/part4/great_cities_great_universities.pdf

(4) The % of WW GDP by nation and % of top-500-ranked universities are correlated very, very highly http://www.arwu.org/ARWUAnalysis2009.jsp

(5) There is green-tech, city-making industry emerging, and it will require rethinking urban space and property law to better support continuous improvement.  Urban sustainability and service innovations will be key,  and the next Moore’s Law may be a Moore’s law related to green buildings, and smarter cities (decade scale, but exponential change) – perhaps… http://www.pacebutler.com/blog/making-detroit-bloom-again/

http://www.charleslandry.com/docs/Bk-landry.pd

http://www.urban-age.net/publications/newspapers/istanbul/articles/04_PhilippRode/en_GB/

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/06/home-recycling/1

http://www.weareacasa.com/

For example, here is a mini-city in the making inside Silicon Valley: http://deliveringthefuture.org/

Part of a climate to prosperity green tech effort http://www.jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/GreenprintforSiliconValley2409embargoedto22009.pdf

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Short takes week of 7/30

Posted by  on 30 July 2010, 3:14 pm

Call for papers SRII (WW) Service Research and Innovation Institute  www.thesrii.org
Journal of International of Commerce, Economics, and Policy (WW) JICEP http://www.worldscinet.com/jicep/jicep.shtml

International Conference (Thailand) Management of Engineering and Technology PICMET’10 http://www.picmet.org/new/Conferences/2010/

Technology and Information Management Program (US) UC Santa Cruz http://www.tim.ucsc.edu/

OECD Innovation Report (WW) Sustainable and greener growth http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/28/45326349.pdf

US White House Innovation Report (US) Sustainability and job creation http://tinyurl.com/29rovwv

Zero Energy Office Buildings (US) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSF5ybnaJXQ&feature=player_embedded

Green Print (US) Joint Venture Silicon Valley http://tinyurl.com/27dbj44

CyberCity and High Tech Jobs (US) NYC http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20080624/FREE/695433497#

Most profitable companies (WW) http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2010/performers/companies/profits/

Big Challenges and Opportunities (US) Tim Draper Venture Capitalist  http://tinyurl.com/27je3mp

Job Growth (US) Driven by New Firms http://tinyurl.com/38t6n9e

Worldometers (WW) http://www.worldometers.com

World Hunger (WW) UN Report http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/

World Hunger Deaths Per Hour (WW) Poverty.com http://www.poverty.com/

World Poverty (WW) World Bank Report http://tinyurl.com/7h7x5

World Governance (WW) World Bank Report http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp

World Human Rights (WW) UN Report http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html

Defining Discrimination (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination

Defining Macroeconomics (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomics

Visualizing GDP per capita (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_PPP_Per_Capita_IMF_2008.svg

Cities (WW) http://www.urban-age.net/

History of Cities (WW) https://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/WcitiesH.htm

Universities Economic Impact (WW) https://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/WcitiesH.htm

History of Universities (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_European_research_universities

Academic Ranking of World Universities (WW) http://www.arwu.org

History of Schools and Universal Education (US) http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/index.html

Economic Analysis by Country (WW) The Economist http://countryanalysis.eiu.com/

National Statistics (WW) Nationmaster http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Teach for America (US) 12% of All Ivy League Seniors Attracted  http://tinyurl.com/2eyxsvg

Imagine Cup (WW) http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/07/imagine-cup-introduction/#ixzz0t8QE5ccY

Education Innovation Blog (US) http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-i-learned-recently-in-nyc_08.html

Citizen Science (US)  Gulf Oil Spill  http://mogo.cs.umass.edu/

Silicon Vally Innovation Institute (US) Innovate or Die http://www.svii.org

Free K-12 Textbooks (US) Content K-12  http://www.ck12.org

Is the end of printed books near? (WW) http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/05/google-penguin-and-the-future-of-e-books/

Education Summit (US) Google 2007 http://research.google.com/university/relations/eduSummit2007/

Artifact-centric service interoperations (EU) http://www.acsi-project.eu/

Research to accelerate the design, deployment, and management of e-service blends (EU)
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-and-european-union-join-to-develop-new-collaborative-e-business-model-extending-open-source-and-cloud-technologies-97913489.html

IBM Almaden has Tandberg Telepresence (US) http://www.tandberg.com/telepresence/ http://www.ivci.com/videoconferencing-tandberg-telepresence.html
Cisco acquired Tandberg (US, Sweden) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns669/ttg.html
My dream (WW) High QoS Connections to All the Universities in the World  http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php

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Short takes – week of July 23

Posted by  on 23 July 2010, 12:41 pm

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

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Merging Service Systems: Shared Service and Shared Governance

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Merging Service Systems:  Shared Service and Shared Governance, benefit from Upskilling Jobs and Strengthening Regional Identity :     When most people hear the word’s “shared service and shared governance” they hear “staff reductions” and political obstacles start emerging left and right.   In spite of this challenge, overcoming these political obstacles can lead to award winning results, as when the city of San Jose and the San Jose State University merged their library systems. “National League of Cities James C. Howland Awards for Municipal Enrichment  ….an award winning idea for cities (2005)… http://www.library.sjsu.edu/about/news/story_05-12-07.htm …. Continue reading ‘Merging Service Systems: Shared Service and Shared Governance’ »

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