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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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Cities and the Future of Service

Posted by  on 11 August 2010, 10:27 am

Cities and the Future of Service (WW)

James Cortada (IBM) writes in Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/28/cities-data-growth-ibm-leadership-citizenship-talent.html) : “For the first time ever, more than half of us are city dwellers. By 2050 that number will be 70%. We are adding the equivalent of seven New York Cities to the planet every year. This unprecedented urbanization is a sign of economic and societal progress, especially in places such as China and in other emerging markets. But the scale and nature of the challenges facing cities mean that business as usual is not a viable option. “   http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/gbs/bus/html/smarter-cities.html

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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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Larson article on Shared Services

Posted by  on 5 August 2010, 8:43 am

Shared Service (US) Prof. Richard C. Larson (MIT) has an interesting new OpEd in the Journal of Service Science on Shared Services: “Name three service sectors whose costs to customers have exceeded the rate of inflation by more than a factor of three: health care, higher education and some sectors of government.

The public is becoming exasperated and involved. Isn’t it time to rethink some of the decades long (and in some cases, centuries long) traditional organizational forms in these heretofore protected sectors? …”   See: http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience/paper_details.php?id=78

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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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2010 IBM CEO Study

Posted by  on 28 July 2010, 8:35 am

The CEO study is posted:  http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/ceo/ceostudy2010/index.html

This year, IBM interviewed student (our future leaders!) from around the world. A couple of key points were:

  • Students are at least twice as likely to focus on globalization and sustainability issues as CEOs
  • Students see scarcity of resources as a challenge they will need to address during their lifetimes
  • From CEOs:  Creativity is the #1 leadership quality
  • For Students, creativity is consistently seen as the #1 leadership quality, but students’ emphasis is on global thinking and sustainability
  • Fewer than 4 in 10 students believe their education has prepared them well to address the new realities of a shared planet

Go take a look at the whole report.

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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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Short takes week of 7/19

Posted by  on 20 July 2010, 1:03 pm

Why We Need a Service Science Initiative (Wales) http://cs.swansea.ac.uk/SSI

Take the Survey http://tinyurl.com/2etk5az

Systems Thinking for Service Research (WW) http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience//upload/12705660900.pdf

Service Science Journal (WW) http://www.sersci.com/magazine/v2n1_2/

New Trends in Information Science and Service Science (Korea) http://www.aicit.org/niss/committee.html

Global 250 Private Companies (WW) Always On http://tinyurl.com /2cxyx5e

mart Connected Songdo (Korea) QoL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x9qU-Sav8

Irrigation Infrastructure Policy (Australia) http://www.science.org.au/events/publiclectures/wm/crase.html

Social Media (US) Stanford http://mediax.stanford.edu/WSI/conference.html

Clean Tech (US) Berkeley http://executive.berkeley.edu/programs/cleantech-institute/

Urban Planning (US) MIT http://dusp.mit.edu/

Senseable Cities (US) MIT http://senseable.mit.edu/

Architecture and Planning (US) MIT http://sap.mit.edu/

Energy and Buildings (US) MIT Open Courseware http://tinyurl.com/33uhrnr

Knowledge Society Paradox (WW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TgXaaHPhAs

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China top-rated universities

Posted by  on 20 July 2010, 11:43 am

China Top Ranked Universities: China has seen a huge surge in the number of students attending universities (http://www.asiaecon.org/exclusives/ex_read/19).   “As of right now, the number of students studying in Chinese universities has reached 25 million, which is an astonishing five-fold increase in only nine years, reported the Chinese Education Minister, Zhou Ji.”  The number of top ranked universities in China is increasing.  We noted the correlation between % of WW GDP and % of top-500-ranked universities in a previous blog post (http://www.arwu.org/ARWUAnalysis2009.jsp).   There is also evidence starting to accumulate about the importance of SuperComputing and High-Performance-Computing (HPC) to both university rankings and national GDP.    The HPC numbers for China are also becoming more and more impressive http://www.itworld.com/hardware/109473/china-flexes-supercomputing-muscle-top-500-rankings?source=ITWNLE_nlt_today_2010-05-3
http://124.16.137.70/2009-China-HPC-TOP100-20091101-eng.htm

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Fixing American Education panel

Posted by  on 19 July 2010, 1:37 pm

Fixing American Education Panel  http://vimeo.com/12472147

Videos available online

On June 4, Arizona State University hosted a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. on the need for innovation in education. The purpose of the event was to advance an ongoing dialogue about new ideas and models for K-12 and higher education, and to highlight the model we are developing. The panel included:

Glenn Cummings, Deputy Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Lorenzo Esters, Vice President for Access, Association for Public and Land Grant Universities
Heather Harding, Vice President for Research & Public Policy, Teach For America
Freeman Hrabowski, President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Paula Kerger, President, Public Broadcasting System
Mari Koerner, Dean, ASU College of Teacher Education and Leadership
Dewayne Matthews, Vice President for Policy, Lumina Foundation
Bonnie Reiss, Secretary of Education, State of California

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