Wishing everyone a relaxing/festive holiday season and productive/inspiring new year 2019. Please join us at HICSS 52 (Maui), Naples Forum (Ischia), Frontiers (Singapore), AHFE HSSE 2020 (San Diego) – where ISSIP sponsors best paper awards to advance our members professional development. Also, please submit on behalf of your organization a proposal for ISSIP’s Annual Excellence in Service Award (deadline: 2019 Jan 31).

Leaders

Leaders: If your organization is using the power of de-biased opentech AI to advance business and societal service innovations, please consider making 2019 the year you sign an MOU with ISSIP.org – announcement made in the monthly ISSIP newsletter. ISSIP is dedicated to advancing the skills and agile T-shaped competencies of individuals to succeed in the era of opentech AI for smarter/wiser service systems.

Deadlines

ISSIP-related upcoming deadlines that may be of interest…

(a) Jan 19, 2019: Abstracts due for Naples Forum on Service (Ischia, Italy June 4-7) – includes ISSIP’s best abstract award:
https://service-science.info/archives/5016
http://www.naplesforumonservice.it/public/index.php

(b) Jan 31, 2019: Get recognition for your favorite innovation program – ISSIP’s Annual Excellence award:
https://service-science.info/archives/5059
http://www.issip.org/recognitions/excellence-in-service-innovation-award/

ISSIP promotes professional development through awards programs for students, faculty, industry and consultant professionals, government policy makers, non-profits, etc. ISSIP is transdisciplinary, meaning members come from all disciplines, cultures, and industries/systems with an interest in the design and evolution of service systems, socio-technical systems that work to improve value co-creation and capability co-elevation of entities with associated rights and responsibilities.

Thank-you

Recapping 2018, a few people to thank:

Rama Akkiraju: Thank-you to 2018 President Rama Akkiraju (IBM Distinguished Engineer) who wrote (light edits): “My overall assessment of 2018 for ISSIP is that we did some good stuff in 2018 but have lots more stuff to do! :-). We brought an opentech AI focus to ISSIP and drove a couple of projects, namely AI datasets catalogue and servicesets evaluation framework). A blog post will be shared by the end of the year [will link to it here when ready]. This work will continue in 2019. In 2018, we continued all the good programs that were in place from previous years, namely: ISSIP Discovery Summits, Conference engagements (e.g. HICSS, AHFE HSSE, Frontiers, Naples Forum, et.), ISSIP Service Innovation award, Best Student paper awards, Business Expert Press Books, etc. Among the things to do, overall, ISSIP is still relatively unknown to most folks in the industry and academia. We still have lots of work to do to bring clarity on ISSIP’s strategic mission and target customers, to scale ISSIP and to increase its value proposition for its members. It will be a journey and it is time to pass the torch to the next leader. Thank you all for the opportunity to serve ISSIP in 2018!”

Yassi Moghaddam: Executive Director who runs weekly leadership meetings (our “shared” agenda), quarterly board of directors meetings (progress), discovery summits (community meetings), committees (from election committee to awards committees and more, Yassi keeps the committees on track), website, taxes, non-profit duties.

Haluk Demirkan:Board Member and ISSIP Business Expert Press Book Collection. Haluk is ISSIP’s Ambassador to the HICSS conference, and leads the best paper awards given there each year. Haluk also runs many of the student projects between ISSIP industry members.

Salvatore_Moccia: and Michele_Tomic: ISSIP News Editor-in-Chief and ISSIP News Editor, respectively, for ISSIP Newsletter http://www.issip.org/newsletters/ https://paper.li/e-1446674501#/!all

Many others thanked as part of our quarterly ISSIP Board of Directors calls open to all members.