Bruce Holland’s Strategic Snippet Is the Public Sector is going in the wrong direction? February, 2011 The purpose of this Snippet is to illustrate how bureaucracy and red tape may be driving the Public Service in the wrong direction. Indeed, because of unquestioned assumptions, government may be inadvertently designing failure into many things they do …
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CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS SERVICE COMPUTATION 2011: The Third International Conferences on Advanced Service Computing September 25-30, 2011 – Rome, Italy General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/SERVICECOMPUTATION11.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2011/CfPSERVICECOMPUTATION11.html Submission deadline: April 20, 2011 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Please note the Poster Forum …
The submission deadline for refereed research papers have been extended to February 28, 2011. The submission deadline for non-refereed research abstracts and proposals for workshops, panels, tutorials, and symposia have been extended to March 30, 2011. The 2011 Annual Meeting of the Art & Science of Service June 8-10, 2011 IBM Research – Almaden San …
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The construction of the Service Science Track of the Annual INFORMS Meeting in Charlotte, NC is underway. We need session chairs and papers. Please consider participating in one of these capacities. — Ralph D. Badinelli, Professor, Virginia Tech; Secretary, SRII Past Chair, INFORMS Service Science Section; ralphb@vt.edu (540) 231-7688 Department of Business Information Technology Pamplin …
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Graduate program link <http://www.ksri.kit.edu/graduate-program> KSRI offers a new interdisciplinary graduate program “Service Research” with focus on Service Value Networks.
Look here: http://www.ksri.kit.edu/Upload/Users/jobs/2010-12-16-ksri-job-guest-proferssorship.pdf The Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) is an interdisciplinary research institute at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in the area of Service Research. From different perspectives, we investigate complex service systems where economic value is created jointly by multiple independent parties which act together efficiently through the systematic use of ICT. …
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“Product‐Service System Engineering: From Theory to Industrial Applications” http://www.elsevierscitech.com/dronsite/COMIND-CfP-SergioCavalieri-Jan2011.pdf Goal of the issue is to provide strategic frameworks conceptual and analytical models, and case studies that focus on the systematic development, design and implementation of Product-Service Systems. Submissions to this Special section must represent original material that have been neither submitted to, nor published in, …
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ITSqc directors, Bill Hefley and Jeff Perdue, will be presenting an overview of the eSourcing Capability Models and their use in Organizational Certification at the IAOP Outsourcing World Summit. This tutorial for executives and senior sourcing professionals, will be held on Sunday afternoon, February 20, 2011. The Summit this year is being held at the …
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Attend the 1st International Conference on Human Side of Service Engineering, at Hilton hotel, Union Square, San Francisco, USA Go to call here: http://www.ahfe2012.org/files/CFP_2012_24.pdf
The 9th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2011) The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2011) The 8th IEEE 2011 International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2011) The 7th IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES 2011) July 4-9, 2011, Washington Marriott, Washington, DC, USA Conference rate: $145/night with Internet access included …