What ISSIP offers to help its members grow their global technical eminence 1. Awards – annual excellence in service innovation award (Feb 28th deadline) [example blog] 2. Speaking opportunities that earn “knowledge sharing eminence” badges [example blog] 3. Conference speaking and publication opportunities that can earn best paper awards and badge recognition (e.g., HSSE, HICSS, …

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October 4th talks by Wigderson (Computational Complexity), Paige (Model-Driven Engineering), Spohrer (Service Science and AI). For more details on the event happening 7am-10am PT USA , download the poster: ALAN HARTMAN RETIREMENT SEMINAR MONDAY, OCTOBER 4THZOOM MEETING 17:00 – 17:05: Welcome: Professor Tsvi Kuflik17:05 – 17:10: Opening: Professor Alan Hartman 17:10 – 17:20: Professor Irit …

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While it is great to be 65 years old and ready to retire, I will certainly miss many IBM colleagues. So this post is to just share a few of many great memories, and lessons learned along the way: 1998 My first visit to IBM Research – Almaden was as an Apple DEST (Distinguished Engineer …

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June 29 and June 30, 2021 – Register Here: https://skills4industry.eu/skills-industry Today, huge workforce change is underway: …accelerated by pandemic (online) and technology (AI). Historically, huge workforce change require education to change too:…{agriculture} to manufacturing transition required elementary school…{manufacturing, agriculture} to service transition required high school…{service, manufacturing, agriculture} to knowledge worker transition required university What’s next? …{knowledge, …

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Call for papers In addition to the HICSS Conference call for papers in Smart Service Systems Design (due date June 15, 2021) Please also consider this opportunity: Zurich Summit Call for Papers Smart Services Summit – Zurich, 22 October 2021 Smart Services supporting the new-normal Following on from the Summit in 2020, where the focus …

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Andre Richier recently suggested some readings that are eye-opening. Andre clearly sees the link between the lack of skills and stress at work, poor (mental) health, diminishing productivity etc. The book “Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism” by Case and Deaton speaks directly to the dramatically increased death rate (including suicides) of less …

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Hawaiian International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) HICSS-55 2022, Jan 4-7, 2022, Hyatt Regency, Maui, HI USA [1] Call for Papers (Deadline June 15th) – some ISSIP.org related Sessions Track: Decision Analytics and Service Science [2] Co-Chair: Christer Carlsson (Abo, Finland), Haluk Demirkan (UWashington Tacoma, USA) Minitrack: Smart Service Systems Design [3] Co-Chairs: Ralph Badinelli …

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Call for Papers/speakers AI is increasingly being applied in use cases involving optimization, decision support, and automation. AI-powered systems are poised not only to assist, and augment human capacity in some cases, but also carry out routine to complex tasks in other cases freeing up human time for innovative tasks. This is already starting to …

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Call for Papers: HICSS 2022 – Smart Service Systems Design Mini-track Please consider sharing with your colleagues and/or submitting a paper. Hopefully in person event – Jan 4-7, 2022, Maui, HI USA Many thanks and please share with colleague who may have an interet, Ralph, Jim, and Haluk (co-chairs)Minitrack URL: https://hicss.hawaii.edu/tracks-55/decision-analytics-and-service-science/#smart-service-systems-design-minitrack References Alter S. Applying …

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