Filling the Need for Skilled Workers Requires Smarter Education
Article link Diane Melley Diane Melley is a director in IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs. Posted: September 9, 2010 01:10 PM
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2010 IBM Innovation Awards
New awards program at IBM Check it out! The IBM Innovation Awards is a worldwide program designed to encourage proposals that focus on teaching, research, or community building using key technologies. New! IBM is proud to announce the 2010 Industry Skills Award programs to encourage the developement of innovative courseware and curriculum that contribute to …
2010 Advancing the Grand Challenges of the NAE
Advancing the Grand Challenges of the National Academy of Engineering summit Los Angeles, October 6-8, 2010 at University of Southern California SPEAKERS
Survey on service science masters degree guideline
Please visit this link and take our survey after you have read the proposed guide. http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22B5N5ASQ5H SURVEY CLOSES OCTOBER 3
SSMEnetUK event
Title: Roundtable and Townhall Meeting on Service Research Date:Thursday 23rd September 2010 Venue: University of Cambridge, England Link to external site http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/service/events/serviceweek/roundtable.html
NY Times article supports shared service
Academic Bankruptcy By MARK C. TAYLOR Published: August 14, 2010 WITH the academic year about to begin, colleges and universities, as well as students and their parents, are facing an unprecedented financial crisis. What we’ve seen with California’s distinguished state university system — huge cutbacks in spending and a 32 percent rise in tuition — …
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TEE conference proceedings now available
The IBM & IEEE conference we called “Transforming Engineering Education; Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for a Global Environment” has now published it’s proceedings at the IEEE.org web site, on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. This service is free to IEEE members. I have about 20 CD’s of the proceedings available to the first 20 people who …
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Chapter Review HANDBOOK of SERVICE SCIENCE
from my colleague Raymund Lin, PhD of Taiwan Winning the Service Game, Revisiting the Rules by Which People Co-Create Value This chapter emphasizes people (customers, employees, managers) in the context where consumer services are produced and delivered. It is argued that people are still a prominent key to success in service and that should be …
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IBM wins IEEE Employer Professional Development award
NEWS: The IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) voted to recognize IBM Corporation’s exceptional achievements in professional development by awarding IBM the 2010 IEEE Educational Activities Board Employer Professional Development Award with the following citation: “for sustained excellence, innovative approaches and continuous improvement in learning for its 400,000 employees working in 170 countries worldwide” This award …
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2010 IBM CEO Study
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 …