CFP: Service Science for e-Health (Lisbon October)

Subject: [SSH 2013] Submission deadline extended until July 10, 2013 Dear Colleague, This is to inform you that due to numerous requests from authors we have extended the deadline for paper submission for the 1st International Workshop on Service Science  for e-Health (SSH 2013). We will be accepting papers until July 10, 2013. To submit …

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Service Systems Innovation and Ricardo’s Law

Service system innovations cannot change just one thing (systems thinking/design thinking). Changing technology changes people’s skills and interaction patterns. Changing people’s skills often impacts rules, rights, and responsibilities. Changing rules, rights, and responsibilities often impacts customer and provider expectations and experiences.   One of the most fundamental laws of Economics and Service Science is Ricardo’s …

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ReConCon: Rule Innovation as Tech Innovation

ReConCon is about re-imagining governance (or systems of rules). The Founding Fathers of the United States did it, and people have been fighting and dying to preserve and evolve those rules for over two hundred years. ReConstitutional Convention (ReConCon) is a Digital Age exploration of many of the same broader political themes. Jake Dunagan of …

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Cities and Communities: Value Co-Creation and Co-Elevation

Service science is the study of value co-creation phenomena and the co-elevation of nested, networked service systems. Cities and communities are of course service systems. Here are some items, regarding improve-weakest-link and communities-mutual-learning, that may be of interest… Check this out, curators of open data about communities… http://www.datacatalogs.org http://www.datacatalogs.org/about   Important role universities can play …

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Job Posting: Service Solution Design (Silicon Valley California)

The Service Solution Design group atIBM’s Almaden Research Center has an immediate opening for an experienced and outstanding computer scientist with deep subject matter expertise in statistics, machine learning, data mining, business process management and text analysis areas of Computer Science and Operations Research. Experienced candidates with a Ph.D degree in Computer Science and a …

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The power of apprenticeship systems

Recently, I have been trying to learn more about the German/Swiss Apprenticeships Systems. There is much to learn. After receiving a pointer from Ralph Eichler, President of ETH Zurich (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNo4CXakpJ8), I fortunately now have a guide Dr.Ursula Renold, Head of Division Comparative Education Systems, ETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute. Here is what I have …

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Competing for Collaborators

Some hints for university faculty collaborating with IBM. 1. For general information about IBM University Programs Please review… Overview Presentation: What’s UP at IBM? University Programs! http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/ibm-up-external-20130514-v11 Contact: Jim Spohrer (spohrer@us.ibm.com) Director IBM University Programs http://www.service-science.info/archives/2233 2. To connect with an IBMers who shares your interests… Some interest areas… – Learning/Teaching/Courses – Discovery/Research/Publications – Engagement/Entrepreneurship/Service …

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CFP: Big Data and Analytics Education (Submit by June 30)

Call for Short Position Papers on “Big Data and Analytics Education Conference 2013” 1st Big Data and Analytics Education Conference, Las Vegas, Nov. 2-3, 2013 Big data and analytic capabilities are increasingly important to organizations worldwide. The explosion of information, or big data, provides greater potential to unlock insights for scientists and businesses and government …

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