INFORMS Conference: Service Science Section

2013 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research April 7-9, 2013              |           Grand Hyatt San Antonio               |            San Antonio, Texas Interested in Service Science? With INFORMS concentrated tracks format, you can choose to specialize in the what you care about most. Get first-hand knowledge on Service Science topics by attending all or choosing from …

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Jobs: Faculty in Service Systems (Warwick University, UK)

Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (Service Systems/Service Management/Service Marketing/Digital Innovation) Assistant Professor £37,382 – £44,607 pa Associate Professor £45,941 – £53,233 pa An exciting opportunity exists to join Service Systems Group, part of the world renowned WMG, at the University of Warwick. WMG and the Service Systems Group interact with other academic institutions throughout the …

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CFP: INFORMS Service Science Section

Dear Service Science Member, We would like to invite you to submit an abstract or serve as a Session Chair for the Service Science Cluster at the INFORMS 2013 Annual Meeting, to be held from October 6‐9, 2013, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. In the last 100 years, the importance of service in all facets of …

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Join ISSIP SIG Education and Research

Dear Service Innovation Professional or Student, Do you have 30 minutes a week to develop your professional depth and breadth? If so, please register at ISSIP.org (its fast and free). Service innovators are T-shaped, with both depth and breadth of knowledge and experience. The International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP.org) and SIG Education & …

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Student project ideas for service science

Here are some ideas for student projects to help advance service science: 1. Service culture study – as you know part of being T-shaped is academic discipline, industry sector, and regional culture diversity – each student could take a major country in the world and research service culture for that nation – for start-ups that …

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CFP: Value-driven Social Semantics & Collective Intelligence (VaSCo)

1st International IFIP Working Conference on Value-driven Social Semantics & Collective Intelligence (VaSCo) on May 1, 2013 at ACM Web Science 2013 co-located with Hypertext 2013, CHI 2013, European Computing Research Congress 2013 https://sites.google.com/site/ifipvasco2013/ > **CHAIR** > > Pieter De Leenheer, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands & Collibra NV, Belgium (IFIP WG 12.7 chair) > …

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The Well-Read Service Scientist

Here are over three hundred references that the well-read service scientist should be aware of… Category 1: Required (68) Category 2: Recommended (42) Category 3: Review (85), Category 4: Relevant (76) Category 5: Receive (44)   Category 1: Required (68) Vargo, S. L., & Lusch, R. F. (2008). Service-dominant logic: continuing the evolution. Journal of …

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California Leading a Transformation of Higher Education

In How California’s Online Education Pilot Will End College As We Know It Gregory Ferenstein (Tuesday, January 15th, 2013) made six prediction about the end of college as we know it today… “If I had to predict how the fallout of this pilot will go, here’s my timeline: 1. Pilot succeeds, expands to more universities …

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UK Studentship at Cranfield University on Aerospace Cost Model

Rolls-Royce & Cranfield PhD Studentship – Integrating Manufacturing Process Capabilities into Aerospace Cost Model Application deadline:15 February 2013 Supervisor:Dr Essam Shehab Duration of award: 3 Years Supported by Rolls-Royce and EPSRC, a studentship with up to £17,000 p.a. for 3 years plus fees* is available Cranfield University have a collaborative research opportunity with Rolls-Royce, which …

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