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ITSqc: eSourcing Capability Model Courses

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eSCM-CL Model Course http://www.itsqc.org/training/courses/escm-cl.html eSCM-SP and eSCM-CL Model Courses Available The eSourcing Capability Model for Client Organizations (eSCM-CL) Course will be taught by the ITSqc Directors, in Pittsburgh PA USA, September 12 – 14.  The course description is here.  Registration information is here. The eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM-SP) Course will be taught …

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CFP: Conference on Resource Intensive Applications and Services (Lisbon, March 2013)

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The submission deadline is October 29, 2012. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== INTENSIVE 2013 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS INTENSIVE 2013, The Fifth International Conference on Resource Intensive Applications and Services March 24 – …

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A New Engineering-Challenge Discipline: Rapidly Rebuilding Societal Infrastructure

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A New Engineering-Challenge Discipline: Rapidly Rebuilding Societal Infrastructure “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician How quickly can an individual engineering student or team of students rebuild from scratch the advanced technology infrastructure of society?  From raw materials to simple …

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Service System Analytics

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Service Systems Analytics Dianne Fodell (twitter @difodell) is helping to link thinking about analytics and service systems. She sent me these pointers: A Faculty Consortium for sharing course materials, data sets and best practices (please encourage faculty to join):  http://www.AnalyticsConnection.org The Academic Initiative BAO Portal (this is primary external site for faculty): https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/university/bao/index.html Analytic Zone …

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Service Innovation Policy – OECD Survey and Workshop

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Please take the following survey (about five minutes): https://webnet.oecd.org/Survey/Survey.aspx?s=9e39dcb15b1b40319d9e3e1bb1bb7fb6 The OECD  Working Party on Innovation and Technology Policy (TIP) has launched a project on R&D and innovation in services, which is intended to provide evidence on recent service innovation trends, improve the measurement of service-based activity across sectors, and increase understanding of the role of …

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Learning in an Era of Rapid Tech Change

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Leaning in an Era of Rapid Tech Change http://www.learndev.org/dl/DenverSpohrer.PDF The 6 R’s of learning based on “where” knowledge has been before… In Your Brain Before: 1. Remind & Remediate: The knowledge has existed in the person’s brain before, but been forgotten or made inaccessible. In this case, the person must be reminded of what they …

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A Real Jobs Plan For the 21st Century

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15 March 2012 Special GSN Update: Forbes Article on Brad Jensen Book, “Global Trade in Services: Fear, Facts, and Offshoring” A Real Jobs Plan For The 21st Century Ed Black, Contributor Tech Association CEO Times are tough.  So it is not surprising that so many politicians are talking about employment and jobs.  President Obama has …

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The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy

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With the 1945 publication of Science: The Endless Frontier, Vannevar Bush established an intellectual architecture that helped define a set of public science institutions that were dramatically different from what came before yet largely remain in place today.  Now, at the start of the 21st century, many aspects of the science and innovation system ­ …

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