Promoting Innovation in the Services Sector
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe reports http://www.unece.org/ceci/publications/icp3.pdf
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new thinking in design management
Cambridge Academic Design Management Conference “CADMC” “New thinking in design management” Cambridge, UK: 7 and 8 September 2011 Website: www.cadmc.org/
Join LinkedIn Group “Service Researchers”
180 members to date Join LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/ Keep up with what’s happening in the world of service research.
digital kids –> a new kind of education
Check this out!! I love it – these children, grades 6 – 12 are our future (needless to say). The new learning model is called “Quest to Learn” Started in 2006, the design is all about innovation, and capitalizing on the kids innate curiosity and energy with the hope to instill a love of life …
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A view of the public sector – wrong direction?
Bruce Holland’s Strategic Snippet Is the Public Sector is going in the wrong direction? February, 2011 The purpose of this Snippet is to illustrate how bureaucracy and red tape may be driving the Public Service in the wrong direction. Indeed, because of unquestioned assumptions, government may be inadvertently designing failure into many things they do …
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Higher Education in the Age of the Cloud
Anyone thinking about education reform today should take a look at this video by Michael Wesch at Kansas State University.
DEADLINE EXTENDED CFP, Symposium on Engineering & Liberal Education
Call for Participation – new deadline 2/23 4rdAnnual Symposium on Engineering & Liberal Education and Integrate to Innovate Faculty Institute June 3-4th, 2011 Union College, Schenectady, NY www.union.edu/integration Union College will host the fourth annual symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education this spring to continue the discussion of the rationale for and methods of integrating …
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CFP Service Science Track of the Annual INFORMS Meeting in Charlotte, NC
The construction of the Service Science Track of the Annual INFORMS Meeting in Charlotte, NC is underway. We need session chairs and papers. Please consider participating in one of these capacities. — Ralph D. Badinelli, Professor, Virginia Tech; Secretary, SRII Past Chair, INFORMS Service Science Section; ralphb@vt.edu (540) 231-7688 Department of Business Information Technology Pamplin …
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Article: Growing Imperative for Innovation Scientists and Engineers
Go here to read the article. at “Blogging Innovation” Paul Hobcraft runs Agility Innovation, an advisory business that stimulates sound innovation practice, researches topics that relate to innovation for the future, as well as aligning innovation to organizations core capabilities. Quote: “What are the disciplines required to be mastered? There is a real need to …
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NEW BOOK!! #3 in the series from Springer: Introduction of Service Systems Implementation
See the abstract here Introduction of Service Systems Implementation Haluk Demirkan, James C. Spohrer and Vikas Krishna available at Springer of course