New INFORMS Section – lunch November 8 at the annual meeting

Posted by Jim Spohrer on 29 October 2010, 11:49 am

Are you interested in how operations research and management science can be applied to systems with public impact? For example, an animal shelter with arrivals and adoptions is a service system, government agencies design processes that deliver services to taxpayers (e.g., building permits or justice and protection), and after disasters Non-Governmental Organizations provide health, food, …

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Iran restricts social sciences in education

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 25 October 2010, 10:58 am

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101024/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_university_restrictions quote from the article: “The list includes law, philosophy, management, psychology, political science and the two subjects that appear to cause the most concern among Iran’s conservative leadership — women’s studies and human rights.” IMHO: By preventing people from learning about other perspectives I think small groups of people promote misunderstandings and raise barriers, …

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The Chilean way for innovation

Posted by rseguel on 18 October 2010, 5:43 am

In an article recently published at The Daily Best, the Chilean way for innovation is explained with the mega-rescue of the 33 miners last week. Here are 5 success factors for every innovation process: Fast decision process “First, a rapid decision to take action at a high level of intensity came from the top. In …

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Accenture to Spend $100 Million on skills training

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 6 October 2010, 9:57 am

See article: http://www.vault.com/wps/portal/usa/blogs/entry-detail/?blog_id=1261&entry_id=11915

Wordle.net

Posted by Jim Spohrer on 5 October 2010, 1:32 pm

We all know the challenge of trying to provide a nice overview of a complex area in a compelling manner. With http://www.worldle.net one can easily take a paper or a URL and turn it into a visually appealing overview of an area. For example, an IBM colleague recently sent me some material about work going …

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Filling the Need for Skilled Workers Requires Smarter Education

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 16 September 2010, 12:51 pm

Article link Diane Melley Diane Melley is a director in IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs. Posted: September 9, 2010 01:10 PM

Call for Papers, Frontiers in Service

Posted by Site Administrator on 15 September 2010, 10:41 am

June 30 — July 3, 2011 • Columbus, Ohio, USA Call for Papers SPONSORED BY: The Center for Excellence in Service, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, USA Initiative for Managing Services, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, USA The American Marketing Association ► Conference Committee ► Current Topics ► About …

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2010 IBM Innovation Awards

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 14 September 2010, 1:53 pm

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 …

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2010 Advancing the Grand Challenges of the NAE

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 14 September 2010, 1:50 pm

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

Posted by Wendy Murphy on 2 September 2010, 9:01 am

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

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