The CEO study is posted: http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/ceo/ceostudy2010/index.html This year, IBM interviewed student (our future leaders!) from around the world. A couple of key points were: Students are at least twice as likely to focus on globalization and sustainability issues as CEOs Students see scarcity of resources as a challenge they will need to address during their …
Read the article here: from USNews & World Report Agility / Skills Combos / Tacit skills / A broad vision /Analytics Curiosity / Self Reliance I don’t think these are NEW; they should look familiar to promoters of service science. They really spell out more details about the breadth – the horizontal part of the …
Home Schooling: In preparation for a K-12 education panel I will participate in, I was looking for some help to understand home-schooling in the Bay Area of Northern California (Silicon Valley)…. Marlene Turner, Associate Dean College of Business at San Jose State University helped by providing me with some perspective and then some pointers: “Getting …
Shared Service and Shared Governance: Ever since I mentioned that the City of San Jose, CA and the university SJSU have shared service and shared governance of their libraries at the Martin Luther King Library in San Jose — I have been finding out that other places also/already do the same shared service and shared …
Conference on Service Innovation (UK) London Business School Sept 22-23, 2010 http://www.msi.org/conferences/conferences.cfm?conf=109 IBM Almaden Institute on Health (US) http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute SPLASH Health Modeling Project (US) http://www.almaden.ibm.com/asr/projects/splash Global Forces: An Introduction (WW) McKinsey Quarterly http://www.msi.org/conferences/conferences.cfm?conf=109 National Information Exchange Model (US) http://www.niem.gov/ Kuali Rice (WW) http://www.kuali.org/rice Bay Area Council (US) Focus economic development http://www.bayareacouncil.org/ Jobs and Policy Design …
Merging Service Systems: Shared Service and Shared Governance, benefit from Upskilling Jobs and Strengthening Regional Identity : When most people hear the word’s “shared service and shared governance” they hear “staff reductions” and political obstacles start emerging left and right. In spite of this challenge, overcoming these political obstacles can lead to award winning results, …
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Gateway Partnership: I like the Gateway Partnership in the Northern California Bay Area (Silicon Valley). Christopher Wu, Partnership Manager at CSU East Bay (California State University) explains the Vision: A region with successful students, productive citizens, and thriving cities. Mission: To create a world class system of education that ensures every student will succeed in …
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Desalination Plants: The folks at U Texas El Paso have been very helpful in my efforts to understand groundwater and inland desalination. Also, Peter Williams has been helpful in my quest to understand desalination. He notes that while very popular, Reverse-Osmosis desal is not necessarily the clear favorite these days- there are new alternatives out …
Why We Need a Service Science Initiative (Wales) http://cs.swansea.ac.uk/SSI Take the Survey http://tinyurl.com/2etk5az Systems Thinking for Service Research (WW) http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience//upload/12705660900.pdf Service Science Journal (WW) http://www.sersci.com/magazine/v2n1_2/ New Trends in Information Science and Service Science (Korea) http://www.aicit.org/niss/committee.html Global 250 Private Companies (WW) Always On http://tinyurl.com /2cxyx5e mart Connected Songdo (Korea) QoL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x9qU-Sav8 Irrigation Infrastructure Policy (Australia) http://www.science.org.au/events/publiclectures/wm/crase.html …
China Top Ranked Universities: China has seen a huge surge in the number of students attending universities (http://www.asiaecon.org/exclusives/ex_read/19). “As of right now, the number of students studying in Chinese universities has reached 25 million, which is an astonishing five-fold increase in only nine years, reported the Chinese Education Minister, Zhou Ji.” The number of top …