Blog entries originated by Spohrer
People are used to recycling bottles, cellphones, and cars, so why not whole cities or at least sections of cities? (1) Cities are very important, and by 2050 75% of the worlds population will be urban dwellers http://www.urban-age.net (2) Great cities depend on great universities, and universities are often in the top ten employers of …
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Call for papers SRII (WW) Service Research and Innovation Institute www.thesrii.org Journal of International of Commerce, Economics, and Policy (WW) JICEP http://www.worldscinet.com/jicep/jicep.shtml International Conference (Thailand) Management of Engineering and Technology PICMET’10 http://www.picmet.org/new/Conferences/2010/ Technology and Information Management Program (US) UC Santa Cruz http://www.tim.ucsc.edu/ OECD Innovation Report (WW) Sustainable and greener growth http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/28/45326349.pdf US White House Innovation …
High schools face many challenges. First, the fluctuating high school drop out rate in the US (around 8-10% over all), especially in the largest urban areas (as high as 50% or more), is setting off alarm bells with many stakeholders. Part of the solution is universities getting more involved in high schools. Second, funding shortages …
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Some of the Amazing People I Know: Many people amaze me — let me give two examples — one outside IBM and one inside IBM. Outside IBM, one person who is a constant source of wonder to me for his energy and activities is Prof. Jay Kandampully Ohio State University, Professor of Services Management , …
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 …