Archive of posts filed under the Jim Spohrer’s Blog category.

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Short takes week of 7/19

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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 …

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China top-rated universities

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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 …

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Center for Advanced Study in Enterprise Engineering and Management (Call for Proposals):

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Center for Advanced Study in Enterprise Engineering and Management (Call for Proposals): The IBM Portugal Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Enterprise Engineering and Management (EEM) aims at being a preeminent applied research center of excellence in Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME), dedicated to foster collaboration among academia, industry, government, and IBM Research Laboratories, …

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Service systems – special districts

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Governance Within The Lines: How many different types of service system entities exist in the world.   From a service science perspective, it is important to know about the many, many different types of service system entities, because they can own property and take legal actions in the world in many different ways.  From a governance …

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Short takes 7/19

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Disruptive Service Innovation Survey (UK) http://mbs.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_6l1po7WlWGdNFti Grand Challenge Summit (UK)  Week of Sept 22 University of Cambridge http://tinyurl.com/26jzzu5 Annotated Service Science On-Line Bibliography (WW) http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/ssme/refmenu.asp Innovation in Large Service Systems (WW) http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/ilss/ Hospitality 2.0 (WW) Service Design http://auroralahti.blogspot.com/2010/07/hospitality-20-intro-and-community.html Trillion Dollar Transportation Challenge (US) Churchill Club talk http://tinyurl.com/2cgv38q 2010 State of the Future (WW) http://millennium-project.org/millennium/SOF2010-English.pdf Reframers …

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Eco-city collaboration between Singapore and China

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Tianjin Eco-city: Gloria Ng, who leads Service Innovation Practice, at the Institute for Systems Science at NUS Singapore told me about the Tianjin Eco-city collaboration between Singapore and China:  “We aim to build an economically thriving, environmentally friendly, socially harmonious and resource-efficient city. The key concept underpinning the planning and development of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin …

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Karlsruhe Service Research Institute

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KSRI Mission: Rudi Studer (KIT, Germany)  wrote about KSRI. The Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) develops concepts, methods and technologies for innovators and decision makers, to generate and utilize economic value in a more and more “services-led economy”. We are employing a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to solve business relevant problems along the dimensions “people”, “organization”, …

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Where We are Losing: The 2010 State of the Future report

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Where We are Losing:   The 2010 State of the Future report has just been released by the Millennium Project (http://www.millennium-project.org).   I urge you all to read it soon. I especially think the service science community needs to engage in understanding where we (as an instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent planetary community) are losing: fewer people voting, …

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The Indispensable University

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Universities as Urban Community Leaders: The Indispensable University is a new book by recently retired Virgina Commonwealth University President Trani….  “The Indispensable University asserts that higher education is undergoing a ‘major transformation that is fundamentally redefining the relationship of colleges and universities to the broader community.  This transformation is occurring at every level of higher …

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K-12

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Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It: NYT FRONTPAGE, By Winnie Hu (June 14, 2010) To compete in a global economy, some school districts are offering engineering lessons to students in kindergarten.  “…the big bad wolf had to do more than just huff and puff to blow down the three little pigs’ house.   To start, …

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