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Merging Service Systems: Shared Service and Shared Governance

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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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Northern California Gateway Partnership

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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 alternatives

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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 …

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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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