Call for Papers, Frontiers in Service

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

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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NY Times article supports shared service

Academic Bankruptcy By MARK C. TAYLOR Published: August 14, 2010 WITH the academic year about to begin, colleges and universities, as well as students and their parents, are facing an unprecedented financial crisis. What we’ve seen with California’s distinguished state university system — huge cutbacks in spending and a 32 percent rise in tuition — …

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TEE conference proceedings now available

The IBM & IEEE conference we called “Transforming Engineering Education; Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for a Global Environment” has now published it’s proceedings at the IEEE.org web site, on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.  This service is free to IEEE members. I have about 20 CD’s of the proceedings available to the first 20 people who …

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IBM wins IEEE Employer Professional Development award

NEWS: The IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) voted to recognize IBM Corporation’s exceptional achievements in professional development by awarding IBM the 2010 IEEE Educational Activities Board Employer Professional Development Award with the following citation: “for sustained excellence, innovative approaches and continuous improvement in learning for its 400,000 employees working in 170 countries worldwide” This award …

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2010 IBM CEO Study

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 …

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7 New Skills Every Worker Needs

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 …

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