In a column for the Contra Costa Times (4/16), Tapan Munroe writes that there is “a growing gap between skills and education of workers and the needs of employers.” However, “this is not just an American problem, but a problem of the industrial world including China and India.” Munroe notes Manpower Inc’s 2009 worldwide talent …
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A coincidence for the TEE conference…. Ireland Opening “Innovation Center” In Silicon Valley. The San Jose Mercury News (3/15, Carey) reports, “Ireland stepped up its already strong relationship with Silicon Valley on Sunday by opening an ‘innovation center’ in downtown San Jose that it hopes will help revive the battered Irish economy.” Ireland is “hoping …
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“As the dominant applied science in industry, engineering quickly emerged as a major recruiting ground for the applied science of management; and the link is still close today — reflected in an increasing tendency to combine the two in specialized M.B.A. and recruitment programs. ” “Reflecting that, 70 percent of the school’s (MIT Sloan) M.B.A. …
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The PSM is a relatively new graduate degree, just over a decade old, designed to provide students with advanced training in the sciences without a Ph.D. and pertinent business skills without an M.B.A. These programs also emphasize written and verbal skills in which employers say they find traditional science students deficient. Some examples of fields …
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December 7 – 10 2010, San Francisco, California, USA www.icsoc.org IMPORTANT DATES Research and Industry Papers: Abstract due: June 1, 2010 Full paper due: June 7, 2010 Notification: July 14, 2010 Camera ready due: August 23, 2010 TOPICS OF INTEREST ICSOC 2010 seeks outstanding, original contributions, including solid theoretical and empirical evaluations as well as …
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Call for Paper: PACIS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan The 14th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems PACIS 2010 (http://www.pacis2010.org/) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan on July 9-12, 2010 with the theme “Service Science in Information Systems Research.” Submission deadline: Mar 8th, 2010
Table of Contents Chapter 18 “Collaborative Innovation and Service Systems” by Nicholas Donofrio, Calline Sanchez, and Jim Spohrer “This collection of essays provides compelling arguments for the need of an engineering education that prepares engineers for the problems of the 21st century. Following the National Academy’s report on the Engineer of 2020, this book brings …
Order by Feb. 1, 2010 and receive a 20% off list price on any books in the SSRI series. Discount CODE: E30461 – you must use this code to receive the 20% discount Handbook of Service Science, Maglio, Paul P.; Kieliszewski, Cheryl A.; Spohrer, James C. (Eds.) 750 pages, ISBN: 978-1-4419-1627-3, $159.00 20% discount: $127.20 …