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IBM wins IEEE Employer Professional Development award

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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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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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Short takes week of July 16

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Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (Germany) AIFB http://www.aifb.kit.edu FZI Research Center for Information Technology (Germany) Karlsruhe http://www.fzi.de Jobs Policy Debate (US) Andy Grove article http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-07-01/how-to-make-an-american-job-before-it-s-too-late-andy-grove.html Jobs and skills (US)  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/02/business/economy/02manufacturing.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=todayspaper Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (India) IIT Bombay http://www.sineiitb.org/ Association of Cost Engineers (UK) Rajkumar Roy, Professor of Competitive Design, Cranfield University …

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Amazon and IBM are ‘cloud champions,’ report says

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By Jon Brodkin  — July 15, 2010 03:47 PM ET Network World – Amazon and IBM are the “cloud champions” according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field. Amazon cloud uses FedEx instead of the Internet to …

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Service Innovation in Cities

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Service Innovation in Cities: More and more stakeholders agree – we need to focus on urban sustainability and service innovation.  Cities, Universities, Companies, are convening to declare their challenges, intentions, solutions, and most of all trigger discussion of future opportunities for co-creating value together.   http://www.amiando.com/livinglabsglobalcopenhagen.html I am especially interested in the work of Prof. David …

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SRII conference & CFP

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Service Research and Innovation Institute (SRII): IEEE and ACM are excellent well-established professional associations.  Many other great professional associations also exist (e.g., INFORMS, AMA, IIE, AIS, etc.).  For example, a note from Prof. Ralph Badinelli,  Virginia Tech and Chairperson of INFORMS Service Science Section, informs:   “The Service Research Innovation Institute (http://www.thesrii.org/) is fast becoming a …

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IAMOT

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Academic Discipline Growth and Management of Technology (MOT): Prof. Yasser Hosni (US University of Central Florida) is the President of the International Association for Management Of Technology (IAMOT). He recently invited me to serve as a member of IAMOT’s Management of Technology Accreditation Board (MOTAB). Prof. Tarek Khalil (Egypt Nile University and US University of …

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In search of the most innovative MBA student team in the world:

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In search of the most innovative MBA student team in the world: More and more student competitions are a way to align university, industry, and government on important themes.   Singularity University is producing a lot of interesting project plans with the goal of creating projects that could change the world (http://singularityu.org/programs/graduate-studies-program/gsp-09/team-projects/) Winners of competitions may …

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update 1 July – Australia, Greece, Smart and more

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Service Science in Australia: Andrew Dingjan (Australia CSIRO), who is the CSIRO Services Science Network Leader and General Manager, Business & Commercialisation, recently ran CSIRO’s first Services Science Network conference … I was able to join via telepresence, and the event website should be available soon. Hossein Zadeh (Australia RMIT) and Jay Hannon (Australia IBM) …

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Conferences: INFORMS, CACM, Forum on Service

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INFORMS Service Science Section: Ralph Badinelli and others continue to encourage an excellent stream of conferences and papers.   I encourage everyone to check out the newsletters at the home website (http://service-sci.section.informs.org/index.html). CACM July 2010: Communications of the ACM 53(7) has several interesting articles for service scientists, including: (1) Mari Sako (Oxford University, UK) Outsourcing versus …

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