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This just in from Prof. Yutaka Yamauchi (Kyoto University): See below my eight-week MOOC on service—it will start in two weeks. Hope ISSIP likes it and could help promote it. This is an open online course—we are doing it for free. I think this course is unique with its explicit focus on service; and it …
The attributes of a T-shaped person are often described in other terms…. (click phrase to see article) consilience critical thinking and communication data analytics across disciplines disciplinary expertise empathetic empathy integrative learning interdisciplinary collaboration inclusive excellence lifelong learners project-based learning Renaissance Man synthesizing generalists Thanks to: Jana Markowitz Tony Boccanfuso
Six PhD Scholarships Available! The Centre for Systems Studies, based in the Business School at the University of Hull (UK), has a strong international reputation for its cutting edge work on the theory, methodology and practice of systems thinking. We have six scholarships for our Systems Science PhD program to offer to successful candidates wanting …
A one-day workshop co-located with CHI’16, 7 or 8 May 2016, San Jose, CA, USA Call for Participation Social media and the resulting tidal wave of available data have changed the ways and methods researchers analyze communities at scale. But the full potential for science is not yet achieved. Despite the popularity of social …
Mycroft Cognitive Mediator: Enhancing Team Science: An ISSIP Discovery Summit/OHSL Workshop at IBM Research – Almaden Dec 15-16 Team Science researchers and developers are working together to expand awareness of Team Science tool kits, and find practical measurable ways of boosting team performance. Team Science tool kits and the Team Science community are focused on …
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ISSIP has a monthly lunch series, though for some months the lunches are skipped – if there is an ISSIP co-sponsored conference, or an ISSIP Innovation Summit, etc. If you are being invited to these lunches, it is because we would like to interview you for ISSIP students and early career professionals to learn about …
:::::::::::::::::::: CALL FOR PAPERS, SPECIAL SESSIONS/WORKSHOPS: ::::::::::::::::::: 2016 International Conference on Logistics, Informatics and Services Sciences (LISS’2016) 24-27 July, 2016, Sydney, Australia, with satellite sessions in Beijing, China http://icir.bjtu.edu.cn/liss2016 http://sydney.edu.au/business/itls/LISS2016 *************************************************************************** Hosted by IEEE Technical Committee on Logistics Informatics and Industrial Security Systems The International Center for Informatics Research of Beijing Jiaotong University, …
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I was recently asked about what I thought some of the top readings for service design are – here are my picks: From: https://service-science.info/archives/2210 Shostack, Lynn (1984), “Designing Services that Deliver,” Harvard Business Review, 62 (January-February), 133-39. Normann, Richard and Rafael Ramirez (1993). “From Value Chain to Value Constellation: Designing Interactive Strategy,” Harvard Business Review, …
interesting read for ISSIP SIG and COI leaders found by Butch Casanova, ISSIP Texas NYTimes.com: How Amazon’s Long Game Yielded a Retail Juggernaut from article… Of course, many other retailers could build services like Prime; in fact, many are. But it could take them years to catch up. “The thing about retail is, the consumer …
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Also, please consider joining many ISSIP colleagues at these ISSIP co-sponsored conferences: HICSS Systems Sciences – Hawaii, Jan. 5-8 – http://www.hicss.org/ T Summit – 21st Century Skills – National Academy of Science building Washington DC, March 21-22 – http://tsummit.org AHFE HSSE Human-Side of Service Engineering, Disney World – Orlando FL July 27-31 – http://www.ahfe2016.org/board.html#hsse Still …
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