What ISSIP offers to help its members grow their global technical eminence 1. Awards – annual excellence in service innovation award (Feb 28th deadline) [example blog] 2. Speaking opportunities that earn “knowledge sharing eminence” badges [example blog] 3. Conference speaking and publication opportunities that can earn best paper awards and badge recognition (e.g., HSSE, HICSS, …

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Annually and bi-annually, there are a number of service innovation related conferences, some are sponsored by ISSIP or have ISSIP Ambassadors who help lead and/or organize sessions at the conferences. HICSS: Deadlines Feb 12 for mini-tracks and June 15 for papers. Estimated 1000 attendees. Typically several service science and service innovation friendly mini-tracks. Location Hawaii …

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Annually, there are a a number of service innovation awards. ISSIP Excellence in Service Innovation Award: Deadline Feb 28, 2022. “…. to a company or organizations that has … deployed a new service that, in the judgment of the ISSIP Award Committee, is the most innovative of all of the submissions for that year with …

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As part of my reading and thinking this morning, ServCollab was top of mind, and the scale of the grand challenge problems that community of practice is trying to tackle (service ecosystem health, climate change, refugee service experience, inclusion, etc.), as well as synergies and collaboration opportunities with the ISSIP community. For those interested, it …

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Madni (2018) Transdisciplinary systems engineering. Azad Madni‘s 2018 book on Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering is a seminal contribution to scholars of transdisciplinarity as well as to initiatives that aim to promote “transdisciplinary thinking” about complex socio-technical systems. A few extracts are provided below: Our 21st Century World (Page 1): “The twenty-first century is already a century …

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HICSS-55 Minitrack: Case studies of Artificial Intelligence, Business Intelligence, Analytics Technologies for Industry Platforms See agenda below Thank-you all again – really enjoyed hosting the session on behalf of Maarit and Pekka. 1. Recording of our session posted to ISSIP.org YouTube – here.2. Papers of our session – here.3. Please plan to submit papers to …

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At the dawn of a golden age of service working from home, with same or next day delivery, online education, online doctor visits, individuals have an incentive to buy a great diversity of service and product offerings. Products render service when used in a context, so we focus on service and service innovations. Some individuals, …

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October 4th talks by Wigderson (Computational Complexity), Paige (Model-Driven Engineering), Spohrer (Service Science and AI). For more details on the event happening 7am-10am PT USA , download the poster: ALAN HARTMAN RETIREMENT SEMINAR MONDAY, OCTOBER 4THZOOM MEETING 17:00 – 17:05: Welcome: Professor Tsvi Kuflik17:05 – 17:10: Opening: Professor Alan Hartman 17:10 – 17:20: Professor Irit …

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