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Call for Chapters Book titled: “Engineering and Management of Data Centers: an IT Service Management Approach” Book series: “Service Science: Research and Innovations in the Service Economy” Springer-Verlag, London Ltd. BOOK’S OBJECTIVE: This book will cover essential, modern and emergent knowledge on the engineering and management of data centers. …
Lots of debates on breadth versus depth – but both are necessary…. http://www.fastcompany.com/52795/strategy-design http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/bruce-mau http://www.fastcompany.com/tag/nike-plus http://www.fastcompany.com/55581/business-design and http://darrennegraeff.com/the-importance-of-t-shaped-individuals/ http://rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2013/03/building-future-success-t-shaped-pi-shaped-and-comb-shaped-skills.html http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048733313001881 http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/learning_deeply/2015/07/breadth_and_depth_can_we_have_it_both_ways.html http://www.itbriefcase.net/fitting-to-the-t http://www.prconversations.com/2014/04/a-chicken-and-egg-conundrum-for-pr-careers/
Fundamental to service science is the development of approaches to measure knowledge value in business and society. Service science is still in an early stage of development, where simply counting the number of service system entities and their direct and indirect interactions is challenging. Nevertheless, the following readings can provide a primer for the interested …
Why ISSIP? Because the 21st century world needs T-shaped people. ISSIP has a focus on helping industry (institutional sponsors) find student teams to do smart service system innovation projects supervised by faculty, on topics of mutual interest. Through projects, ISSIP aspires to inspire the next generation of T-shaped service innovators (open innovators, X-prize type innovators …
Please consider submitting a presentation, paper, poster, or other proposal to the the T Summit 2016. T Summit 2016 will be at the prestigious National Academies building in Washington DC March 21-22, over 300 attendees are expected. More information is available at the T Summit website: http://tsummit.org FAQ: (1) What is a T-shaped person? A …
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For those interested in open deep question-answering – the following pointers from Jack Park may be of interest: ” Hi Jim, I am glad we got to cross paths today. Below are some links mentioned, and a few as reminders: [1] is my talk in Tokyo and Hokkaido about my project, originally called SolrSherlock, but …
This just came into my mail from Martin Wetzels: “Dear colleagues, Service researchers worldwide are experiencing exciting, remarkable and dynamic new times. The advent of digital technology allows the design of new services and changes the competitive environment rapidly. Mobile and location-based services are increasingly realizing their promise. Service organizations are evolving into …
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Faculty, Please see the questions/deadline below…. 1. HICSS conference Do you attend HICSS (Hawaii, Jan 5-8)? If so we have a session there on cognitive that you may find interesting. 2. IBM PhD Fellowship nominations Do you have doctoral students who have interned at IBM? if so, Oct 27th is deadline to nominate them …
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My weekly activities, include these two calls everyone with an interest is welcome to join. (1) Service Systems Innovation: Wednesday 10:30am ET/7:30am PT Smart, people-centered service systems: ISSIP Linkedin discussion + (service science website and weekly calls) and (2) Cognitive Systems Innovation: Thursday 10:30am ET/7:30am PT Cognitive systems: CSIG Linkedin discussion + (cognitive science website …
Everyone with an interest in service innovation – please join these weekly calls. (1) if you would like to listen, instructions below. (2) if you would like to present, please contact Prof. Haluk Demirkan (U Washington) to be scheduled – haluk at uw.edu ISSIP = International Society of Service Innovation Professional ISSIP Service Innovation Weekly …
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