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ISSIP Ambassador Updates Antonio Padovan (ISM) shared event International Conference on Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing (ISM 2021) starting next week, interested ISSIP community members can participate virtually. Feel free to give a look at the conference full program and the guidelines to participate free of charge as Online Observers. ISSIP annually recognizes best paper awards …
Reminder “The Duke” is now Thursday nights 5-5:30pm PT in person or online (switched from Fridays to Thursdays for now). Today’s topic Stellar (payment network) *, and Blockchain as a foundational technology (Iansitti & Lakhani 2017, IWB Blog 2021). * “Ukraine’s governing body passed a law concerning payment services that mentions the future CBDC as …
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 …
Humankind: A Hopeful History By Rutger Bregman, Dutch historian Bregman’s Humankind is the best book that I (Jim Spohrer) have read so far in 2021. If you want to be challenged to re-think people, this is THE book. It is a New York Times bestseller. If you have read Harari’s “Sapiens”, then Bregman’s “Humankind” is …
Michael Lewis’s “The Premonition: A Pandemic Story” is an excellent read for those with an interest in systems, especially dysfunctional service systems and institutions that fail to adequately protect the people they are designed to serve. The book is also an excellent read from the perspective of understanding the human-side of service systems, as Lewis …
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After retiring on June 30th, 2021, my first trip was back East to travel from Florida to Georgia to Virginia to Massachusetts to Maine, meeting family and friends along the way. While there are already many lessons learned, one is coming into focus. Each of us with a lifetime of experiences has the ability to …
While it is great to be 65 years old and ready to retire, I will certainly miss many IBM colleagues. So this post is to just share a few of many great memories, and lessons learned along the way: 1998 My first visit to IBM Research – Almaden was as an Apple DEST (Distinguished Engineer …
June 29 and June 30, 2021 – Register Here: https://skills4industry.eu/skills-industry Today, huge workforce change is underway: …accelerated by pandemic (online) and technology (AI). Historically, huge workforce change require education to change too:…{agriculture} to manufacturing transition required elementary school…{manufacturing, agriculture} to service transition required high school…{service, manufacturing, agriculture} to knowledge worker transition required university What’s next? …{knowledge, …
The following individuals are receiving ISSIP Knowledge Sharing – Eminence badges for their significant contributions to the June 8th, 2021 ISSIP Discovery Summit Future of Work Series- Hybrid Workplace: Opportunities After The Crisis Alex KassAnil DindigalDart LindsleyDavid StanfordGerhard GuderganKevin G CrowstonMichele GuelMini KhroadPK AgarwalTerri GriffithUlf VinnerasWendy BelluominiYassi Moghaddam Badge recipients can add this to their …
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Call for papers In addition to the HICSS Conference call for papers in Smart Service Systems Design (due date June 15, 2021) Please also consider this opportunity: Zurich Summit Call for Papers Smart Services Summit – Zurich, 22 October 2021 Smart Services supporting the new-normal Following on from the Summit in 2020, where the focus …