KSRI Mission: Rudi Studer (KIT, Germany) wrote about KSRI. The Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) develops concepts, methods and technologies for innovators and decision makers, to generate and utilize economic value in a more and more “services-led economy”. We are employing a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to solve business relevant problems along the dimensions “people”, “organization”, …
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 …
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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The Sacramento Business Journal (7/16, Johnson) reports, “Local engineering students should feel hopeful from a national finding released Thursday that recent engineering graduates are earning the top pay among the college class of 2010.” The summer 2010 salary survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that “engineering degrees account for four of …
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Where We are Losing: The 2010 State of the Future report has just been released by the Millennium Project (http://www.millennium-project.org). I urge you all to read it soon. I especially think the service science community needs to engage in understanding where we (as an instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent planetary community) are losing: fewer people voting, …
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Universities as Urban Community Leaders: The Indispensable University is a new book by recently retired Virgina Commonwealth University President Trani…. “The Indispensable University asserts that higher education is undergoing a ‘major transformation that is fundamentally redefining the relationship of colleges and universities to the broader community. This transformation is occurring at every level of higher …
Studying Engineering Before They Can Spell It: NYT FRONTPAGE, By Winnie Hu (June 14, 2010) To compete in a global economy, some school districts are offering engineering lessons to students in kindergarten. “…the big bad wolf had to do more than just huff and puff to blow down the three little pigs’ house. To start, …
Shared Service, Shared Governance Example: We know universities have libraries and most cities have libraries as well… often many of the same journal and books, but different software and systems…. So one of the very practical examples of “shared governance and share service” between city and university that is possible is the shared library…. Pioneering …
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How Big Is Our Ecological Footprint: The carrying capacity of Earth depends on the quality of service systems that exist. Here is a nice website and quiz to help build awareness of our ecological footpprint http://www.myfootprint.org/ Of course, “Our Ecological Footprint” is a classic book by Mathis Wackernagel (search Google books). There is a great …
Ovum Comments: New Skills and Service Science http://www.ovum.com/go/content/c,77654 Best Paper Award Health INFORMS: http://www.informs.org/Recognize-Excellence/INFORMS-Community-Prizes-and-Awards/Pierskalla-Best-Paper-Award Urban Dive Experience http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNnuFkMrMPM Earthmine (US Berkeley) collect-process-deliver pixel-level-accurate urban-maps http://www.earthmine.com US Dept ED SCANS http://www.arp.sprnet.org/default/curric/scans.htm Service Innovation (Netherlands) Rene van Buuren http://www.novay.nl/about-novay/22 Water Test Kits for Students http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.com/Test_Kits/Kits_Main.html Making Service Science Mainstream: http://www.servicefactory.aalto.fi/fi/wp-content/themes/default/Service_Science_Summit_White_Paper.pdf Executive Masters in Service Science (Switzerland) EMISS …