IEEE EDOC call for papers Submissions due 28 February 2011 Fifteenth IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2011) “The Enterprise Computing Conference” Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society (approval pending) and IEEE Communications Society (approval pending) 29.8.-2.9. 2011, Helsinki, Finland
AMCIS 2011 / August 4-7, 2011 / Detroit, MI, USA Information Technology Services & Sourcing Track CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Engineering and Management for IT-based Services Systems: a Systems Approach Mini-Track. AIM This mini-track pursues to advance our scientific knowledge (and on the current limitations and conflicts) on the Foundations of Engineering and Management for Service …
http://www.fek.su.se/en/NFF-2011—start/ 32 tracks including: 01. Perspectives on Service research The concept service has increasingly come to denote a perspective on value creation rather that a specific category of market offerings. Service research focuses not only on service companies but also on complex service systems. In this track we invite scholars in management, marketing, organization studies, …
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General Announcement and First Call for Papers The 8th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM’11) June 25-27, 2011 Tianjin, China http://ibs.nankai.edu.cn/ICSSSM11 Co-Sponsored by: IEEE SMC Nankai University The Chinese University of Hong Kong Tsinghua University National Scientific Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Hosted by: Business School, Nankai University, China
A new program is launched at Universita Milano Bicocca called Master of ICT Management. It looks like a pretty well-rounded program to me – technology subjects, business and PEOPLE!!
8-11 June, 2011, Beijing, China http://icir.bjtu.edu.cn/liss2011 Sponsored by the INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication) Hosted by Beijing Jiaotong University *************************************************************************** Information and communication technology has been providing a more effectively network infrastructure and development platform for the logistics and service operations. In order to meet the needs of consumers, …
ESD Faculty Position MIT Engineering Systems Division The MIT Engineering Systems Division (ESD) invites applications for a tenure track faculty position. ESD includes over 60 faculty, has the 4th largest graduate population of any department or division at MIT, and focuses on important global challenges: http://esd.mit.edu/about/strategic-report.html. This position will focus on applying engineering systems methodologies …
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Academic Bankruptcy By MARK C. TAYLOR Published: August 14, 2010 WITH the academic year about to begin, colleges and universities, as well as students and their parents, are facing an unprecedented financial crisis. What we’ve seen with California’s distinguished state university system — huge cutbacks in spending and a 32 percent rise in tuition — …
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Call for papers SRII (WW) Service Research and Innovation Institute www.thesrii.org Journal of International of Commerce, Economics, and Policy (WW) JICEP http://www.worldscinet.com/jicep/jicep.shtml International Conference (Thailand) Management of Engineering and Technology PICMET’10 http://www.picmet.org/new/Conferences/2010/ Technology and Information Management Program (US) UC Santa Cruz http://www.tim.ucsc.edu/ OECD Innovation Report (WW) Sustainable and greener growth http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/28/45326349.pdf US White House Innovation …
High schools face many challenges. First, the fluctuating high school drop out rate in the US (around 8-10% over all), especially in the largest urban areas (as high as 50% or more), is setting off alarm bells with many stakeholders. Part of the solution is universities getting more involved in high schools. Second, funding shortages …
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