1-3 December, Linköping, Sweden http://www.servdes.org/ The Nordic Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation, ServDes, is the premier research conference within service design and service innovation. The conference starts with an UnConference day December 1st, and continues with 2 days of research presentations, case presentations and workshops. All confirmed presentations of contributions can be found …
PICMET’11(Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology) Conference will be held in Portland, Oregon – USA on July 30 – August 4, 2011. The theme is “Technology Management for the Energy-smart World”. The thrust will be on the crucial role of technology management in making the right choices in evaluating, developing and managing …
Art & Science of Service 2011 Laura Smith • SERVICE SCIENCE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES For this year’s conference, we seek submissions that focus on the following topics as they relate to developing countries: – Service Design and Innovations – Service offerings and technology that remove barriers of access to information – Leveraging existing technology to …
Advancing the Grand Challenges of the National Academy of Engineering summit Los Angeles, October 6-8, 2010 at University of Southern California SPEAKERS
Service Wave Conference (Belgium) http://servicewave.eu/2010/ Submit Service Wave Abstracts (WW) https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=sw20100 T-shaped Professionals (Singapore) http://tinyurl.com/385p56e Getting Hired Team Communication Skills (WW) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A42Tab_bu6A&feature=related SD Logic and Service Science (IMM) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.indmarman.2010.06.031 Submit Service Science Abstracts (WW) https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=srii11 Technology Services World (WW) http://www.technologyservicesworld.com/ Artifact-Centric Service Interoperation (EU) http://www.acsi-project.eu/ Smarter Transportation (Australia) http://australia.betterplace.com/ Smarter Energy (Australia) http://www.energy.unimelb.edu.au/ Smarter Buildings …
Service in Emerging Economies (WW) Technology (including Information Communications Technology (ICT) and others) and new organizational forms can dramatically increase productivity in agriculture and manufacturing, but can it also enable higher skill, higher pay knowledge worker job opportunities. For example, entrepreneurship enabled by mobile communications and smart phones, for education, healthcare, and mitigation of corruption …
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The IBM & IEEE conference we called “Transforming Engineering Education; Creating Interdisciplinary Skills for a Global Environment” has now published it’s proceedings at the IEEE.org web site, on the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. This service is free to IEEE members. I have about 20 CD’s of the proceedings available to the first 20 people who …
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Some of the Amazing People I Know: Many people amaze me — let me give two examples — one outside IBM and one inside IBM. Outside IBM, one person who is a constant source of wonder to me for his energy and activities is Prof. Jay Kandampully Ohio State University, Professor of Services Management , …
Conference on Service Innovation (UK) London Business School Sept 22-23, 2010 http://www.msi.org/conferences/conferences.cfm?conf=109 IBM Almaden Institute on Health (US) http://www.almaden.ibm.com/institute SPLASH Health Modeling Project (US) http://www.almaden.ibm.com/asr/projects/splash Global Forces: An Introduction (WW) McKinsey Quarterly http://www.msi.org/conferences/conferences.cfm?conf=109 National Information Exchange Model (US) http://www.niem.gov/ Kuali Rice (WW) http://www.kuali.org/rice Bay Area Council (US) Focus economic development http://www.bayareacouncil.org/ Jobs and Policy Design …
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 …