City & university shared services

Shared Service and Shared Governance: Ever since I mentioned that the City of San Jose, CA and the university SJSU have shared service and shared governance of their libraries at the Martin Luther King Library in San Jose — I have been finding out that other places also/already do the same shared service and shared …

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Short takes – week of July 23

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 …

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Merging Service Systems: Shared Service and Shared Governance

Merging Service Systems:  Shared Service and Shared Governance, benefit from Upskilling Jobs and Strengthening Regional Identity :     When most people hear the word’s “shared service and shared governance” they hear “staff reductions” and political obstacles start emerging left and right.   In spite of this challenge, overcoming these political obstacles can lead to award winning results, …

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Fixing American Education panel

Fixing American Education Panel  http://vimeo.com/12472147 Videos available online On June 4, Arizona State University hosted a panel discussion in Washington, D.C. on the need for innovation in education. The purpose of the event was to advance an ongoing dialogue about new ideas and models for K-12 and higher education, and to highlight the model we …

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Center for Advanced Study in Enterprise Engineering and Management (Call for Proposals):

Center for Advanced Study in Enterprise Engineering and Management (Call for Proposals): The IBM Portugal Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Enterprise Engineering and Management (EEM) aims at being a preeminent applied research center of excellence in Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME), dedicated to foster collaboration among academia, industry, government, and IBM Research Laboratories, …

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Short takes week of July 9

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 …

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IAMOT

Academic Discipline Growth and Management of Technology (MOT): Prof. Yasser Hosni (US University of Central Florida) is the President of the International Association for Management Of Technology (IAMOT). He recently invited me to serve as a member of IAMOT’s Management of Technology Accreditation Board (MOTAB). Prof. Tarek Khalil (Egypt Nile University and US University of …

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In search of the most innovative MBA student team in the world:

In search of the most innovative MBA student team in the world: More and more student competitions are a way to align university, industry, and government on important themes.   Singularity University is producing a lot of interesting project plans with the goal of creating projects that could change the world (http://singularityu.org/programs/graduate-studies-program/gsp-09/team-projects/) Winners of competitions may …

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update 1 July – Australia, Greece, Smart and more

Service Science in Australia: Andrew Dingjan (Australia CSIRO), who is the CSIRO Services Science Network Leader and General Manager, Business & Commercialisation, recently ran CSIRO’s first Services Science Network conference … I was able to join via telepresence, and the event website should be available soon. Hossein Zadeh (Australia RMIT) and Jay Hannon (Australia IBM) …

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updates – Japan, India

Japan Service Science. Yuriko Sawatani, Fellow, Service Science, Management and Engineering, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) recently provided me with an update on JST’s approach to developing a theory of service systems as well as improved service system implementations.  Many proposals are currently being evaluated for funding. Aligning universities, cities, and IBM to promote …

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