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Short takes 10 August

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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 …

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Service in Emerging Economies conference

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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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TEE conference proceedings now available

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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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Amazing people

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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 , …

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K-12 panel & home schooling

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Home Schooling: In preparation for a K-12 education panel I will participate in, I was looking for some help to understand home-schooling in the Bay Area of Northern California (Silicon Valley)….   Marlene Turner, Associate Dean College of Business at San Jose State University helped by providing me with some perspective and then some pointers: “Getting …

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Short takes – week of July 23

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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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China top-rated universities

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China Top Ranked Universities: China has seen a huge surge in the number of students attending universities (http://www.asiaecon.org/exclusives/ex_read/19).   “As of right now, the number of students studying in Chinese universities has reached 25 million, which is an astonishing five-fold increase in only nine years, reported the Chinese Education Minister, Zhou Ji.”  The number of top …

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Fixing American Education panel

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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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ServiceWave 2010 Call for Workshops

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ServiceWave 2010  Call for Scientific Workshops ServiceWave 2010 solicits submissions for workshop proposals. The workshops will be held within the conference, December 13‐15 2010 at Ghent, Belgium. The main goal of the ServiceWave 2010 workshops is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange and interaction related to any of the conference topics, which include, but are …

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Short takes 7/19

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Disruptive Service Innovation Survey (UK) http://mbs.qualtrics.com/SE?SID=SV_6l1po7WlWGdNFti Grand Challenge Summit (UK)  Week of Sept 22 University of Cambridge http://tinyurl.com/26jzzu5 Annotated Service Science On-Line Bibliography (WW) http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/ssme/refmenu.asp Innovation in Large Service Systems (WW) http://www.cmu.edu/silicon-valley/ilss/ Hospitality 2.0 (WW) Service Design http://auroralahti.blogspot.com/2010/07/hospitality-20-intro-and-community.html Trillion Dollar Transportation Challenge (US) Churchill Club talk http://tinyurl.com/2cgv38q 2010 State of the Future (WW) http://millennium-project.org/millennium/SOF2010-English.pdf Reframers …

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