Short takes week of 7/19

Why We Need a Service Science Initiative (Wales) http://cs.swansea.ac.uk/SSI Take the Survey http://tinyurl.com/2etk5az Systems Thinking for Service Research (WW) http://www.sersci.com/ServiceScience//upload/12705660900.pdf Service Science Journal (WW) http://www.sersci.com/magazine/v2n1_2/ New Trends in Information Science and Service Science (Korea) http://www.aicit.org/niss/committee.html Global 250 Private Companies (WW) Always On http://tinyurl.com /2cxyx5e mart Connected Songdo (Korea) QoL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1x9qU-Sav8 Irrigation Infrastructure Policy (Australia) http://www.science.org.au/events/publiclectures/wm/crase.html …

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Short takes 7/19

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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Short takes week of July 16

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 …

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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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Short takes – week of 6 July

Shorts: Handbook of Service Science: http://www.springerlink.com/content/n820995328410k61/ Grand Challenge in Service (Cambridge UK 21-26 Sept 2010) http://www.ifm.eng.cam.ac.uk/service/events/serviceweek/ Andy Neely (UK Cranfield/Cambridge) AIM Research http://aimresearch.org/ Future Skills https://service-science.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/2010_02-IBM-SSME-final.pdf Citizens Collaboration & Co-Creation in Public Service Delivery (COCKPIT) (EU) http://www.cockpit-project.eu/ Ann-Charlotte Plogner (Sweden) provided a heads up on the Executive Management Group for Service Tourism Service – Paris …

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this week’s short takes

Shorts Takes: Minni Sarkka (Aalto University Finland) recommends Service Engineering and Management http://www.sem2010.tkk.fi/index.htm HICSS-44, Kauai, Hawaii (January 4-7, 2011) Service Science track http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_44/Minitracks44/dt-sersys.pdf AMA SERVSIG http://www.servsig2010.org/programme.html Portugal FEP Masters in Service Management Joao Pronenca: http://www.fep.up.pt/cursos/mestrados/mgs/DOC_10_11/GServi%C3%A7os_uk_10_net.pdf Stefan Holmlid, Interaction & Service Design, Linköping University http://www.ida.liu.se/~ixs/ Linköping University, Sweden will host the Service Design and Innovation Conference …

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