Bruce Holland’s Strategic Snippet Is the Public Sector is going in the wrong direction? February, 2011 The purpose of this Snippet is to illustrate how bureaucracy and red tape may be driving the Public Service in the wrong direction. Indeed, because of unquestioned assumptions, government may be inadvertently designing failure into many things they do …
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Call for Participation – new deadline 2/23 4rdAnnual Symposium on Engineering & Liberal Education and Integrate to Innovate Faculty Institute June 3-4th, 2011 Union College, Schenectady, NY www.union.edu/integration Union College will host the fourth annual symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education this spring to continue the discussion of the rationale for and methods of integrating …
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Go here to read the article. at “Blogging Innovation” Paul Hobcraft runs Agility Innovation, an advisory business that stimulates sound innovation practice, researches topics that relate to innovation for the future, as well as aligning innovation to organizations core capabilities. Quote: “What are the disciplines required to be mastered? There is a real need to …
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See the abstract here Introduction of Service Systems Implementation Haluk Demirkan, James C. Spohrer and Vikas Krishna available at Springer of course
Japan’s S3FIRE (Service Science, Solutions and Foundation Integrated REsearch) Program http://www.ristex.jp/servicescience/EN/index.html In fiscal 2010, Japan’s Science & Technology Research Institute of Science and Technology for Society (JST RISTEX) organization established the Service Science, Solutions and Foundation Integrated REsearch Program. The aim of the Program is to identify the specific or latent needs of society and …
New Emerging Knowledge – Beyond Products: Transforming Through Service The CSL is focused on designing and conducting cutting-edge service(s) research that delivers both significant business and academic value. We are pleased to announce a new addition to our CSL website on the topic of “Service Infusion”. This emerging knowledge is focused on how to get …
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Temasek Polytechnic and IBM Collaborate for Smarter Education with an IT Service Management Centre The ITSM Centre will see 60 students, from the Diploma in Mobile & Network Services, groomed as techno-strategists graduate in 2012 Singapore, 5 January 2011 – Temasek Polytechnic (TP) and IBM Singapore today announced the launch of an IT Service Management …
http://www.soea4ee.org/ Workshop (to be held in conjunction with EDOC 2011 from 29th August to 2nd September 2011 in Helsinki, Finland. Topics for Discussion During the workshop we will discuss the following topics: 1. Alignment of the enterprise goals and strategy with the service-oriented enterprise architecture – Which interdependencies exist between services and business strategy? – …
2011 conference of the Swiss Institute of Service Science “Service Innovation in the 21th century – Opportunities for Swiss Enterprises”, is taking place in Berne, Switzerland, on Feb 28, 2011. The conference will create a platform for dialogue between industry, government, and universities. It will discuss – business and application related aspects of Service Science …
Hershey, PA – October 29, 2010 – IGI Global, an international publishing company specializing in high-quality research publications in the fields of computer science and information technology management, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the inaugural year of the International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (Editor-in-Chief Miguel-Angel Sicilia, University of …
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