Short takes 16 August

Food & Products (WW) IBM Smarter Food                                http://www.ibm.com/ibm/ideasfromibm/us/smartplanet/opinions/opinion_20081208.shtml Food & Products (US) Smart Clothes http://tinyurl.com/2duwrld Energy (US) http://www.pgsenergy.com/phone-seminar/E-101a/Fundamentals-Electric-Service-System/424 Energy (WW) Shale and Liquid Natural Gas Intro Course http://www.pmaconference.com/Shale-LNG-0810-PMA.PDF Energy (WW) IBM Rational Focal Point                                            http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/offers/lp/demos/summary/r-focalpointutil.html Comm/ICT (US) Silicon Valley Network http://www.aonetwork.com/ Comm/ICT (US) Future of Mobile Cloud http://tinyurl.com/35dr9rm Comm/ICT (US) Future of Augmented Reality http://tinyurl.com/2uekajb …

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Cities and the Future of Service

Cities and the Future of Service (WW) James Cortada (IBM) writes in Forbes (http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/28/cities-data-growth-ibm-leadership-citizenship-talent.html) : “For the first time ever, more than half of us are city dwellers. By 2050 that number will be 70%. We are adding the equivalent of seven New York Cities to the planet every year. This unprecedented urbanization is a …

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Short takes 10 August

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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Larson article on Shared Services

Shared Service (US) Prof. Richard C. Larson (MIT) has an interesting new OpEd in the Journal of Service Science on Shared Services: “Name three service sectors whose costs to customers have exceeded the rate of inflation by more than a factor of three: health care, higher education and some sectors of government. The public is …

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Short takes week of 7/30

Call for papers SRII (WW) Service Research and Innovation Institute  www.thesrii.org Journal of International of Commerce, Economics, and Policy (WW) JICEP http://www.worldscinet.com/jicep/jicep.shtml International Conference (Thailand) Management of Engineering and Technology PICMET’10 http://www.picmet.org/new/Conferences/2010/ Technology and Information Management Program (US) UC Santa Cruz http://www.tim.ucsc.edu/ OECD Innovation Report (WW) Sustainable and greener growth http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/28/45326349.pdf US White House Innovation …

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2010 IBM CEO Study

The CEO study is posted:  http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/ceo/ceostudy2010/index.html This year, IBM interviewed student (our future leaders!) from around the world. A couple of key points were: Students are at least twice as likely to focus on globalization and sustainability issues as CEOs Students see scarcity of resources as a challenge they will need to address during their …

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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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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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China top-rated universities

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

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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