UCLA Anderson School of Management July 29-30

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Service Industrialization and the Global Information Economy

http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x36372.xml

This conference addresses the technology driven transformation of information intensive services through the process of “industrialization”.  Since every organization can be thought of as a bundle of services, and since all industries involve information intensive services, industrialization is taking place inside companies as well as across all industry sectors without exception.   This is a very substantial change that affects every industry sector and every company down to the level of individual jobs and tasks.

The themes of the conference include services, technology, strategy and globalization.  The industries that are impacted include perhaps every possible known sector including Healthcare, Entertainment-Media, Energy, Defense, Financial Services, Telecommunication, High-tech, Retail and many others.

MINDSET employers want: Global, Good and Grit

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go to yahoo finance story:  http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/3gs-mindset-over-skill-set-critical-landing-job-125910227.html?nc

 

the 3 G’s

Global: This is the big picture perspective. It is your ability to lift your eyes out of the weeds, look at the world and understand the ripple effect of your actions.

Good: This is the sensitivity to people and awareness of and the inkling to do good for others around you.

Grit: This is the intestinal fortitude, that uncommon tenacity, intensity, resilience in everything that you do.

Watson earns WEBBY award

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Watson is Webby Person of the Year

The Webby Awards

The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web’s infancy, the Webbys are presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 750-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals.

http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/watson-for-a-smarter-planet/index.html

Free IBM RedGuides about Smarter Planet topics

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This IBM® Redguide™ publication is the first paper in the Smarter Cities™ Series of Redguide publications. This particular guide provides insight into the IBM Smarter Cities vision and explains how information and technology can help make cities smarter. It focuses on the foundation that is used to build a smarter city. It also explains how data and information found at all levels of the city are critical to understanding and making good decisions for the city and its citizens. This guide delves into the issues around data including the sharing of information and ensuring that individual and business data is secured. It also provides a high-level architecture and ideas that will help in the transformation of cities.

see this web site:  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4733.html?Open

AND MORE…

This series of Redguide publications is intended for IT architects and city officials who are interested in identifying ways to make their city smarter. This series includes the following guides, which will be available soon:

  • Smarter Cities Series: Introducing the IBM City Operations and Management Solution, REDP-4734
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Efficient Buildings, REDP-4735
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Water Management, REDP-4736
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Traffic Management, REDP-4737
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Public Safety, REDP-4738
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Energy Innovation, REDP-4739

 

Luxembourg, 5-7 September, international workshop

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As part of the IEEE Commerce and Enterprise Computing (CEC 2011) event this September there are several workshops.  We call your attention to the workshop on “Convergence of Business Architecture, Business Process Architecture, Enterprise Architecture and Service Oriented Architecture“.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: June 15, 2011
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2011
Camera-Ready copy due: July 10, 2011
Conference and Workshop program: TBA

Service Oriented Systems Engineering conference Dec 12-14 CFP

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The 6th IEEE International Symposium on

Service-Oriented System Engineering

December 12-14, 2011,  Irvine, CA, USA

Collocated with SOCA, KSEM, RTSOAA and KASTLES

Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society;

Co-sponsored by: Arizona State University, San Jose State University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Oxford Brookes University, University of Leeds.