Center for Advanced Study in Enterprise Engineering and Management (Call for Proposals): The IBM Portugal Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) in Enterprise Engineering and Management (EEM) aims at being a preeminent applied research center of excellence in Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME), dedicated to foster collaboration among academia, industry, government, and IBM Research Laboratories, transfer scientific breakthroughs and innovations into IBM research… http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~ibmcas/ Currently, they have a Call for Proposal for Individual Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Grants http://paginas.fe.up.pt/~ibmcas/announcements.html
Service systems – special districts
Governance Within The Lines: How many different types of service system entities exist in the world. From a service science perspective, it is important to know about the many, many different types of service system entities, because they can own property and take legal actions in the world in many different ways. From a governance perspective, we have heard of towns, cities, counties, states, and nations…. but what about special districts? http://www.csda.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=6&Itemid=41 Counties provide many types of service to citizens, and special districts do as well – how are they similar and how are they different — who has made the best study of the different types of service system entities in the world and their rights? http://www.csac.counties.org/images/users/1/Services%20Provided%20to%20All%20County%20Residents.pdf
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 Unleash Innovation (WW) http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/07/how_reframers_are_unleashing_a.html
Book: Normann, Richard (2001) Reframing Business: When the Map Changes the Landscape. Wiley, Chichester, New Sussex
Agents at Your Service (MIT Press) http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/PBE/Your-Wish/
Systems Community of Inquiry (WW) http://syscoi.com/commons/
New Science Education Framework (US) http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_Homepage.html
Community of Academic Technology Staff (US) http://cats.cdl.edu/
CA State Employee Pay (US) http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/
Management Science for the Knowledge Economy (US) http://www.basex.com
IBM Almaden has Tandberg Telepresence (US) http://www.tandberg.com/telepresence/
Cisco acquired Tandberg (US, Sweden) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns669/ttg.html
My dream (WW) High QoS Connections to All the Universities in the World http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php
Eco-city collaboration between Singapore and China
Tianjin Eco-city: Gloria Ng, who leads Service Innovation Practice, at the Institute for Systems Science at NUS Singapore told me about the Tianjin Eco-city collaboration between Singapore and China: “We aim to build an economically thriving, environmentally friendly, socially harmonious and resource-efficient city. The key concept underpinning the planning and development of the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is the “three harmonies” – man living in harmony with man, now and for future generations; man living in harmony with economic activities; and man living in harmony with the environment.” http://www.tianjinecocity.gov.sg/ She also mentioned that Singapore recently hosted the World Cities Summit: http://www.worldcities.com.sg/
Karlsruhe Service Research Institute
KSRI Mission: Rudi Studer (KIT, Germany) wrote about KSRI. The Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI) develops concepts, methods and technologies for innovators and decision makers, to generate and utilize economic value in a more and more “services-led economy”. We are employing a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to solve business relevant problems along the dimensions “people”, “organization”, “information” and “technology”. See http://www.ksri.kit.edu
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 http://www.acoste.org.uk
American Education Research Association (US) ISSS Roundtable may be forming contact Sue Gabriele https://www.aera.net/
Gabriele Educational Materials and Systems (US) http://www.gemslearning.com
International Society for Systems Sciences (US) http://isss.org/world/index.php
Intense Video promoting Non-Fiction Book (US) Social Media Finding from Jean Paul Jacob http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-i0faBPkY
Ocean Resources Sustainability (EU) Video Competition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTT9-xuWoMo
World Science and Engineering Academy and Society (WW) http://www.wseas.org
Student Engineering Exhibition (Pakistan) http://www.see2010.net/about_kiet.html
Qingdao Desalination Conference (China) http://www.desalination.biz/whatson/view_event.asp?id=124
Coro (US) Training civic leaders http://www.coro.org
Project Management (US) http://ilign.com/
International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets (India) http://www.isb.edu/ICSEM2010/
International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (Italy) ICAART 2011 http://www.icaart.org/
International Conference on Emerging Economies (India) http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/smfconf/
LinkedIn Group Service Science (WW) http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=149276
Silicon Valley e-Learning Foundation (US) http://www.svefoundation.org/
Masters of IT in Business for Service Sector (Singapore) http://www.sjs.smu.edu.sg
Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship (US) U Chicago, Booth School of Management http://www.chicagobooth.edu/entrepreneurship
Global Knowledge Initiative (WW) http://globalknowledgeinitiative.org
Technology, Investment, and Policy (US) University of Minnesota http://www.technoscan.com/
University of Pretoria Webcampus Blog for Students (South Africa) http://blogs.up.ac.za/esmwebcampus.php
Build Your Business (WW) http://www.smetoolkit.org
Governors Education Summits (US) http://www.achieve.org/Summits (as in http://www.corestandards.org/)
Irving’s Blog (US) http://blog.irvingwb.com/
Future of Higher Education (Australia) Ross Dawson https://deimos.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/BrowsePrivately/griffith.edu.au.3684852440
Perspective Balancer (US) http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/06/why-i-returned-my-ipad.html
SRII Global Conference (US San Jose) March 30 – April 2, 2011 http://www.thesrii.org/index.php/global-conference
SRII Global Conference Call for Paper http://www.thesrii.org/index.php/global-conference/2011-confernce-papers
My dream (WW) High QoS Connections http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php
Amazon and IBM are ‘cloud champions,’ report says
By Jon Brodkin — July 15, 2010 03:47 PM ET
Network World – Amazon and IBM are the “cloud champions” according to a new report, but Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Red Hat and VMware are also among the list of heavyweights in the emerging cloud computing field.
Amazon cloud uses FedEx instead of the Internet to ship data
All tech vendors are embracing the cloud. Even those that don’t provide public cloud services are fighting to become the top builders of infrastructures to support emerging cloud networks.
A new quarterly report from BTC Logic, an IT consulting firm, attempts to rank the top cloud players, and puts them into seven broad categories: cloud foundations, infrastructure, network services, platforms, applications, security and management.
BTC Logic claims Amazon and IBM are the “cloud champions” because they rank in the top five in four of the seven categories. The companies Microsoft, Google, Red Hat, Salesforce, Symantec, VMware, Citrix, EMC, Oracle, Level 3 and Cisco are deemed “cloud heavyweights,” one level below Amazon and IBM, because they rank highly in fewer categories.A third group of companies is listed merely as “cloud contenders,” and this group includes AT&T, Aylus Networks, Rackspace and SAP’s Business Objects division.
Neither Microsoft nor Google rank first in any of the seven cloud categories, but Google is second behind Salesforce.com in cloud applications and Microsoft is second behind VMware in cloud foundations. Cloud foundations refer to tools and software that make it possible to build cloud infrastructure.
BTC Logic says it is trying to help customers sort out the confusing mass of cloud vendors.
“The Cloud Computing marketplace still has a confusing array of vendors each promoting its own solution, and a steady increase in the number of new Cloud product and services,” the firm says. BTC Logic says its research shows that “enterprises will not significantly move applications and data into the Cloud until issues related to security, privacy, and data location (trust services) are fully resolved … [and] that enterprises want to retain more control over governance and have the ability to oversee applications and data running in a broad hybrid Cloud.”
IBM joined Amazon as a “cloud champion” by placing first in management with the IBM WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance, third in security (behind EMC/RSA and Symantec), second in platforms, and second in infrastructure.
Engineering Graduates Still See Highest Salary Offers.
The Sacramento Business Journal (7/16, Johnson) reports, “Local engineering students should feel hopeful from a national finding released Thursday that recent engineering graduates are earning the top pay among the college class of 2010.” The summer 2010 salary survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that “engineering degrees account for four of the five most highly paid majors among the college class of 2010,” with “petroleum engineers receiving the highest starting salary offer – $74,799. Chemical engineers were next at $65,628,” followed by computer science students, computer engineers, and electrical/electronics engineers. “While the salaries are high among the class of 2010, the average salaries actually lost ground for all but chemical engineering graduates, the association said.” A NACE official said, “Those high starting salary offers reflect the uneven supply and demand that exists for these graduates, even in the current economy.”
Where We are Losing: The 2010 State of the Future report
Where We are Losing: The 2010 State of the Future report has just been released by the Millennium Project (http://www.millennium-project.org). I urge you all to read it soon.
I especially think the service science community needs to engage in understanding where we (as an instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent planetary community) are losing: fewer people voting, more corruption, more green-house-gases, more homicides, higher temperature, more unemployment, and more terrorism. Both the carrying capacity of the planet and quality of life will be determined by the service systems we evolve and design as well as interconnect and don’t interconnect over the next century. A good summary of the report is the following interview at the Kurzweil website: http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-state-of-the-future
The Indispensable University
Universities as Urban Community Leaders: The Indispensable University is a new book by recently retired Virgina Commonwealth University President Trani…. “The Indispensable University asserts that higher education is undergoing a ‘major transformation that is fundamentally redefining the relationship of colleges and universities to the broader community. This transformation is occurring at every level of higher education, from community colleges, to comprehensive undergraduate schools, to research-intensive doctoral universities. And it is becoming an increasingly global phenomenon as universities around the world seek to redefine themselves in ways that will enable them to become significant actors in the modern, knowledge-based economy.'” http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/jun/13/ed-tas13-ar-105711/ Great cities and great universities is a vital partnership to be nurtured http://www.usucoalition.org/downloads/part4/great_cities_great_universities.pdf