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Call For T-Summit Book Chapters

Dear Colleague, As ISSIP BEP T-Summit Book Team, we are inviting scholars and professionals with expertise in all areas of T-shaped skills and knowledge for talent development to consider writing a short paper/chapter (around 2,500 to 3,500 words).  As we face ever-increasing challenges and complexity in the public and private sectors, Interdisciplinary collaboration skills distinguish … Read more

How to Prepare for the Future of Work and Careers

The T-Summit 2016, convened at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC March 21-22, 2016, was an ambitious undertaking to bring together government, industry and academia to,” maximize dissemination on the latest learnings of T-Shaped professionals, and how policies, curriculum, and student and employee behavior can prepare the future workforce.” The third annual conference … Read more

Rethinking Work in the Era of Smart Machines

We have entered the era of Smart Machines (Artificial Intelligence, powered by Cloud, Analytics, Social Networks and accessible through mobile devices and sensors) that provides great opportunity for individuals, communities, regions, countries and the planet; yet, it is disrupting traditional assumptions and beliefs about the certainty of organizations, employment, and the nature of work itself. … Read more

Call for Participation in the Education & Research SIG

The goal of Education & Research SIG is to provide an international forum in which interdisciplinary professionals, researchers and educators in service science and innovation can discuss, develop and promote theory-, policy- and practice-related issues and opportunities, can exchange ideas, tools, techniques, processes and applications for education and research, and can have life-long learning and … Read more

ISSIP’s Definition of "Service"

What do we mean by service? By Ralph Badinelli, PhD, professor in the Department of Business Information Technology of the Pamplin College of Business of Virginia Tech The service sector is by far the dominant part of the economy in the developed and developing world, yet the discipline of service science is still in its infancy. … Read more