http://coevolving.com/blogs ... in Business Organizations and Information Technologies Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:56:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm migrating over to a Thinkpad T61, having last moved to a T41 in March 2005. Since research is core to my personal development, I've been diligent about preserving my digital files. My laptop stores documents created on a personal computer as early as 1994, with an archive of ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/easing-over-to-open-software-platforms/ As I've been doing research into service systems, I've reached my own conclusions about two blind spots in the current literature. 1. There continues to be a lot of debates about the distinctions (and non-distinctions) between services and products. From a systems perspective, I'm satisfied that the most important features ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/offerings-as-commitments-and-context-service-systems-from-a-language-action-perspective/ In summer 2006, I constructed a curriculum on International Service Business Management for a one-year master's program in Finland. Appropriate to the Finnish style, this content was assembled in rapid development. With a profile of students admitted mostly with technical undergraduate degrees and 5-to-10 years of working experience, the ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/business-models-and-evolving-economic-paradigms-a-systems-science-approach/ The science, management and engineering of service systems is associated with a call for T-shaped people. The most recent emphasis is on T-shaped professionals, which was preceded by T-shaped skills, with linkages back to a 1990 study on hybrid managers. Some insight can be gained by working backwards ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/t-shaped-professionals-t-shaped-skills-hybrid-managers/ On more than one occasion, I've heard IBM executives assert: The nature of innovation has changed. In the 21st century, innovation is open, collaborative, multidisciplinary and global. The ideas of open, collaborative, multidisciplinary and global appeared in the Global Innovation Outlook 2.0 report that was published in mid-2006. These words appeared ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/innovation-as-open-collaborative-multidisciplinary-global/ I normally focus on industrial and service businesses, but recently headlines on rising food prices have me looking into agricultural businesses. Here some statistics to ponder: the world's top 4 crops -- wheat, corn, rice and barley -- weigh more than the next 26 crops combined. The ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/world-diet-is-concentrated-on-a-few-cereal-grains/ In the interest of furthering a science of service systems, the language-action perspective may be relevant. Business-oriented researchers have an appreciation of the gap between what people say and what they do, but may not be familiar with the development of this framework coming from computer science. ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/conversations-for-action-commitment-management-protocol/ In the pursuit of gaining a stronger understanding of a science of service systems through systems science, I've been working my way through the works of Richard Normann, Rafael Ramirez and Johan Wallin. There's a long evolution of thought there, with a depth that may not be obvious to ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/coproduction-interactive-value-offering-value-constellation/ I had previously written that "the (new) service economy is not the same as the service sector". There's an deep problem in trying to define and measure something new, when we have to rely on government statistics that have an anchor point of 1980, 1971, or even 1945. ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/talent-in-the-new-service-economy-creative-class-occupations/ As Service Science, Management and Engineering (SSME) has been developing, I've noticed a refinement of language. Rather than just abbreviating the long clause to service science, I'm now careful to use the phrase of a science of service systems, following Spohrer, Maglio et. al (2007). There's a clear ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/science-of-service-systems-service-sector-service-economy/ In November 2007, Research Perspectives in Service Engineering and Management, Volume 1 was published. I've now posted a copy of my chapter on "Service Engineering and Management, Value Coproduction, and Situated Practices" online. The paper was the result of participation in the Service Engineering and Management Summer School at the ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/research-perspectives-in-service-engineering-and-management-volume-1/ I happened to be looking at the 2007 OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scorecard, and noticed a chart on "Growth Accounts for OECD Countries". I've never thought of a breakdown this way, so I was intrigued by the legend. We naturally think of labour inputs, and capital inputs, but I ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/ict-capital-and-the-services-sector-in-oecd-reports/ With the primaries in the United States making headlines, Americans have been making noises about revisiting NAFTA. Michael Hart and William Dymond provided a Canadian perspective1, with a global perspective on the larger trends. If our neighbours elect a Democratic president, Senate and House on Nov. 4, things could ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/value-capture-in-a-global-innovation-network/ The word coevolving as the domain name for this blog is based mostly on the idea that business organizations and information technologies continually develop in inter-related ways. From a systems perspective, it's worth checking the how the term is used more formally. To check on alignment, I obtained ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/coevolutionary-understanding-a-larger-system/ The "new economy" of the 21st century can be interpreted in many ways. One foreshadowing view appeared in 1973 with The Coming of Post-Industrial Society by Daniel Bell. It can take academics years to accumulate enough data as evidence of real societal change. I had seen some ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/the-new-economy-from-products-to-services-and-from-material-to-information/ Brian phoned yesterday, to ask if Adam could take a look at Jasmine's laptop. Adam wasn't in, so Diana suggested that he talk to me. Brian initially said that he didn't want to take my time looking at a PC with a potential virus on it. I told him ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/slaying-the-virtumonde-virus/ I've been pushing the 80GB limit on my Thinkpad for some time. I just noticed that XP seemed to accumulate a lot of temporary files in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\temp . I wasn't sure how to get rid of them, but found a program that makes it painless: ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/i-removed-2gb-of-temp-files-from-xp/ Activity on the web site for the International Society for the Systems Sciences happens in spurts. This past weekend, we got two major news items up: The formal announcement for 52nd annual meeting of the ISSS has been officially posted as July 13-18 at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/systems-sciences-next-year-and-retrospectives/ When I can't figure out where an author "is coming from", I look at the list of references. Sometimes, this leads to philosophy. The best way to learn philosophy is a slow path of discussion in a seminars. For people with less time, I've discovered the web ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/philosophers-squashed-discussed-and-read/ There are some who believe that innovation is driven by the genius of a creative individual. I prefer a more sociological approach, where innovation comes from individuals working together in groups. Not just any random group produces innovation, though. I like the interview with Ronald Burt in ... http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/innovation-cross-appropriation-social-practice-and-structural-holes/