Services Science, Engineering and Management Conference, at IBM Palisades, October 6-7
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John Murray, University of Dublin, Trinity College, "A Research Based Educational Intiative: The Institute for International Services Innovation"
May risk putting together old content
- Taylorism
- May want to be ahistorical
TCD 1582: undergraduate degree, with a moderatorship if honours
- Should be able to moderate specialists in their fields
- Should look to past, and replicate a few successes
Second industrial revolution: 1880-1890s, telegraphy, steel, automobiles
- Becames the canon of management literature, written by Chandler
- Perhaps another significant tipping point at work
Jim Quinn: Study of wholesaling systems in Europe
- Evolutionary view: most is global, mostly innovations in format and business models, across Europe and into the United States
Approach has to be to start with knowledge creation rather than teaching
- Dilemma: operating on different time scales
- Was in Copenhagen, working with TetraPak
- Is manufacturing becoming a service industry?
- Time scales, they want answers now
Case study inductive (which later becomes deductive), or action research (which isn't as common, but help people learn)
Ireland:
- One of most global countries
- Around 2000, export of products flattened out, and services grew
- Only 4 million people in Ireland, and per capita figures are misleading, but services is #13 in the world
Found Paul Maglio, phoned him, while Paul drove in his car
- If also had been driving in Ireland, would have been in the ocean
Origins of the institute is recognition of the service sector growth
- Sister institute studies globalization
- Irish Development Authority
- SSME, IBM Almaden and IBM Ireland
Model: research --> dissemination --> practice
- Research: Short term research, action research, to longitudinal research
- Dissemination: Master's, executive development
- Practice: Evolution of clusters, extent to which innovation in services is geographically sticky
Not just services, but it's multi-level, multi-disciplinary, multi-modal, but ONLY international services
See Ireland as a laboratory
Interested in talking with others who are doing similar work
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