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News
Business School research network secures additional funding from IBM
Professor Paton recently secured an IBM International Faculty Award, amounting to $30K, to further his research in the field of services science and innovation. This award is in addition to the $40K from IBM he secured in 2008.
New Visiting Professor from IBM
Chris Cromack CEng FIEE, a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Systems & Technology Group Transformation, has recently been appointed as a Visiting Professor in both the Department of Management and CSIRN. He hopes to contribute to the development of a services science curriculum and to contribute to programmes.
New courses
CSIRN launches two additional services innovation/science courses linked to the management of change: Managing innovative change and a revamped MBA module Managing Change.
CSIRN launches blog
In conjunction with Elsevier and the European Management Journal, CSIRN launches the Services Science and Innovation Blog. This will go live in March 2008 and run throughout the Services Science special series running in the EMJ from April 2008.
The 'Services Science and Innovation' blog is now live at: http://topics.scirus.com/Services_Science_and_Innovation.html
CSIRN in the news
Professor Robbie Paton and Dr Stephen McLaughlin were both quoted in an article that appeared in the Telegraph on Friday, 15 February. The article, which looks at the ways in which IT is coping with the shift to services, asks the question: “Why shouldn't it be possible to establish a discipline that applies rigorous scientific discipline to the problem of innovating in services?”
To read the full article, click here.
Special series to run in European Management Journal
In 2008 the European Management Journal (EMJ) will run a series of papers dealing with services science and engineering. The CSIRN team, with Professor Paton as guest editor, have sourced provocative and cutting edge papers from across Europe and the United states. The series will run throughout 2008 with one or two papers appearing in each edition of the Journal. In addition, the publisher Elsevier, will mount and host a ‘blog’ to encourage debate and assist CSIRN in establishing interest in the emerging discipline of services science and innovation. The hope being to report back to the EMJ readership, and beyond, on the reaction to and consequences of the series in mid 2009. In addition, the ‘blog’ will form the basic building blocks of a major international conference planned for late 2009.
The following link will take you to the draft opening paper: Services innovation: knowledge transfer and the supply chain
Appointments
Dr. Stephen McLaughlin was appointed as the CSIRN Adam Smith Research Foundation Fellow in January 2008.