Internet-of-Everything and the Future of Service

By Darima Fotheringham Two weeks ago I attended Frontiers in Service, (#frontiersinservice) a global conference on service research. This year, the conference was sponsored by IBM and a lot of discussion was around the Internet-of-Things (IoT) or Internet-of-Everything, as it was frequently referred to. One of the presentations that I found especially interesting was by Irene Ng, …

Thoughts on Summer 2013 Services Conferences

by Mary Jo Bitner At QUIS reception in Karlstad. Above, left to right: Dr. Laurel Anderson (ASU), Dr. Mary Jo Bitner (ASU), Dr. Inger Roos (Karlstad University). Below, left to right: Dr. Paul Fombelle (Northeastern University), Daniele Mathras, PhD Student (ASU), Jon Engstrom, PhD Student (Linkoping University).  Summer is “conference season” for those of us in …