Session on SSME by Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director-IBM Research

We take pleasure in inviting you for a session on SSME (Services Sciences, Management and Engineering) by Dr. Jim Spohrer, Director , IBM Research.

Date: 29th Jan
Venue: Dome 2
Time: 5.00 p.mThe schedule for the session is as follows:

1) Lecture by Dr. Jim Spohrer on Business & Socio Economic Value of SSME to ALL students and faculty members - 30 mins.
2) Proposal by Jim, Guru and Zaheer to launch and exclusive IBM Service Business Simulation Center at SPJIMR to the Executive and Academic Advisory Board of SP Jain - 40 mins.
3) Defining the scope and activities of the exclusive IBM-SPJIMR Service Business Simulation Center with Jim, Guru and the Executive and Academics Board - 20 mins.
4) Presentation of IBM SSME Education Materials and Software Tools under Academic Initiative License by Zaheer to the SP Jain Institute - 10 mins.

Profile of Dr. Jim Spohrer

CAREER HISTORY

IBM, San Jose, California (1998 - Present)

Director, Almaden Services Research (2003-Present)
- Established first services research group in IBM Research, and service science discipline
- Research Division Accomplishments (>$10M impact): CBM, IDG, BIW, EUS, SSME projects

CTO, IBM Venture Capital Relations Group (2000-2003)
- Co-founded group to establish win-win relationships with VCs, entrepreneurs, and IBM
Global Services

Functional Manager, Computer Science Foundations (1999-2000)
- Managed advanced user experience design group (HCI) as well as theory of computation
group (Theory)

Manager, USER Experience (HCI) Group (1998-1999)
- Managed web services, user-aware and context-aware information environments
(InformationInPlaces)

Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA (1989 - 1998)

DEST, Distinguished Engineer, Scientist, and Technologist (1996- 1998)
- Conceived and led Educational Object Economy (EOE) and WorldBoard initiatives

Program Manager, Authoring Tools & Titles (1993 - 1995)
- Managed authoring tools development, including SK8, Squeak, NSF/DARPA East-West
Consortium

Principal Scientist/Project Manager, End User Programming (1991 - 1992)
- Managed an co-invented KidSim/Cocoa

Senior Scientist, Business Learning Research (1989 - 1990)
- Developed intelligent multimedia learning systems: MrFixit (Boeing) and Role’m (Apple
Learning)

Verbex: Exxon Enterprises, Bedford, MA (1978 - 1982)

Senior Research Scientist (1978-1982)
- Speech recognition HW/SW based on Markov models of human speech

Cheers,
PRCom

Virginia Tech Contact Session - Dr. Steven D. Sheetz

We take great pleasure in welcoming Dr. Steven D. Sheetz.
Dr. Sheetz is an associate professor in ACIS department of Pamplin School of Business, Virginia Tech. He will be here along with us from January 28th to February 1st, 2008. He would be teaching " Advanced Database Management Systems " to the participants of PGDSM-MIT04.
His presence will indeed be a great opportunity for all participants of SPJIMR to interact and gain insight into his areas of expertise.

Spandan - SPJIMR Alumni Meet 15th December

SPJIMR annual alumni meet 'Spandan '07' is just round the corner :)

Details:
Date: 15th December 2007, Saturday
Time: 6 pm
Venue: SPJIMR auditorium, Bhavan's campus

Looking forward to meeting all PGDSM MIT seniors there!!

Cheers,
Manisha
(On behalf of PRCom)

Tum chalo...to Hindustan chale!

Making a mark at IIM I

Aasmaan ke Paar !!!

Team ‘Aasmaan’ comprising of Aparna Krishnamurthy and Ayush Kumar qualified for the finals of ‘Papyrus Marketing Paper Presentation’ contest conducted by IIM Indore in their annual fest Iris 2007 this year. The topic of the paper was – “How does shopper marketing complement consumer marketing”?

The team looked at the topic from all 3 perspectives – manufacturing, retail and the consumer. A short video highlighting the different shopper marketing practices captured the audience attention.

Finals: 30^th November, 2007

Venue: IIMI Indore

Other teams in the fray: IIMA, MICA, IIMK, IMI

For more info on the same, check

http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris-2007/index.asp

Team Urja does it again!

Ayush Kumar, Abhishek, Avdhut, Harsha and Manish of ‘Team Urja’ qualified for the second round of the B-plan competition Sanjeevani of Iris 07, conducted by IIM Indore.

Finals: 30^th November, 2007

Venue: IIMI Indore

For more info on the same, check

http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris-2007/index.asp

Cheers!!
Manisha

Team Saksham rocks at IMT Nagpur!

Yet another field conquered by the juggernauts of PGDSM-MIT04! The Team- Saksham (Aditya Kumar Singh and Shubham Arora) won the 'Battle of Naxos 2' at IMT, Nagpur. Aditya and Shubham competed with teams from IMT Nagpur, IMT Ghaziabad and IMI Delhi and stood 2^nd.

All students were asked to come up with an E-business model for Delphi. Team Saksham came up with a business model to capture a larger market share for Delphi. Aditya and Shubham stood through tough competition and stringent questioning and emerged victorious!

For further details, please refer to the following link: - http://www.milestone35-imtn.com/Event.html

Virginia Tech Contact Session - Dr. Donald E. Hatfield

We take great pleasure in welcoming Dr. Donald E. Hatfield.

Dr. Hatfield is an associate professor of Strategic Management in Pamplin School of Business, Virginia Tech. He will be here along with us from December 3rd to December 7th, 2007. He would be teaching "Strategic Leadership in Technology based Organizations" to the participants of PGDSM-MIT04.

His presence will indeed be a great opportunity for all participants of SPJIMR to interact and gain insight into his areas of expertise.