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Students who complete the Managing Technology and Innovation Concentration are eligible to have the Concentration noted on their transcripts (please see the Bulletin for the list of requirements). Take advantage of this focused set of courses to deepen your overall understanding of: the innovation context, organizing for innovation (both large firm issues and start-ups), the process of innovation (team and project management), and systems design.
These courses will better prepare you to engage with the Santa Clara University technology and innovation community. Relevant University organizations include: the Leavey School of Business’ Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship; the SCU Center for Science, Technology, and Society; SCU's Tech Law Forum; and especially, the student-run Entrepreneurs’ Connection.
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Managing Technology and Innovation Today I am the MTI Concentration Advisor and host this blog to keep SCU Technology and Innovation students connected with current events related to the Concentration, and to events of general interest to our community. I also host a personal blog focused on technology and organizations. Welcome.
Prof. Terri Griffith, Management Department
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Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 9:25 AM
The following is from Aryng's founder, Piyanka Jain. She is providing a three day training (for fee) that will bring you up to speed on Analytics and the basics of Big Data. I will be attending as much of the presentation as possible:
Here is a little bit more about our upcoming Analytics workshop in San Francisco from Feb 22-24th.
http://www.aryng.com/landing/Feb-Business-Predictive-Analytics-Workshop.html. We are seeing Analysts, Business Intelligence managers, Operations professionals, Marketing and Sales Professionals, Product professionals, along with mid to high level executives (CEO, Director, VP, Head of...) in our workshops.
...San Francisco Chronicle news article on how Aryng’s training is addressing the analytics talent gap: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/01/31/prweb9153008.DTL
Here is a quick video on why Analytics fails and how we solve for it. Please do forward it to your students who may be interested in learning about how to drive decisions based on data. We can do special discounts for group attendance.
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Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 4:20 PM
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Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 4:14 PM
Letter from Engineering School Dean, Godrey Mungal:
Dear Campus Community,
Over the next two years, undergraduate students from the School of Engineering, College of Arts and Sciences, and Leavey School of Business will collaborate (along with peers from the architecture department of the University of San Francisco) to design and build a net-zero energy house for the prestigious international competition. More information in the University press release.
Hearty congratulations to Tim Hight, associate professor of mechanical engineering and faculty project leader, Fr. Jim Reites, associate professor of engineering by courtesy, and the solar decathlon student team who have been working in earnest for the last several months to prepare their proposal which was submitted in November.
SCU students who are interested in joining the 2013 Santa Clara Solar Decathlon team may email Dr. Hight, thight@scu.edu, or Jake Gallau, jgallau@scu.edu.
This is a tremendous honor for the University and an unparalleled opportunity for our students to put their talents, education, and heart to work on an enormous interdisciplinary project. As you can imagine the PR has already started so you may watch our students on NBC at:
You will also notice that the California schools in the Decathlon are: Caltech (2nd time), USC (1st time), Stanford (1st time) and SCU (3rd time).
Let the games begin!
Sincerely,
Godfrey
"Engineering with a Mission"
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Saturday, Jan. 21, 2012 5:51 PM
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Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012 9:51 PM
Email from CSTS:
I would like to follow up on an email that you received Friday, January 6 to remind you of the upcoming deadline for juniors in your department to apply for the Global Social Benefit Fellowship. The Center for Science, Technology, and Society has launched this opportunity for juniors to work in the field with our network of social entrepreneurs, alumni of our GSBI™. This fellowship will provide your students a terrific opportunity to learn how technology is benefitting humanity through social entrepreneurship.
The Global Social Benefit Fellowship integrates community based learning and research. The research can be applied toward a fellow's senior thesis or capstone project. The fellowship is open to juniors in all majors. It requires a sustained, year-long commitment, roughly equivalent to a minor.
Fellows will:
The deadline is January 26, 2012, and we encourage you to recommend your best students for this fellowship and have them attend one of the three Student Information Sessions scheduled as follows:
-Monday, January 9, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Center for Science, Technology, and Society Conference Room, Nobili Hall
-Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 4:00 pm, Lucas Hall 125
-Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at Noon
Center for Science, Technology, and Society Conference Room, Nobili Hall
Please have students RSVP to Keith Warner at kwarner@scu.edu. Also if you have students you would like to recommend, please send Keith their name and email address.
I am particularly pleased that the Center can now work more closely with you as a faculty member in mentoring SCU students in social entrepreneurship with science and technology. I believe this fellowship can provide the students in your department a life-changing experience by working with these terrific societal change-makers.
Wishing you a Happy New Year!
Sherrill
Sherrill Dale
Director of Operations for Social Benefit
Center for Science, Technology, and Society
Santa Clara University
skype: sherrill.dale
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Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 8:10 AM
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Friday, Dec. 2, 2011 5:04 PM
Student prices - great location:
From PARC description:
"The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB), the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the MIT Enterprise Forum, is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology, and people. VLAB provides a forum for San Francisco and Silicon Valley's leading entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capitalists, private investors, and technologists to exchange insights about how to effectively grow high-tech ventures amidst dynamic market risks and challenges.
Since "networking can be a drag", VLAB is hosting an informal, thought-provoking, fun holiday networking event at the festive Neiman Marcus, which will be closing early so VLAB can showcase R&D technology in a private environment. register here"
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Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 10:49 AM
The SCU Executive Developement Center has created a LInkedIn Group to run in parallel with its Facebook page.
These are both great ways to build your Santa Clara network. They are also great ways to keep in touch with the latest in executive develpment. Share courses with your team and management, interact with executives from other companies. Build on your solid SCU foundations.
Join and be active today.
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Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011 10:46 AM
Cut and pasted from their LinkedIn post:
Tesla Motors is looking for an intern in the Logistics Department. The intern position is for 3 months starting immediately (preferably, if not a start date of early January). This individual is very entrepreneurial in spirit, really smart and ready to get to work, and who is very interested in working at Tesla. They will need to have an interest in purchasing, finance, shipping, and lots of data analysis.
Currently, there is no a formal job description, but any Master or MBA students who are very interested in Tesla would be great.
Please contact Gigi with your cover letter and resume.
Gigi Masarie | University Programs Coordinator
gmasarie@teslamotors.com
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Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 9:30 AM
I received this from Dan Aguiar about the VCIC competition: "We are seeking two start-up companies that are seeking venture funding to participate. It is a fun competition for the MBA students and an opportunity for the participating start-ups to meet several Venture Capitalists who serve as the judges for the competition. The internal competition is on November 12th."
Contact him at daguiar@scu.edu
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Wednesday, Sep. 28, 2011 7:36 AM
Some free student tickets still available!
From the President's Speaker Series site:
Since 2005, Paul Otellini has been president and CEO of Intel Corporation.
Since joining Intel in 1974, Otellini has managed several Intel businesses, including the PC and server division and global sales and marketing. He has been a member of Intel's board of directors since 2002.
Otellini received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco in 1972, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Otellini serves on the board of directors of Google Inc. He also serves on the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
For more info: http://www.scu.edu/visitors/speakerseries/2012/index.cfm
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Monday, Sep. 19, 2011 6:52 PM
The most demanding IT organizations in the world rely on BMC Software to manage the IT systems that enable their Internet businesses, global supply chains, customer support operations and back office functions. We're a leading provider of enterprise management solutions and we're looking for great students who want to intern in an innovative, fast-paced, high-energy environment.
Our Information Services & Technology (IS&T) organization is currently seeking innovative and solution driven [OMIS, MSIS Computer Science, Business, and MTI Concentration] (Bachelors and Masters) for multiple 2012 summer internships. Get exposure and real experience through one of BMC's internship roles! These roles are available in the challenging and opportunistic areas of:
- Cloud
- Mobile Application Development
- Security
- Collaboration
- Business Intelligence
In BMC's internship program, you will be given valuable and meaningful projects that will provide you with real world, hands-on experience and will allow you to develop and grow in your area of interest. Don't worry, you won't be on your own! BMC will partner you with a Manager that will give you exposure to the business. We will also partner you with a Buddy that is an expert in their area and who will guide you in your projects. Throughout the program, you will also be invited to information sessions with BMC’s CIO and also leaders from Enterprise Architecture, Finance, Marketing, Product Management and Product Development so you will have a full understanding of BMC and learn more about the industry that we operate in.
Visit www.bmc.com for more information about BMC or contact Amy Curiel, amy_curiel@bmc.com, to learn more about BMC's exciting internship program.
[They have offices in San Jose as well as their main offices in TX]
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Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 10:08 PM
From the website: "This one-day event will build on the momentum of The Center for Science, Technology, and Society's Global Social Benefit Incubator and The Tech Museum's Tech Awards program to bring examples of successful social entrepreneurship to the wider Silicon Valley community. Based around interactive panel discussions, the agenda will focus on providing tangible examples from entrepreneurs who have built their social ventures into self-sustaining organizations that provide real, on the ground impact to those living in systemic poverty. To further enhance the program, the audience will have an opportunity to hear from the 2011 Tech Awards laureates who represent cutting-edge technology benefiting humanity in the areas of Education, Equality, Health, Economic Development, and Environment.
FREE - World renowned speakers
Registration & more information
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Thursday, Sep. 15, 2011 3:18 PM
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Wednesday, Sep. 14, 2011 5:24 PM
See the following from SCU's Center for Science, Technology, and Society:
The Willem P. Roelandts and Maria Constantino-Roelandts Grant Program
in Science and Technology for Social Benefit
Request for Proposals
Areas of interest to the CSTS include, but are not limited to, research, development, or application of science and/or technology for social benefit, broadly conceived. Sustainable, clean technologies and mobile health applications are of particular current interest to CSTS. For information about the application process go to www.scu.edu/socialbenefit/education/Roelandts. Or download the faculty RFP directly here. The deadline is Friday, October 14, 2011.
The Roelandts Grant program is also available to Upper division and graduate students. The Center will fund projects in amounts of up to $2,000 each for single investigators and up to $3,000 for teams of investigators. It is anticipated that four to six awards will be made. If you know of students conducting research in these areas, please refer to them to www.scu.edu/socialbenefit/education/Roelandts. Or download the student RFP directly here.
If you have any questions regarding the application criteria, please contact Keith Warner ( KWarner@scu.edu)
Thank you,
Center for Science, Technology, and Society
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Friday, Aug. 12, 2011 9:30 AM
They are interested in partnering. More information here.
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Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011 8:29 AM
Featured Guest:
Michael Raynor
Innovation: Minimizing failure or maximizing success?
Register here
For too long, our pursuit of successful innovation has often focused on minimizing failure. We think of a successful innovation as a needle-in-a-haystack quest. Because we typically don’t know how to increase the odds of success, we seek to “fail fast,” be “lean,” and “iterate.”
We can do better. In a series of experiments using a portfolio of 48 businesses funded by a high-tech company’s new business arm, Michael Raynor of Deloitte Consulting LLP shows that Disruption Theory can increase predictive accuracy by up to 50 percent, in his new book The Innovator’s Manifesto. The implication is that it is possible to identify winning ideas at the earliest stages of development and shape them in ways that can increase the likelihood of long-term survival.
Raynor will describe his research, explain how Disruption can enable more accurate prediction, and outline the implications for how we can manage innovation to take advantage of these insights.
Bio
Dr. Michael E. Raynor is a Director with Deloitte Consulting LLP. He works with senior executives in the world's leading corporations across a wide range of industries. He is the author of two bestselling and critically acclaimed books, The Innovator's Solution, co-authored with Clayton M. Christensen, and The Strategy Paradox. His third book, the forthcoming The Innovator's Manifesto, demonstrates that the careful application of the right theory improves overall innovation success rates. Michael lectures widely, delivering over 100 major presentations and workshops around the world each year. He is a columnist for The Conference Board Review, and publishes in leading magazines and scholarly journals. Dr. Raynor holds a DBA in General Management from the Harvard Business School, an MBA from the Ivey Business School in London, Canada, and a Philosophy degree from Harvard University. He lives in Mississauga, Canada.
Pre-order The Innovator's Manifesto and get it autographed at the event!
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Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011 9:44 PM
2011-2012 Speakers
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October 6, 2011
Mayer Theater, 7:30 p.m.
Since 2005, Paul Otellini has been president and CEO of Intel Corporation.
Since joining Intel in 1974, Otellini has managed several Intel businesses, including the PC and server division and global sales and marketing. He has been a member of Intel's board of directors since 2002.
Otellini received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of San Francisco in 1972, and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley in 1974. Otellini serves on the board of directors of Google Inc. He also serves on the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
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January 26, 2012
Mayer Theater, 7:30 p.m.
In 1976, Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Computer Inc. with Wozniak’s Apple I personal computer. The following year, Wozniak developed the Apple II personal computer, featuring innovations such as a central processing unit, a keyboard, color graphics, and a floppy disk drive. The Apple II was integral in launching the personal computer industry.
On the heels of his success with Apple, Wozniak chose to finish his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. For his contributions to the field of personal computing, Wozniak was awarded the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States in 1985, the highest honor bestowed on America’s innovators.
In recent years, Wozniak has focused on education and philanthropy. He founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and was the founding sponsor of the Tech Museum, Silicon Valley Ballet, and Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. Wozniak also adopted the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of technology equipment.
Wozniak currently serves as Chief Scientist for Fusion-IO and released his best-selling autobiography, iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon, in 2006.
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April 5, 2012
Mayer Theater, 7:30 p.m.
James McLurkin is an assistant professor at Rice University in the Department of Computer Science where he has taught since 2008. His primary research involves creating the software for large swarms of autonomous robots.
McLurkin was inspired by the behavior of ants and bees in the creation of “SwarmBots,” which perform individual tasks that contribute to the goals of the group. The SwarmBots were originally created during his five-year post as lead research scientist at iRobot.
As a graduate student, in 2003 McLurkin was the recipient of the Lemelson-MIT student prize for invention. He holds a S.B. in Electrical Engineering with a Minor in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T., a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley, and a S.M. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from M.I.T.
Since completing his undergraduate degree from M.I.T. in 1995, he’s lectured at universities and companies, while also teaching students from elementary to graduate school in an effort to instill a passion for science and engineering in people of all ages.
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Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 3:31 PM
4 August 2011
5:30-7:00pm
From the PARC Forum Website:
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Every 50 years or so a new body of technology comes along and slowly transforms the economy. Can such a transformation be happening today? And if so... how does it work?
Brian Arthur -- an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, pioneer of complexity theory, and longtime PARC Visiting Researcher – will attempt to answer these and other questions in this PARC Forum talk.
Digital technology runs deeper than merely providing computation, internet commerce, and social media. It is silently creating a second, unseen economy that is deeply interconnected, invisible, self-configuring, and intelligent -- and this, he argues, is changing the ways business and the economy are structured.
presenter(s)
W. Brian Arthur is an External Faculty Member at the Santa Fe Institute and Visiting Researcher at PARC.
Arthur pioneered the modern study of positive feedbacks/ increasing returns in the economy -- in particular, their role in magnifying small, random economic events -- and this work became the basis of our understanding of the high-tech economy. Arthur is also one of the pioneers of the science of complexity.
His most recent book is The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves, in which he argued that technology is self-creating (though it requires human agency to build it up and reproduce it) and evolves much like organisms evolve (though radical novelty in technology cannot be explained by the Darwinian model of variation and selection, and instead arises by combining existing elements).
Arthur was the Morrison Professor of Economics and Population Studies at Stanford University, and the first director of the Economics Program at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico. He earned his Ph.D. from Berkeley in Operations Research and has other degrees in economics, engineering, and mathematics including two honorary doctorates.
Among his many honors, Arthur received the Schumpeter Prize in economics and the Lagrange Prize in complexity science.
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Wednesday, Jul. 20, 2011 7:52 AM
Hope to see you here:
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Most startups fail... but many of those failures are preventable. This is just as true for one person in a garage as it is for a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom, since Eric Ries defines a "startup" as any organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
In an age when companies need to innovate more than ever, Ries provides a scientific approach to penetrating the fog of uncertainty to discover a path to a successful, sustainable business.
The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, the Lean Startup approach relies on "validated learning," rapid scientific experimentation, and a number of counter-intuitive practices that:
- shorten product development cycles
- measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics
- learn what customers really want
- enable a company to shift directions with agility -- altering plans inch by inch and minute by minute, rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans.
The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs -- in companies of all sizes -- a way to test their visions continuously, to adapt and adjust the way their companies are built and new products are launched... before it's too late.
presenter(s)
Enterpreneur Eric Ries is the author of the popular blog Startup Lessons Learned and upcoming book on Lean Startups. He co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU, his 3rd startup... and has had plenty of startup failures along the way.
An Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, Eric has advised a number of startups, large companies, and venture capital firms on business and product strategy. His Lean Startup methodology has been written about in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Business Review, the Huffington Post, and many other publications.
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