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Kenneth E. Kendall ,Rutgers University, 2004 DSI Annual Meeting Program Chair A HEARTFELT THANKS to all of the DSI authors and session facilitators for your overwhelmingly positive messages about this year’s DSI Meeting to be held in Boston, November 20-23. Many of you expressed your appreciation that the preliminary program was online on July 3 so you could find inexpensive airfares this year. Your cooperation made it possible. Here’s some information about this year’s meeting. Program Schedule Overview This year’s Annual Meeting is bound to be a success. Since this year’s meeting will have considerably more sessions than the last few years, we’ll begin at 8:00 a.m. Saturday morning and continue until 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. In addition to the 1000+ regular paper presentations, there are numerous invited sessions and other special high-profile sessions including 45 workshops, 12 tutorials, 50 panels, and 25 symposia and colloquia. The program also includes a Curriculum Issues Miniconference, a Doctoral Student Consortium, a New Faculty Development Program, and a Technology in the Classroom Miniconference. Professional Development sessions will occur throughout the conference. You won’t want to miss the official DSI Fellows session “Operations Management History for Dummies: Some Key Developments in the Evolution of the Field.” Our first keynote speaker, Cormac O’Reilly, has been the CIO for Digital and CTO Wang Global. Cormac will speak to DSI about resetting corporate IT on Sunday at 10:00 a.m.Our second keynote speaker, Ron Swift, the VP of Strategic Customer Relationships for Teradata, will explain “How World-Class Companies Use Customer Knowledge and Analytic Business Intelligence for Increasing Profitability” on Monday at 10:00 a.m. Our final keynoter is James Womack, the co-author of two well-known and influential books: The Machine that Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production, and Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation. Jim will be speaking on Monday at 3:00 p.m. Social Events The Welcome Reception will still be held on Saturday evening, even though there will be 26 parallel sessions and meetings all day long. The Welcome Reception is one of the events that allow you an opportunity to network with colleagues old and new early in the Annual Meeting. Another social event everyone looks forward to is the networking lunch on Sunday. The President’s Reception will be held Monday evening, followed immediately by entertainment provided by Improv Asylum, voted “Best Comedy Club in Boston.” Their critically acclaimed performances develop comedic scenes on the spot. Every show is different, since the cast creates each show through audience input and suggestions. There will be great anticipation and some suspense on Tuesday when, during the President’s Luncheon, the winners of the Instructional Award Competition and the Best Case Studies Award are announced. (The Instructional Award Competition is scheduled for Sunday from 10:00 a.m. until noon and the Best Case Studies Award is scheduled on Monday from 10:00 a.m. until noon.) The 2004 Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award will also be presented at the luncheon. Three awards will also be given for the Best Application Paper, the Best Theoretical/Empirical Paper, and the Best Interdisciplinary Paper. For the first time in DSI history, awards will also be given for the distinguished paper in each track. There will be an extensive area reserved for exhibitors from publishing and software companies, and the excellent placement system will be available throughout the conference. For more detailed information about all of these events, you can check the conference Web site at: http://www.bus.ucf.edu/dsi2004. A Major Sponsor In addition to the generosity of numerous program sponsors, this year, for the third time, we also obtained the support of the SAP University Alliances and Innovation Institute. With SAP’s generous contribution to this year’s meeting, we again have LCD projectors available in every presentation room throughout the conference. As a result, presenters do not need to make prior reservations for the equipment. All you need to do is to bring your laptop, plug it in, and you are ready to go. Thanks to All of You I want to thank all of the individuals who wrote and will present their research papers; who created and will present the workshops and panels; who have served as paper reviewers and who will serve as session facilitators at the Annual Meeting. In the end it is your efforts and contributions that determine the quality of the meeting. Scott Sampson has once again done a great job in serving as program scheduling coordinator. This will be Scott’s last year in this capacity, so please join me in a round of applause for Scott. Christine Roundy, Scott’s able assistant, has also worked tirelessly to assist many Annual Meeting participants and to make sure that the schedule is accurate. Some of you have already taken the opportunity to thank Julie E. Kendall for editing the Proceedings. Julie has worked late into the early morning hours, examining each of the refereed papers you submitted, so that this year’s Proceedings would be consistent and accurate in appearance. Julie also served as coordinator for the Best Paper Awards. The judges were a committee of 20 DSI Fellows. The track chairs we had for this year’s meeting really came through. Some of them are experienced (including DSI Fellows and DSI past presidents), while others are relatively junior faculty who are destined for success in their respective fields. All are my friends. They are the greatest. Associate Program Chair Sameer Verma helped solved many problems when I was out of the country and Mihir A. Parikh, our Web site coordinator, has helped promote the meeting electronically. Hal Jacobs helped immensely by coordinating the information for Decision Line and for preparing the final program. I also want to thank Past President Barbara Flynn for appointing me to my position as annual meeting program chair. Most of all I want to thank the home office staff, especially Executive Director Carol Latta, without whose help there wouldn’t be an annual meeting. See You in Boston Please plan on joining friends and colleagues at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Decision Sciences Institute at the Marriott Copley Place. With more than 400 sessions addressing a wide variety of topics in virtually every business discipline, it will be both an exciting and educational experience. We’ll make sure you have some fun there, too!
Co-sponsored by CUBICORP (www.cubicorp.com), Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. The results of the Best Paper Awards are now final. A special committee made up of our Proceedings Coordinator, Julie Kendall, and no less than 20 DSI Fellows chose the following papers to receive the awards. Congratulations to the winners and thanks to the high-powered committee. BEST
THEORETICAL/EMPIRICAL PAPER BEST APPLICATION PAPER
BEST INTERDISCIPLINARY
PAPER Best Paper Awards Committee Charles P. Bonini
One paper from each track is selected as the distinguished paper of the track. Accounting: Theory, Applications and Practice Track (AC) DSS/AI/Expert Systems Track (DS) Ecommerce Track (EC) Emerging Information Technologies Track (ET) Finance/Financial Management Track (FI) Information Systems Track (IS) Innovative Education Track (IE) International Business Track (IB) Manufacturing Management Track (MM) Marketing: Theory, Models and Applications Track (MK) MS/OR: Techniques, Models and Applications Track (MS) Organizational Behavior/Organizational Theory Track (OB) Quality Track (QP) Service Management Track (SM) Statistics and Decision Analysis Track (ST) Strategy and Policy Track (SP) Supply Chain Management Track (SC)
Instructional Innovation Award Competition Finalists Three finalists (in the order of presentations, based on paper number) have been chosen for this year’s Instructional Innovation Award competition. From a total of 15 submissions, the list was narrowed to six after the first round of reviews. The finalists’ presentations will be held at the 2004 DSI Annual Meeting on Sunday, November 21, from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. The marketing carnival
Educational automation: Creating case study challenges
for large enrollment classes Six sigma: An animated computer simulation, case-based,
active and self-learning team approach for improving and optimizing
processes
Case Competition Award Finalists Three finalists cases for the DSI 2004 Case Studies Award Competition have been determined. Authors of these cases will make pedagogical presentation to a panel of judges on Monday, Nov. 22, from 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Finalist cases, authors, and their affiliations are listed below. Session Chair: Powell Robinson (Texas A&M University) Why Giants Change
Their Minds? Electrosteel
Castings Limited Lean Implementation
and Supply Chain Development at Oak Hills
2004 Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Competition The DSI Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition is named in honor of Professor Elwood S. Buffa, UCLA, for his many contributions to the decision sciences. The purpose of the competition is to identify and recognize outstanding doctoral research in the development of theory or applications of the decision sciences completed during 2003. WINNER HONORABLE MENTION
Dissertation Reviewers
Improv Asylum, voted “Best Comedy Club in Boston,” will follow the President’s Reception on Monday evening. Their critically acclaimed performances develop comedic scenes on the spot. Every show is different because the cast relies on audience input and suggestions. Improv Asylum opened its Boston theater in 1998. Since then, the company has produced over 2,000 shows in Boston. In 2002, the comedy troupe was named as Dewars’ national winner in its “Profiles” national advertising campaign (featured in Maxim April 2002). Improv Asylum won the award among an initial field of 40 companies throughout the U.S. Improv Asylum has performed over 2,200 shows, for over 500,000 people. The company has generated nearly $5 million in revenue overall and is annually a $1 million+ company.
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