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> EURO Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize 2004(MSSIP 2004)
> Call for Applications
> The European Association of Operational Research Societies (EURO) is
> offering the Management Science Strategic Innovation Prize (MSSIP) to
> foster specific areas of application of Operational Research in 
> management.The prize is intended to reward outstanding 
> contributions in theory or in
> practice to a well-chosen scientific area encouraging innovative
> researchers and possibly entire research groups to focus their 
> work on a
> domain of particular strategic interest. The prize, of value 12 
> 000 € is
> conferred in each EURO-k conference and is sponsored by SAP AG, 
> Germany.
> The MSSIP will be awarded for the first time at EURO 2003 in 
> Istanbul.Thesecond award will be made at EURO 2004 in Rhodes, 
> Greece for an innovative
> contribution in the area of
> 
> 
> Performance Management and Benchmarking
> 
> Performance management and benchmarking has become a key area of 
> concern in
> the public and private sectors as a way of driving the strategic 
> directionof organisations.In the public sector the advent of 
> league tables have
> become pervasive with both positive and negative effects on 
> performance. A
> variety of contemporary approaches and techniques have been 
> developed and
> applied by management scientists and others to improve organisational
> performance, most notably
> 
> 
> Data envelopment analysis (DEA), a technique with its origins in 
> economictheory but developed by management scientists to address 
> performance issues
> for homogeneous groups of units (e.g. schools, bank branches) 
> where the
> existence of multiple inputs and outputs makes performance measurement
> problematic.
> Stochastic frontier analysis, a similar method to DEA but 
> applicable where
> the data is best described stochastically.
> Benchmarking, a process of seeking to identify best practice and 
> transferit to under-performing businesses.
> The Balanced Scorecard, an approach to developing a performance 
> measurementsystem which provides a balance across a range of 
> perspectives including
> efficiency, customer service, financial and innovative.
> 
> Additionally there are longstanding approaches including, for 
> example, the
> use of regression analysis and ratio analysis.
> 
> Submission
> The submission should be a single or joint authored unpublished paper
> describing either a theoretical development, indicating its potential
> impact on practice, or an innovative practical implementation.
> 
> The paper is to be submitted in electronic form to the chair of 
> the jury
> not later than January 15, 2004.
> 
> The Chair of the MSSIP Jury 2004 is:
> 
> Prof. Robert Dyson
> Warwick Business School,
> University of Warwick,
> Coventry CV4 7AL
> UK
> Email:[log in to unmask]
> 
> 
> Members of the MSSIP Jury 2004:
> 
> L.Simar, Belgium
> M.Shutler, United Kingdom
> R.Bisdorff, Luxemburg
> Ph.Vincke, Belgium
> M.Kuhn (SAP), Germany
> J.Wallenius, Finland
>