Call For Papers - OR and Strategy
OR46 - The Annual Conference of the UK Operational Research Society
University of York, UK
September 7th to 9th, 2004
The OR and Strategy Stream
Strategic development is fundamentally concerned with organisational development over the longer term, moving an organisation in the direction of a desirable goal or objective. Thus deciding where you want to go, examining what may lie ahead, choosing between options, setting targets, planning how to move in the direction you want to and checking progress along the way are all important components of any process designed to support strategic development.
Strategic decisions, such as launching a new product or choosing between sites for a new building programme are characterised by their difficulty to reverse since they often have enduring consequences. Helping managers to understand the nature of the issues they face and to have confidence that decisions made have been supported by appropriate analysis of knowledge, information and data, are some of the contributions that OR can make to strategic development.
The OR & Strategy stream intends to promote discussion of the contribution that OR makes to strategic issues in organisations and to increase awareness of the potential for OR methods to support strategic development and strategic level analysis.
The organisers welcome contributions in the following areas:
o The contribution of Operational Research to strategy and strategic development
o Current practice of strategic development/planning
o The use of models / methods to support strategy development
Interested in presenting a paper?
You do not have to produce a written paper for the conference - a 'paper' at the conference means approximately 20 minutes for a presentation plus 5 minutes for questions/discussion. If you have some ideas and would like to try them out on someone before committing to a paper, please feel free to contact the organisers of this stream (details below).
Abstract Submission Instructions
You may submit your abstract on-line via the OR Society's website at: www.theorsociety.com -look in the Conferences section, under OR46. Here you can enter your details and specify which stream you wish to join (our stream is called 'OR & Strategy'). The Society will then notify us, the organisers, that your paper has been added to the stream.
**Alternatively, you may contact the co-ordinators of the OR and Strategy Stream:
Ms Frances O'Brien / Tel: 02476 522095
Ms Maureen Meadows Fax: 02476 524539
Warwick Business School e-mail: [log in to unmask]
University of Warwick
Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK
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