----- Original Message ----- From: A Emrouz <[log in to unmask]> > 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 The submission should be a single or joint authored unpublished paper 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 >