Second meeting of the Task force

Case Studies of Decision Making and Decision Support

Dates: Monday 5th of April to Tuesday 6th of April 2004

Venue:

The London School of Economics
Department of Social Psychology
St Clements Building
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

The meetings will take place in Room S314, third floor St. Clements Building (see LSE Map).

• How to get to LSE (Map)
  
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This room is equipped with large screen projection facilities (with sound) for video or computer generated output, connected to a PC which can access your presentations on CD or via the internet. Alternatively, you can connect the video output of you laptop PC/MAC into the display system. If you have any questions concerning compatibility of the material you wish to present on this system, please email our chief technician Steve Bennett on: S.Bennett@lse.ac.uk.

AGENDA

Monday 5 April

• 10am - 1pm: Business meeting of task force

(1) Report of the First Meeting and matters arising

(2) Update on of task force objectives and definition of key directions for research

(3) Task force website and proposed mechanisms for exchanging research results amongst group members

(4) Update on special session on “how to use case studies for teaching and research in decision making and decision support systems” planned for the WG8.3 Prato Conference.

(5) Publication of selected papers from the Paris and London Workshop meetings, ant the special session on the Task Force at Prato, in a special issue of the Journal of Decision Systems on “Learning from Case Studies in DM and DS” (Guest Editors: David Sammon and Patrick Humphreys)

(6) Proposed mechanisms for dissemination of the work of the group in the wider community: other publication possibilities

(7) Future events

• 1pm - 2.30 pm: Lunch in LSE Senior Dining Room
  (Note to any gourmet members of the group concerned about the quality of English cooking – the Senior Dining Room has a very good Italian Chef)
  
  
• 2.30 - 5.30: Research presentations by group members
  
  
• 7.30: Dinner at a good restaurant in Covent Garden, London WC2 (for those who wish to come).

Tuesday 6 April

• 10am - 1pm: Research presentations by group members
  
  
• 1pm - 2.30pm: Lunch in LSE Senior Dining Room
  
  
• 2.30 - 4pm: Discussions (in parallel sessions) between researchers with specific interests

Research Presentations

The following presentations have been notified by task force members, as at March 17th.

• Frederic Adam (UCC) and Eleanor Doyle (UCC)
  Outsourcing decisions - the Topps and SerCom case studies
  
  
• Patrick Brézillon, (LIP6) Frédéric Adam (UCC), and Jean-Charles Pomerol (:LIP6)
  Supporting Complex Decision Making Processes with
  Collaborative Applications - A Case Study
  [view synopsis]
  
  
• Fergal Carton (UCC)
  Decision Making implication of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems - The GSK case study.
  
  
• Osvaldo Garcia
  Story-telling: an organisational approach
  [view synopsis]
  
  
• Garrick Jones (Cap Gemini Ernst and Young) and Patrick Humphreys (LSE)
  Case study : Action Learning within an Accelerated Solutions Environment
  [view synopsis]
  Website: http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/innovate/
  
  
• Melissa Nolas (Complexity Group.LSE)
  The place of action in the management case study: reflections on research in an organizational setting'
  [view synopsis]
  
  
• Gonzalo Olmos and Patrick Humphreys (LSE)
  Participatory multimedia supporting Young people’s decision making on the problem of “nothing to do” in their communities
  [view synopsis]
  View full report at: http://www.psych.lse.ac.uk/positivefutures/
  
  
• David Sammon, (UCC)
  Organisational Prerequisites for ERP Software Selection Decision Making Processes".
  
  
• Alex Steinberg (LSE)
  How can entrepreneurs make meaningful decisions about the future?
  
  
• John Sutcliffe-Braithwaite
  What is meta-modeling?
  [view synopsis]
  

If you wish to make a presentation, but are not included in the above list, this will still be possible - we will agree on the final schedule for the presentation at the, meeting on the morning of Monday 5 April.

Note that it is not necessary to submit a full paper before or at the meeting, Presentation of work in progress is welcome, as is presentation on a preliminary or alternative version of a paper that you have already had accepted for the Prato conference.

Accommodation: to be arranged by group members themselves. A list of some nice hotels in central London within easy reach of LSE, (with addresses, and web-links) is attached . We will can offer participants limited assistance in choosing and booking hotels. Please email Daniel Linehan (D.P.Linehan@lse.ac.uk) with your requirements.

Participation fee: a fee of £30 (approx 45 euro) will be requested from attendees on arrival at the workshop to help make this a nice occasion (the fee will cover the two lunches / tea and coffee breaks).

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