IFIP 8.3 Task Force meeting - Cork April 2007
Learning from Case Studies in Decision Making and Decision Support
Programme (follow links to presentation - work in progress):
Thursday 5th of April, 2007
9.30 – 10.00: participants assemble in room 2.12 (second floor - O’Rahilly Building, UCC, just opposite the lift – one door on each side).
10.00: Welcome address and update information about the event (F Adam)
Session 1: Understanding Business Performance - Chair: F.Adam
10.15: Fergal Carton (University College Cork, Ireland) – Studying the impact of ERP applications on managerial decision making.
11.00: Rien Hamers – (Fontys Hogeschool ICT, The Netherlands) - Measuring Key Performance Indicators – Towards understanding organisational behaviour.
11.45: break (Tea / Coffee)
12.00: Simon Woodworth (University College Cork , Ireland) – “Was it worth it?” Dynamic Capabilities as a tool for evaluating Enterprise Systems Implementation.
12.45: lunch
Session 2: DSS Applications - Chair P.Humphreys
14.00: Joăo Clímaco, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra, and INESC-C, M. Eugénia Captivo, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon and C.I.O.; Sérgio Fernandes, Department of Mathematics, E.S.T., Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal. An Interactive DSS dedicated to Bi-Criteria Location Problems
14.45: József Csicsman, Balázs Látó, (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary) – Application of microsimulation methodology in decision support
15.30: break (Tea / Coffee)
15.45: Thomas Acton (University College Galway, Ireland) – Decision Support for Small Screen Information Systems
16.30: Task Force Business Meeting (see notes below).
17.30: close of day 1
19.30: Task force meeting diner (venue to be confirmed) – walking distance from UCC.
Friday 6th of April, 2007
Session 3: Methods and Tools for Supporting Decision Making - Chair P.Gelleri
9.30 (room 2.12, 2nd floor - O’Rahilly Building, UCC): Patrick Humphreys and Ai Yu (London School of Economics, United Kingdom) – supporting enterprise in the spaces in between what is planned in rapid urban development, followed by the showing a short film on work carried out in locations on the Pearl River Delta (Nanling, Nansha).
10.45: break (Tea / Coffee)
11.00: David Sammon (University College Cork, Ireland) – Devil’s advocate workshop as a vehicle for self-analysis – the case of ERP adoption
11.45: Csaba Csaki (Budapest Univ. Of Technology and Economics, Hungary) – Making (procurement) decisions in a highly regulated environment: a case of spending EU grant support.
12.30: lunch
Session 4: Studying Decision Making - Chair D. Sammon
14.00: John McAvoy (University College Cork, Ireland) – Ineffective decision making in the adoption of a software development methodology: the failure to translate decisions into actions.
14.45: Peter Gelleri (Budapest Univ. Of Technology and Economics, Hungary) and László Mérő (Eötvös University of Budapest) – How psychological factors influence the success of DSS implementation through the choice of target for development
15.30: break (Tea / Coffee)
15.45: Frederic Adam (University College Cork, Ireland) – Some thoughts on why we really need to study Decision Making and meeting close.
16.30: close of day 2.
Business Meeting notes:
(a) Membership:
Complete list of attendees - Attendee list
note: the following researchers have attended their second IFIP 8.3 event at this meeting: Dr. Ferenc Kiss and Dr. József Csicsman
(b) publication:
All presentations given at this workshop are available on-line (see above)
Invitations have been made to send papers for publication in the Journal of Decision Systems
Past papers of the task force are being published as a double issue of the Journal of Decision Systems (issue 3&4, 2007)
(c) Next meeting:
One proposal was made and accepted that the next meeting should take place in China (either in Beijing or Nansha) in April 2008 (second week).
(d) Other events:
It has been proposed that a session could be organised by task force members as part of the Third International Conference on Human Centred Processes HCP-2008. (contact P. Brezillon Patrick.Brezillon@lip6.fr
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