[meetings]

TOPICS FROM PREVIOUS ROUNDTABLE MEETINGS
Note: There are links on the main Meetings page to minutes, both public (expurgated) and private (non-expurgated), for most meetings since 1990.

TOPICS

	April, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Military OR and Relevance to History

• History of Military OR, Dr. Phil DePoy, Center for Naval Analyses
• Application of Quantitative and Qualitative OR/MS Tools and Techniques to Address Contemporary DoD Challenges in (1) Portfolio Management and (2) Measuring Effect of Net-Centricity on Mission Outcome, Michael Lavine, MITRE Corporation
• Roundtable Strategic Planning Team Update, Glenn Wegryn, Proctor & Gamble
• Lean Enterprise and Six Sigma in Military Logistics, Darrell Gooden, Port Hueneme Division Naval Surface Warfare Center
• Readiness Based Sparing - A Retrospective, T.J. O'Malley, LMI Government Consulting
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with INFORMS President-Elect Cynthia Barnhart - Roundtable Feedback on What is Lacking in Masters/PhD Programs
• Nightcap Dessert Reception

	February, 2007, Tampa, FL [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Human In The Loop

• Roundtable Strategic Planning Team Discussion
• Predictive Markets, Problem Solving, and the Wisdom of Crowds
• Playing Games for Better Business
• Using Market Mechanisms to Improve Forecasting
• Applications and Thoughts About Behavioral Economics in Schneider National
• Beyond the Efficient Frontier: A Novel Wealth Allocation Framework for Individual Investors
• The Ford Prediction Exchange
• Panel Discussion: What Would I have to Do To Make These Available in My Company?  What Internal Expertise Do I Need?  Can I Hire Someone To Do It?  Is This OR?
• INFORMS Professional Colloquium Activity
• Roundtable Strategic Planning Team Direction Wrap-Up
• 2006 Roundtable Pulse Taking Summary

	November, 2006, Pittsburgh, PA [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Sustainability

• Sustainable Development and OR Modeling
• Where do we go in Practice
• Recent Sustainable Business Experience
• Driving Sustainability Through Optimizaing Re-Use at Cisco
• P&G Efforts in Sustainable Development
• Some Thoughts About Sustainable Mobility From an OR Perspective
• Applications of OR/MS in recycling and product take-back at Hewlett Packard: Similarities and key differences with traditional supply chain problems
• Group Activity: Opportunities for Profitable Sustainability in Roundtable Companies
• Roundtable Strategic Planning Team Discussion of Vision, Mission and Strategic Goals
• Roundtable Dues Proposal Discussion
• Update on INFORMS Professional Colloquium
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board

	April 2006, Miami, FL [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Project Management

• Enhancing Project Delivery Capabilities through Project Analysis
• Integrated Cost - Schedule Risk Analysis using Monte Carlo Simulations
• Critical Chain Project Management
• Delivering Results: Operations Research at Air Products
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the President-Elect Brenda Dietrich - "OR" Deployment Best Practices

	February 2006, Marina del Rey, CA [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Forecasting

• Eta™ Analysis: Forecasting and Quantitative Analysis for Investment Banking and Hedge Funds
• EconomicInvestor’s Eta® Analysis
• Exploring the Intersection of Large Scale Forecasting, Time Series Mining and Visualization
• Forecasting Without Looking in the Rearview Mirror (OR Forecasting in Markets Where There is Insufficient (Relevant) Historical Data)
• Forecasting and Network Balance in Full-Truckload Transportation Networks
• OR Applications at Hewlett-Packard
• Follow-up to the San Francisco Roundtable/INFORMS Board Meeting

	February 2005, Amelia Island, FL [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Data Mining

• Introduction to Data Mining Concepts and Methods
• Applications of Text Data Mining
• Data Mining Methodologies and Trends
• Overview of the Roundtable Website
• Data Mining Mistakes - and How to Avoid them
• Data Mining Applications in Marketing
• Data Mining in a Transaction World
• Roundtable Discussion about Data Mining

	April 2005, Palm Springs, CA [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Structured Networking

• OR at Procter & Gamble
• OR at Jeppesen Sanderson
• Structured Networking: Topic 1 – Methods of Bringing OR Theory to Application
• Structured Networking: Topic 2 – Why Are “Good” Projects Not Funded?
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the President-Elect Mark Daskin - INFORMS Publications
• Roundtable Meeting Schedule

	November 2005, San Francisco, CA [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Pricing and Revenue Management

• Revenue Management in the Airline Industry: From Gumball Dispensers to Rocket Science
• Revenue Management Tutorial, The Theory and Practice of Revenue Management
• Effective Pricing Analysis & Design Methods for Manufacturers and Distributors to Create Optimal Price Guidelines
• Revenue Management in the Broadcast Television Industry, Srinivas Bollapragada, GE
• Pricing in the Less-Than-Truckload Transportation Industry
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: The Roundtable’s Role in INFORMS

	October, 2004, Denver, CO [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Risk Analysis and Management

• Lockheed Martin Facility Tour - "Shuttle Return to Flight Activities"
• Presentation of Outcomes of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board by Board Member Sheila Widnall
• How to Remove Subjectivity from Risk Assessments
• The Role of Precursors in Forestalling Accidents
• Risk Management and Decision Theory
• OR Work at Member Company Applied Mathematics
• Roundtable Member Pulse-taking Learnings and Feedback
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: Meeting the Needs of OR Masters Level Professionals

	April 2004, Cambridge, MA [detailed agenda]
	Theme: OR and Six Sigma

• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the President-Elect Richard C. Larson-Strategic Efforts to Get More Non-PhD's to Join INFORMS
• Six Sigma and OR at Boeing
• Six Sigma and OR at Ford

	February 2004, Orlando, FL [detailed agenda]
	Theme: OR in the Service Industry

• Mission: SPACE
• Importance of IE & OR at Walt Disney World             
• Transportation Modeling at Walt Disney World
• Mission Space Simulation Modeling 
• The Birth of FASTPASS
• Why OR Systems Fail, UPS

	October 2003, Atlanta, GA [detailed agenda]
	Theme: OR and the Roundtable Community

• How Do You Re-Launch a Profession?
• OR at Weyerhaeuser
• OR at Boeing
• OR/MS in the Roundtable Community
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: Marketing the Profession Update
• Roundtable Luncheon Meeting with the Association of Chairs of Operations Research Departments (ACORD)
• Synchronizing Global Commerce: Operations Research at UPS

	May 2003, Phoenix, AZ [detailed agenda]
	Theme: How to be a Better Communicator

• How to be a Better Communicator (two sessions)
• Marketing 101: Marketing a Marketing Science Group
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with INFORMS President-Elect Michael Rothkopf
  • Integration of Theory and Practice
  • Running INFORMS' Businesses More Effectively

	February 2003, Charleston, SC [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Marketing OR

• Marketing, Market Communications, Brands and the OR/MS Family of Disciplines (two sessions
• Platform for Discussion
• Interactive Workshop
• Marketing 101: Marketing a Marketing Science Group
• Marketing CPLEX: A Historical Perspective
• Brief Update on the INFORMS Marketing Project

	November 2002, San Jose, CA [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Visualization

• Information Visualization (3 integrated sessions)
  • The Case for Information Visualization
  • Structured Data
  • User Controls
• Representing Trees Using Microsoft Doughnut Charts<
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: Practice Initiatives – Where should immediate emphasis be placed?

	May 2002, Montreal, Canada [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Personality Types

• Myers-Briggs Training Session
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the INFORMS President-Elect
  
  • Planning and Managing the Future Direction of INFORMS Through Collaborative Strategic Planning

	February 2002, Chandler, AZ [detailed agenda]
	Theme: Giving OR a Friendly Face

• Spreadsheet Engineering
• Promoting OR by Hiding OR
• Optimizers Inside
• OR Disguised: The Wagner Experience
• Panel/Open Discussion on “OR Inside

	November 2001, Miami, FL [detailed agenda]
	Theme: The B2B Context of OR/MS

• Auction Theory for OR/MS Practice
• E-Business at Air Products: Shifting to a Second-Generation Strategy
• The Effect of New Technologies on Transportation
• Putting the "e" in Eastman Business
• Streamlined Sales Tax Initiative: Internet-Based Sales Tax Engine for the 21st Century
• Informal Discussion on the Practice Portal
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: Avoiding "Myth-understandings" in Academic/Practitioner Collaboration

May 2001, La Jolla, CA [detailed agenda]

• Managing Best Practices
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the INFORMS President-Elect
  • Social Capital as a Professional Asset

	February 2001, Savannah, GA [detailed agenda]
	Theme: The Changing Computing Environment of OR

• Optimization Modeling in Distributed Applications:
  How new technologies such as XML and SOAP allow OR to provide Web-based services
• Optimization over the Internet
• A Case Study in Implementation: Feeder Schedule Optimization System
• Constraint Based Programming at ILOG
• Exploiting Web Technology to Deliver OR Solutions
• Panel Discussion: The Impact of the Changing Computing Environment of OR

	November 2000, San Antonio, TX [detailed agenda]
	Theme: CRM

• Marketing Strategy and Customer Equity in the Information Age
• The 1 to 1 Marketing Approach and CRM
• Predictive Modeling and Robust Optimization in eCRM
• Management Science Approaches to Personalization
• Operations Research at Qwest Communications International
• Planning for the First INFORMS Practice Meeting in San Diego
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: Practice Portal for INFORMS Online

	May 2000, Salt Lake City, UT [detailed agenda]
	Theme: e-Business

• The Effect of E-Business on the Supply Chain
• Applying Quantitative Marketing Techniques to the Internet
• A Review of the Evolution of e-Commerce and Operations Research in Travel and Transportation
• How the Internet is Transforming HP’s Business Models: Opportunities for OR/MS
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the INFORMS President-Elect
  
  • Improving INFORMS Online for Practitioners
  • Restructuring INFORMS

	February 2000, Las Vegas, NV [detailed agenda]
	Theme: ERP

• Beyond Enterprise Resource Planning Systems to Fact-based, Coordinated Decision Making
• The Compleat ERP Strategy
• Operations Research Activity in the Defense World at Raytheon Company
• Beyond ERP to Active Supply Chain Management, APS, CRM, and more
• Brainstorming Opportunities for OR/MS in the Deployment of ERP

November 1999, Philadelphia, PA

• The State of Enterprise Software
• Patent Law as it Relates to OR/MS Algorithms
• Going Live: Partnership Meeting with the INFORMS Task Force on Continuing Professional Education
• Health Insurance for Heterogeneous Populations
• The History of Process Scheduling at Rohm and Haas
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: On-Line Communications for OR/MS Products and Services

May 1999, Cincinnati, OH

• Managing the Complex
• Adaptive Solutions for Complex Problems
• Large-Scale, Real-Time Decision Support Tools: The Case for Corporate Flight Simulators
• Training for Greater Success in OR Practice:
  • Partnership Meeting with the INFORMS Task Force on Continuing Professional Education
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the INFORMS President-Elect
  • Creating a CEO Advisory Board for INFORMS
• Creating Pay-for-Service Offerings for INFORMS

February 1999, Tampa, FL

• INFORMS Continuing Professional Education Program
• Integrating OR into Top-Level Decision-Making
• Marketing OR: Effective Communication with Senior Management
• OR on Every Desktop and at the Center of Corporate Activity
• Discussion of Continuing Professional Education for INFORMS and the Roundtable

October 1998, Seattle, WA

• Meeting with the INFORMS Board:
  Technology-Enabled OR Education and What It May Do for Practitioners
• The Balanced Scorecard
• The Success and Survival of OR Groups in the UK
• Visualization and Optimization

April 1998, Montreal, Quebec

• Roundtable Suggestions for INFORMS Public Relations
• Negotiating Skills Seminar
• How a Small Group Makes a Big Impact at Praxair
• Delivering Supply Chain Planning Solutions
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the INFORMS President-Elect
  • INFORMS 2000 Practitioner-Oriented National/International Meeting

February 1998, San Antonio, TX

• Evolving Technology, Digital Technology and Implications for Operations Research
• OR and Recruiting Panel Discussions
  • What Works Our Groups Are Doing - The Demand for New OR Recruits
  • What Kind of People We Seek and How They Are Introduced to Our Organizations
  • Graduates that Meet OR/MS Group Needs
  • Managing the OR/MS Recruits Supply / Demand Gap
• Big Waves Which Will Provide Opportunities for MS/OR Practice

October 1997, Dallas, TX

• Future of Telecommunications Technology
• Evolution of OR in DuPont
• OR/MS in Business Schools
• Startup of an IBM Consulting Group
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: Electronic Commerce - Implications and Opportunities for OR/MS

May 1997, San Diego, CA

• Information-Based Services
• Service Operations: Our Agenda for the Future
• Concepts of Agile Enterprises and Implementation Tools
• INFORMS Issues
• Managing an OR Group (Panel Discussion)
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the INFORMS President-Elect
  • Strengthening Local Chapters
• Public Relations for OR/MS

February 1997, Chandler, AZ

• Intelligence Gathering at Hughes Electronics Company
• Competitive Information and Results Presentation at Northrup/Gruman
• Competitive Intelligence Overview
• Competitive Intelligence Group Activity
• INFORMS, the Roundtable, and Big Waves: A Kickoff

November 1996, Atlanta, GA

• Top Management Perspectives on OR/MS
• Data Mining for Strategic Business Decision Making
• Operations Research at Silicon Graphics Inc.
• Roundtable Luncheon Reception for Plenary Speaker
• The Shared Destiny Initiatives
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: Better Services for Practitioners
  

May 1996, Washington, D.C.

• When OR/MS People Move on to Broader Managerial Responsibilities
• What is the Future of MS/OR Tools? (Panel Discussion)
  • Dash Associates
  • Chesapeake Decision Sciences
  • SAS Institute
  • MathPro
  • CPLEX Optimization
  • EDS
    
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the INFORMS President-Elect
• Practice-Oriented Initiatives for INFORMS
  

February 1996, Deerfield Beach/Boca Raton, FL

• Competitive Intelligence/Benchmarking
• Gaining Insights through Benchmarking
• Benchmarking: Beyond Competitive Intelligence
• Reengineering: Hype vs. Reality
• INFORMS Initiatives to Help Practitioners

October 1995, New Orleans, LA

• Suggesting Improvement Before Doing the Job
• Success in Managing OR Groups
• Potential Roundtable Projects
• Group Exercise Based on the Book Competing for the Future
• Meeting with the INFORMS Board: Understanding Contemporary OR/MS Practice
• Roundtable Reception for the Winner of the INFORMS Prize
  

April 1995, Los Angeles, CA

• Enterprise Modeling: Overview and Case Studies
• Enterprise Modeling and Simulation at Hewlett Packard
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with INFORMS President-Elect
  • Success Management in UK OR Groups
• OR/MS and Business School Education
• The Importance of the Name of the OR/MS Profession
• Discussion and Prioritization of Future Meeting Topics
  

February 1995, San Diego, CA

• Understanding Networked Organizations
• Virtual Organizations and the Evolving Business Environment
• Enabling Virtual Organizations: A Technology Perspective and Experience at Andersen Consulting
• MS/OR Career Self Reliance in the Virtual Workplace and Experience at Unisys
• Internet Resources for Virtualization in MS/OR: Practice On-Line; DecisionNet

October 1994, Detroit, MI

• Manufacturing Development Engineering at GM
• The History of AI at Texas Eastman Division
• Supply Chain Process Reengineering at Dow Chemical
• Change Management at Hughes Aircraft with Computerized Modeling
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the INFORMS President-Elect
  • Designing Viable INFORMS Subdivisions
  • Competing for Practitioners' Time
  • Articulating MS/OR within the Organization
• The Practice Track
  • OR/MS in Manufacturing
  • Management Science Leadership in the Manufacturing Environment

April 1994, Boston, MA

• A View of Management Science in 1997
• The Practice Track
  • Status Reports from Recent Franz Edelman Finalists
  • The Application of MS/OR to Marketing Innovation
  • Practice and Practitioners in the New Association
• Meeting with TIMS Council: Discussion of the Anticipated Merger
  

February 1994, St. Petersburg, FL

• A Non-Linear and Dynamic System View of Project Work
• Successful Management of the Project Life Cycle
  • Arthur Andersen & Company
  • American Greetings Corporation
  • Navmar Applied Sciences Corporation
• Successful and Problematic Practices for Each Stage of Project Work

November 1993, Phoenix, AZ

• Partnerships Between Industry and Academia
• The Rohm & Haas Information Technology Training Program
• Electronic Networking Technology
• Peer Review at Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the TIMS President-Elect
  • The Practice Society in the Merged Association
  • Internet Based Services in the Merged Association
  • Software Services in the Merged Association
  • Other Products and Services in the Merged Association
• The Practice Track
  • The Current and Future Role of MS/OR in Customer Service
• Management Science Practice and Customer Service

May 1993, Chicago, IL

• The Role of MS/OR in Transforming Xerox
• The Practice Track
  • The Practice of Management Science in the Airline Industry
  • The Practice of Management Science in Global Logistics
  • The Practice of Management Science in the Rail and Truck Industry
• Vehicle Routing at Nabisco
• Meeting with TIMS Council
  • Proposed New Products and Services to TIMS Members
  • The Proposed Merger of ORSA and TIMS

February 1993, St. Petersburg, FL

• Successful Marketing of Management Science Services
• Marketing and Selling Techniques Workshop for Management Science Professionals
• Successfully Marketing MS Services Inside and Outside the Sponsoring Organization
  • AT&T Business Operations
  • Rohm & Haas
  • Pitney Bowes

February 1992, Phoenix, AZ

• Next Generation Organization
• How MS Practitioners Can Support the 21st Century Organization
• How Professional Societies and the Academic Community Can Support 21st Century MS Practitioners

April 1992, Orlando, FL

• Opportunities for MS/OR in Business Process Reengineering
• Successful MS Organizations (Practice Track)
• The MS Agenda for the 21st Century (Practice Track)
  • MS Support of Global Competitiveness
  • Role of MS in Supporting Customer Focus/Quality
  • Supporting Dispersed MS Practitioners
• MS for Fun and Profit (Practice Track)
  • How To Bet the Kentucky Derby
  • Getting Computer-Reluctant People To Use MS
• Meeting with TIMS Council:
• Curricular Reform
• Dispersed Practitioners
• Reengineering

November 1992, San Francisco, CA

• Value-Focused Thinking
• Business Teams and Team-Oriented Tools
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the TIMS President-Elect
  • Segmentation of Markets TIMS Serves
  • Decentralization of TIMS Meetings
  • Internships/Apprenticeships
  • Quality
• Discussion with Isolated Practitioners

February 1991, North Redington Beach, FL

• Database Marketing in the Pharmaceutical Industry
• Market Research and Modeling for the 21st Century Enterprise
• Expert Systems in Consumer Goods Marketing
• Business Marketing and Management Science
• Marketing OR/MS Departments to Upper Management (Panel Discussion)

May 1991, Nashville, TN

• Logistics and the Profitability of the Firm
• Strategic Design of Logistics Systems
• Demand Forecasting in Logistics Systems at Ross Laboratories
• Tactical and Operational Logistics Planning
  • Production Planning
  • Transportation Scheduling
• Forecasting (Panel Discussion)
• Meeting with TIMS Council: Steps Toward a Stronger Academic/Practitioner Interface

November 1991, Anaheim, CA

• The Management and the Science of the Customer
• Overview of the Recent Reorganization at the National Science Foundation
• Quality Issues on Customer Service in Consulting
• Customer Service in MS Groups
• Establishing the Vision of Management Science
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the TIMS President-Elect
  • Reaching the Lone Ranger Practitioners
• The MS Job Market
• MS & IS Synergy
• The Communication Revolution as an Opportunity for MS

February 1990, Tempe, AZ

• Strategic Information Technology at Pitney Bowes
• Issues of the MS/IS Interface
• MS/IS Issues (Panel Discussion)
• Management Communication
• MS Recruitment, Training, and Communication
• Roundtable Membership Survey

May 1990, Las Vegas, NV

• MS Professionals in the 90s
• OR/MS Practice at Martin Marietta
• OR/MS Futures
• Successful Simulation Studies
• Meeting with TIMS Council:
  • Careers Booklet
  • IS/MS Collaboration
  • TIMS/SIM Collaboration

October 1990, Philadelphia, PA

• Quality Management at Exxon Central Services
• Group Decision Support in Quality Programs
• Quality Management at Lubrizol
• Quality Management at Air Products
• Why Can't the US Compete Globally?
• Quality Program Management (Panel Discussion)
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the TIMS President-Elect
  • TIMS/ORSA Merger
• Internalization of TIMS and Practitioner-Academic Interface in TIMS
• Roundtable Plans with TIMS Council/Journals/Colleges
• PR for Management Science

February 1989, San Diego, CA

• The Logic of Joint Research and Development
• Managing Modern Manufacturing Systems
• Manufacturing Systems Management: A Review by Roundtable Members

May 1989, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada

• Management Science Collaboration
• Career Development for the Management Scientist
• Meeting with TIMS Council
  • TIMS Public Relations Program
  • Proposal for a Careers Booklet

October 1989, New York, NY

• Management Science Techniques in Investment Management
• Management Science in Financial Services at Merrill Lynch
• Decision Sciences in Risk Management
• The Effective Practice of OR in the UK
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with the TIMS President-Elect and the ORS President
  • OR and IT Constructive Coexistence
  • Promoting OR to New Organizations
  • Recruitment of Quality OR Candidates
  • Graduate Curriculum Guidelines
  • Academic/Practitioner Interface

February 1988, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

• Strategic Management Services at Digital
• Management Sciences and the Productivity/Quality Movement

April 1988, Washington, D.C.

• Marketing Information Systems Development at Hallmark Cards
• OR/MS in the Federal Government
• Meeting with TIMS Council:
  • Academic/Practitioner Interface
  • Public Relations Program

October 1988, Denver, CO

• Reflections of a Dean on Leading a Business School to Excellence
• United We Stand: Practitioners and Academicians Working Towards Future
• Presidential Issues: A Discussion with TIMS President-Elect
  • The Relationship between TIMS and ORSA
  • The Umbrella Strategy for TIMS
  • TIMS as an International Organization
  • Academic-Practitioner Relations
  • TIMS Public Relations
  • Public Relations in Secondary Schools