2nd Meeting | IFIP Working Group 8.3: Decision Support Systems


Second meeting of the Task force
London, 5th and 6th April 2004

The second meeting of the task force on learning from case studies in decision making and decision support was a success with increased participation and faultless organisation from Patrick Humphreys and his staff at LSE. The meeting opened with the business meeting (click here to download the minutes) which lasted two hours. The future of the group seems secured as no fewer than three meetings in three different locations are already planned in 2004 and 2005.
After a short break, the meeting switched to presentations of research, which were varied and triggered ample discussion. Over the next day and a half, the following presentations were given:

Frederic Adam (UCC) and Eleanor Doyle (UCC) Outsourcing decisions - the Topps and SerCom case studies [view synopsis]

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]