1999
November 1999, Philadelphia, PA (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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
1998
October 1998, Seattle, WA (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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
1997
October 1997, Dallas, TX (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- Intelligence Gathering at Hughes Electronics Company
- Competitive Information and Results Presentation at Northrup/Grumman
- Competitive Intelligence Overview
- Competitive Intelligence Group Activity
- INFORMS, the Roundtable, and Big Waves: A Kickoff
1996
November 1996, Atlanta, GA (Photos)
- 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. (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- Competitive Intelligence/Benchmarking
- Gaining Insights through Benchmarking
- Benchmarking: Beyond Competitive Intelligence
- Reengineering: Hype vs. Reality
- INFORMS Initiatives to Help Practitioners
1995
October 1995, New Orleans, LA (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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
1994
October 1994, Detroit, MI (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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
1993
November 1993, Phoenix, AZ (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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 (Photos)
- 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
1992
November 1992, San Francisco, CA (Photos)
- 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
April 1992, Orlando, FL (Photos)
- 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
February 1992, Phoenix, AZ (Photos)
- 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
1991
November 1991, Anaheim, CA (Photos)
- 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
May 1991, Nashville, TN (Photos)
- 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
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)
1990
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
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
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