Special Sessions

During the conference we have a number of special sessions. There will be plenary sessions and semi-plenary sessions of 1 hour. We also have invited sessions which have the same length as a regular session (1.5 hours) and consist of three speakers. Both the semi-plenary sessions and the invited sessions are centered around special topics and can be attended by all conference attendees.

The first plenary session features Luk Van Wassenhove who will reflect on Operations Management: Quo Vadis?

For the second plenary session we invited Marco Hendriks (TNT).

In a semi-plenary session Takahiro Fujimoto will discuss An Evolutionary Analysis of Industrial Performance: Capability-Architecture Fit and Locations of Design Sites.

Aleda Roth will lead a panel on Global Manufacturing Country Competitiveness: Insights from global CEOs in a semi-plenary session.

Nigel Slack will talk about Different groups, different teaching: How do we vary style and content?

Erwin Hans will discuss research on Health Care Operations.

Karen Donohue will discuss the applications of Behavioral Operations in Supply Chain Management.

In Meeting the editors high impact, important journals in the Operations Management will be introduced and the editors will discuss their experiences with authors and reviewers.

We invited John Poppelaars, who will talk about Supply Chain Wide Optimization at TNT Express.


Plenary sessions

Speaker	Time
Prof. Luk van Wassenhove (INSEAD)	Tue July 2, 08.45-09.45
Marco Hendriks (TNT)	Wed July 3, 10.30-11.30

Semi-plenary sessions (Tuesday and Wednesday, 14.45-15.45):

Topic	Speaker
Global Manufacturing Competitiveness	Aleda Roth
Virtual dual sourcing	Takahiro Fujimoto
Health Care Operations	Erwin Hans
Behavioral Operations	Karen Donohue
Different groups, different teaching: How do we vary style and content?	Nigel Slack
Meeting the editors	Various

Invited sessions

Invited session topic	Chair
Sustainable Supply Chain Management	Linda Hendry
Improving Operations Sustainability through Organizational and Human Resource Management practices	Rafaella Cagliano
Global Sourcing Management	Chung-Yee Lee
Surpassing Toyota Production System	Kakuro Amasaka
Service Innovation Case Study: Developing DVDs for Research and Teaching	Munehiko Itoh
High performance manufacturing	Yoshiki Matsui
Planning and Scheduling	Martin Grunow
Service Operations	Aleda Roth
Health care operations management	Urban Wemmerlow
Transportation and Logistics	Hugo Yoshizaki
Humanitarian Operations	Sander de Leeuw
Rapid Modelling in Management Education, Research and Practice	Gerald Reiner
City Logistics	Stefan Spinler
Strategy Cascading in Manufacturing and Service Organizations’ (Technology Management)	Arnd Huchzermeier
Operations in Emerging Markets	Edgar Blanco
Operations and Finance	Daniel Corsten/Margarita Protopappa-Sieke
Modeling Joint Pricing and Inventory Decisions	Refik Gullu
Assortment models in retail operations	Victor Martinez de Albeniz
Supply Chain Management	Damien Power
Maintenance and Reliability	Geert-Jan van Houtum
Management Consultancy	Zoe Radnor
Supply Chain Modeling	Stephen Disney
Behavioral Operations Management	Yaozhong Wu
Services Procurement	Finn Wynstra
Global Operations	Krisztina Demeter