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Operations & Information Management

Using strong public and private sector links, members of the Operations & Information Management (OIM) Group continuously apply theoretical developments to support the practice of effective decision making in extremely complex environments as well as using those opportunities to create new waves of theoretical knowledge. Examples of recent research projects show this breadth of applied research.

OIM staff regularly work on consulting and research projects with local businesses as well as blue-chip global clientele and UK/international government bodies - helping them to understand, make and implement decisions. Examples include: Guardian Lock (Birmingham), United Nations, AstraZeneca, BAE Systems, Health and Safety Executive (UK) and Department for Education and Skills.

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  1. March 2012 - Prof Prasanta Dey along with Drs Ataur Belal and Stuart Cooper organised a disseminating workshop on 'Corporate reporting and embeddedness of environmental and climate change issues: an emerging economy perspectives' on 14 March at Conference Aston.  The workshop was inaugurated by Prof Julia King and Prof John Edwards gave the welcome address.  The workshop was attended by both researchers and practitioners from the UK and Bangladesh.  The Asst. High Commissioner of Bangladesh also attended and delivered a speech.

  2. March 2012 - Dr William Ho's article entitled "Multiple-criteria decision making approaches for supplier evaluation and selection: A literature review" has been the Hottest Article in the European Journal of Operational Research in the 2010 and 2011 academic years.

  3. February 13, 2012 - Prof Helen Higson attended the launch of the 100 Young Leaders project event, which aims to bring forward the next generation of leaders in Birmingham.  The event was compered by OIM Group alumnus Dr Miles Weaver.

  4. January 2012 - Dr Ali Emrouznejad and Dr William Ho have published their research in a book entitled 'Applied Operational Research in SAS.'

  5. January 2012 - Dr Prasanta Dey (OIM), Dr Stuart Cooper and Dr Atair Belal have won the British council funded project entitled 'Climate Change Issues and environmental performance of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in India and the UK' under UKIERI Thematic Partnership 2011.  The project will be taken in collaboration with Jadavpur University, Kolkata and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

  6. November 28-30, 2011 - Dr Prasanta Dey gave the opening address at the Global EPC Project Management for Engery Industries conference in London.  He was also the moderator for a Panel Discussion on 'Improving Project Profitability and Success: Examining the Best Practices in EPC Supplier Procurement Framework.'

  7. November 2, 2011 - Prof Tim Baines gave his inaugural lecture on 'Services: a manufacturing renaissance?'  Tim gave insights into companies that lead through their services; summarising advanced services strategies, their business benefits, the challeges they pose, and the technologies and practices they demand.  It also reflected on the potential value of this strategy regionally, and so explored whether servitization can really be part of a manufacturing renaissance.

  8. September, 2011 - GO-GREEN AWARDS - Congratulations to the OIM Group for being awarded a Bronze Award at this year's Aston Go-Green Awards. The OIM Group's newly formed Sustainability Group will be working hard this academic year to improve the Group's environmental impact. If you have any "green" innovation suggestions for the group please e-mail g.bruce@aston.ac.uk with your ideas.

  9. August 29-30, 2011 - WORKSHOP 'Supply Chain Management: Innovation in Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century' - A collaborative workshop held at the Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy.  Dr Ben Clegg co-organised this event with Monash University (Australia) and University of Sheffield.  For further information click here.

  10. August 18, 2011 - Dr Prasanta Dey delivered a seminar on 'Project management maturity analysis and benchmarking of Indian organisations with the organisations in the UK' at Jadavpur University in India.  The seminar was attended by postgraduate students and faculty members of Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering.

  11. August 4, 2011 - Dr Prasanta Dey delivered an interactive workshop to the senior executives of Global Enablement Centre, IBM Bangalore, India on 'Driving Quality Initiatives in individual level in IBM business processes'.  Senior executives from all over the country attended the session both physically and virtually.

  12. July 2011 - Breno Nunes has been elected to the Board of Directors of the International Association for the Management of Technology (IAMOT) for two years.  Congratulations Breno.

  13. June 2011 - The OIM Group is delighted to announce that our very own Paul Bocij has been awarded the Aston Excellence Award 2011 for Outstanding Teacher of the Year (Student Nominated).  Congratulations Paul. 

  14. June, 2011 - Dr Christopher Brewster has given an invited talk at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Frick, Switzerland.  Slides available here.

  15. April, 2011 -  SmartAgriFood - Dr. Christopher Brewster has obtained funding as part of the FP7 FI-PPP project SmartAgriFood, which will run for two years from April 2011.  The project concerns the development of use cases, requirements and pilots for the Future Internet with respect to the food and agriculture domain.  Further details available here.

  16. March, 2011 - Disaster 2.0 - Professor Duncan Shaw has obtained funding from the EC DG Home Security for a two year project entitled Disaster 2.0, which will analyse the use of Web 2.0 technologies in disaster and emergency management and consider the potential of applying Semantic Web technologies for this domain.  The project will run for two years from July, 2011.  Further details available here.