FINAL CONFERENCE

Friday, 15 September 2006

Morning session, 9.00 - 13.00

Welcome speakers

• MARA Steering Committee
• Sir Peter Torry, British Ambassador
• MinDirig. Christoph Ehrenberg, Federal Ministry of Education and Science
• Margret Suckale, Member of the Board Deutsche Bahn AG

Key Note Speech

Prof Gregory Parnell, President of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS

"On Socio-technical Decision Analysis"

Prof Larry Phillips, London School of Economics

Presentation of the five MARA 2006 project results & Excellence Award Ceremony

• Demographic Change: Portfolio Analysis on Employability Strategy
• Recruiting: Channel Optimisation
• Investment Strategy: Market-oriented Prioritisation of Investments in Railway Stations
• R&D: Portfolio-based Strategy Development
• Public Management: Prioritisation of Infrastructure Funding in Berlin
  
  

Lunch break, 13.00 - 14.30

Afternoon session, 14.30 - 18.00

Workshops on Decision Analysis & Public Management, Decision Analysis & Strategy Development and Decision Analysis & Defense

4:30 - 16:00

Decision Analysis & Public Management

• 'Multiple-stakeholder Decision Analyses in the Public Sector' - Prof Larry Phillips, London School of Economics
• 'Efficient Allocation of Public Funds: Prioritisation of Funding Requests in the Public Sector' - MARA Team Berlin Government Senate Department for Economics
• 'Opportunities and Limits of Decision Analyses in the Public Sector' - Prof Sonja Wälti, Hertie School of Governance

Decision Analysis & Strategy Development

• 'The Corporate Perspective: Portfolio Management at Siemens AG' - Prof  ichael Mirow, Technical University Berlin
• 'The Business Unit Perspective: Market-oriented Prioritisation of Investments in Railway Stations at DB Station & Service AG', MARA Team DB Station & Service
• 'The Marketing Perspective: Portfolio-based Optimisation of Marketing-Value-for-Money at Schering Argentina' - MARA Team Schering

16.30 - 18.00

Decision Analysis & Defense

• 'Defense Resource Allocation Decision Making' - Prof Gregory Parnell, United States Military Academy at West Point
• Jörn Thießen, Defense Committee of the German Parliament (MdB)
• 'Applying MCDA to Military Procurement and Support' - Capt Malcolm Cree, Royal Navy Fleet Headquarter

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