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The role of the tutorials is to provide a platform for a more intensive scientific exchange amongst researchers interested in a particular topic and as a meeting point for the community. Tutorials complement the depth-oriented technical sessions by providing participants with broad overviews of emerging fields. A tutorial can be scheduled for 1.5 or 3 hours.



Tutorial on
Strategic Analytics for Enterprise Systems: Methods and Applications


Instructor

Greg H. Parlier
GH Parlier Consulting
United States
 
Brief Bio
A West Point graduate and retired US Army Colonel, Greg is currently President, GH Parlier Consulting. A combat veteran with 5 operational deployments and service in over 20 foreign nations on 12 named operations, he was a paratroop commander in the 82nd Airborne Division for 8 years, air-ground battle staff officer, joint operations planner, and Army strategist. When he retired he was the Army's senior, most experienced Operations Research officer with assignments spanning land warfare analyses, manpower and personnel, program analysis and evaluation, and logistics. He was assistant then associate professor of Operations Research at West Point. For 12 years after retiring, he served on the research staff at the Institute for Defense Analyses where he was an advisor to several foreign governments and senior OR analyst supporting the multi-national forces command in Iraq. He is a distinguished graduate of the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College, National Defense Fellow at MIT, Army War College graduate, and recently was adjunct Professor of Operations Research at NC State University. Dr. Parlier holds advanced degrees in engineering, Operations Research, and international security, a certificate in political philosophy from Oxford, and was among the first to complete MIT Sloan's executive program in Management, Innovation, and Technology. He is past president of the Military Applications Society of INFORMS, was vice president for the Military Operations Research Society, fellow of the Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society, elected to the International Institute of Strategic Studies, and previously served as program co-chair for ICORES.
Abstract

How can our Operations Research profession address, in imaginative and creative ways, the many persisting domestic issues and international challenges that confront us? This tutorial continues the annual ICORES series on "Strategic Analytics", the alignment of analytical methods and quantitative models with the "ends-ways-means" strategy paradigm. Functional components and enabling disciplines are described: decision support capabilities, engineering systems, dynamic strategic planning, and "engines for innovation" to encourage and guide transformational endeavors. Applications to current enterprise challenges are presented including defense resource planning, global supply chain resilience, and military recruitment. Strategic Analytics will empower us to better integrate our intellectual capacities, strategic planning acumen, diverse analytical skills, and bring them all to bear on the formidable challenges of our time.

Keywords

Strategic Analytics
Operations Research
Management Innovation
Enterprise Systems
Public Policy


Aims and Learning Objectives

Understand the concept of Strategic Analytics (SA)
Appreciate SA contributions to enterprise systems
Apply SA to socio-technical system challenges
Contribute to the development/evolution of SA


Target Audience

Interested conference attendees

Prerequisite Knowledge of Audience

An understanding of OR methods
An appreciation for OR practice
Basic strategic planning concepts
Willingness to contribute ideas, knowledge, and experience


Detailed Outline

1. The Future of OR?
2. Geopolitical Conditions
3. Domestic Challenges
4. Bridging the Ingenuity Gap: Strategic Analytics
4.1 Information Technologies
4.2 Decision Support Systems
4.3 The Internet-of-Things
4.4 Engineering Systems
4.5 Dynamic Strategic Planning
4.6 Engines for Innovation
5. Strategic Analytics: Applications
5.1 Defense Resource Planning
5.2 Materiel Enterprise Sustainment
5.3 Human Capital Acquisition
6. Strategic Analytics: Attributes and Characteristics
7. Future Directions and Final Thoughts

Secretariat Contacts
e-mail: icores.secretariat@insticc.org

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