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Spotlights
Our mission is to bring together executives from
leading corporations with Texas faculty and students to identify,
document, research, develop and disseminate best practices in Supply
Chain Management.
Joint Research Center Sustainability Symposium on Holistic Product Design
On May 14-15, 2008 three UT research centers will come together to explore new ways to look at creating cross-functional, integrated design processes through the lens of sustainability.
This symposium titled “Achieving Customer Impact by Balancing Environmental Intelligence, Supply Chain Optimization and Product Design” will provide an opportunity for Supply Chain, Marketing and Advanced Manufacturing executives to look at best practices, issues and opportunities for holistic product design; beginning with the customer/consumer need and moving backward to raw material acquisition. Participants will also explore how to achieve the optimum balance of aesthetic beauty/functionality, low cost and customer/consumer delight.
This event is co-hosted by the Supply Chain Management Center of Excellence (SCMC) and the Center for Customer Insight and Marketing Solutions (CCIMS) with support from the Advanced Manufacturing Center (AMC). Participation is limited to SCMC and CCIMS sponsors, McCombs School of Business faculty and students, and AMC sponsors and affiliated faculty by invitation. For more information, please contact
Diana Busler.
“Sponsors Only” Session with Dr. Bob Johansen
Dr. Bob Johansen, the Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for the
Future (IFTF), visited the McCombs School of Business on March 20,
2008. In an interactive session titled “Sensing the Future to
Compete in the Present,” Dr. Johansen presented IFTF’s latest
Ten-Year Forecast to global future forces, as well as the IFTF
Foresight to Insight to Action approach as it is being used in
corporations, nonprofits and government agencies.
Dr. Johansen holds
a PhD from Northwestern University, as well as a divinity school
degree focused on comparative religions. He is a social scientist by
training with more than 30 years experience as a forecaster
exploring the human side of new technologies. For more information
on Dr. Johansen, please visit the Institute for the Future.
This
event was co-hosted by the Supply Chain Management Center of
Excellence (SCMC) and the Center for Customer Insight and Marketing
Solutions (CCIMS). Participation was limited to SCMC and CCIMS
sponsors, McCombs School of Business faculty and students.
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