Entries categorized as ‘Education & Management Development’
The sustainable agenda has yet to find its way into textbooks within SCM. Besides sporadic paragraphs, and a occasional chapter (very rare!), most textbooks are centered around traditional performance objectives followed by related strategies and structures. Even titles of the textbooks contain more or less the same wording but in different order; operations, logistics, management, strategic, supply chain, planning, production………
Gyöngyi and I (Árni) want to do something about that.
We want to bring the sustainable agenda into the class-room in a format other than of journal articles. We want to experiment with disintermediation and the idea of open access.
More to follow on…..SCM for societal impact.
Árni
Categories: Education & Management Development · Supply Chain Management · Sustainability
Northern Lights in Logistics & Suppy Chain Management (edited by Jan Stentoft Arlbjørn, Árni Halldórsson, Marianne Jahre, and Karen Spens) has now been published by CBSPress, Denmark, and is available from their website.
This is how the editors introduce the book:
“Northern Lights in Logistics & Supply Chain Management” portrays the past, present and future research of the subject in the Nordic countries. The NOFOMA conference - a network of Nordic researchers within the field of Logistics and Supply Chain Management - has been a focal point in the contribution to the continuous improvement and further development of Nordic research. The network has also opened up for interaction with fellow researchers from other countries.
There are sixteen chapters in the book that in its own way colours the Nordic rainbow of research within Logistics and Supply Chain Management. The chapters are structured in four themes: 1) Origins and strategic aspects; 2) Research approaches in the Nordic countries; 3) Advancement of distribution strategies and; 4) Emerging application areas of logistics and SCM. The chapters provide an understanding and, perhaps more importantly, consciousness for scholars that are part of this research environment: Where are we now, what have we been influenced by, and in what area are we able to provide positive impact? The aim of the book is also to contribute to increased visibility to fellow international scholars within Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
Árni
Categories: Education & Management Development · Research & Methodology · Supply Chain Management
After receiving it twice within a week, it’s time to have a look at Patrik Jonsson’s new textbook on, as it says, Logistics and Supply Chain Management. As a completely new book it has the advantage of working in SCM thoroughly through all of it - as opposed to 7th editions of other books… Patrik managed to avoid the logistics functions trap, i.e. has chapters on “the material flow” instead of treating each function separately. Well done. Most of the mini-cases in the book are European ones (including many Nordic ones, for all of those who talk about “going to Europe” when crossing the Baltic Sea or the North Sea 
), not surprisingly, McGraw-Hill also positioned the book for the European market.
Gyöngyi
PS. A pity it’s written in English, though - I’m hunting for a good book in Swedish for our basic course…
Categories: Academic publications · Book review · Education & Management Development · Logistics · Supply Chain Management
Nay, this is not another dissertation award or best paper of a conference or a journal. Rather, it’s a competition for undergrads (whatever that means in an US context, assuming it’s BSc/BBA students). SCM-related papers can be entered in the competition till May 1, 2008.
Gyöngyi
Categories: Education & Management Development · Supply Chain Management
There are lots of awards for supply chain excellence for corporations - as well as for research. As for the latter, the University of Arkansas just announced its 2008 SCMRC doctoral dissertation award. Dissertation proposals of 15 pages (plus CVs of the applicant and her/his supervisor, and a letter of application) should be submitted by Aug 31 ( 2008 ) to Jim Crowell who also answers questions about the award.
However, there are other awards as well, practically every SCM-related professional organisation has its own award. Some are for dissertation proposals, but more commonly, awards are given for people who have recently finished their doctorate (PhD / DBA / DSc). Mind you, most awards have some regional restrictions; LOGY in Finland only giving awards for people who finished their PhD at a Finnish university etc. Still, here are some to watch out for or to inspire as to where one could find similar awards “at home”:
- One of the awards for young PhDs (anyone who defended their doctoral thesis in logistics / SCM since Jun 1, 2007) is CILT UK’s dissertation award for which applications are due on May 16.
- CSCMP’s dissertation award is usually open for applications by the end of February (past for 2008, but doctoral students should keep this in mind for 2009). Again, this is for young PhDs.
And, apart from these, there are always best paper awards at conferences (LRN, Nofoma, POMS… you name it). Nofoma even gives a special best paper award to doctoral students - BUT, only those qualify who wrote a paper alone and/or with other doctoral students. This is to ensure that it’s not the supervisor’s work
Gyöngyi
Categories: Academic publications · Education & Management Development · Research & Methodology · Supply Chain Management
There are a number of interesting new books on the SCM course book market, e.g. HUBS’ co-operative effort of a book on “global logistics and supply chain management“. Having said so, it is always difficult to find THE course book on SCM. Apart from mastering the content, a course-book should be well written, and ideally, be easy to adopt in a particular class. The last bit is tricky as it depends on the level of the class, the focus of the course, as well as e.g. regional interests in particular topics.
Thus a bit more than a year ago we discussed the issue of demand management related to course books. Things obviously changed since then - although publishing houses still visit us way after we have to make our decisions for the next year, some have implemented Árni’s idea of customised books on demand. Apparently a big hit in the US, custom publishing is now entering the European market as well. This will certainly facilitate innovative courses and a differentiation in the “course market”, plus the adaptation of course materials to questions of particular regional interest.
Out of curiosity, has any of you SCM educators used this kind of a system? What are your experiences with it?
Gyöngyi
Categories: Book review · Education & Management Development · Supply Chain Management
February 21, 2008 · 1 Comment
Bloom’s Taxonomy to classify forms of learning was a frequent reference at a teaching competence programme I attended some years ago; a simple pyramid in several layers. But has technology changed the means educators — or more imporantly, students — can access to facilitate learning experience?
The notion of Faculty 2.0 discussed here was a welcome for educators that have not grown up with the same type or access to technology as their students. This piece on TeacherTube — Pay Attention — is a brief but gentle overview of core learning objectives and how our view on and experience with technology may differ.
Árni
Categories: Education & Management Development
Thanks to all of you who submitted an abstract to Nofoma 2008 - and special thanks to those who wrote sthg for the Educators Day! Don’t forget your abstract verification number 
All educators, I’d like to draw your attention to the ITP programme; right now we have a really good bunch of SCM educators attending - if you’re lucky, that’s also the case in further “editions” of the programme. It should not go unmentioned that in 2 years (i.e. in 2009/2010) it’s the turn of the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University, as to say, Sunil Chopra) to organise the entire programme. That should be special to SCM educators at least.
So, asking in the spirit of Mel Silberman, how many of you will be attending…?
Gyöngyi
Categories: Conferences · Education & Management Development · Supply Chain Management
Having received the latest news from the “Kulturmanagement network“, I’m all for the “M” in SCM to be changed to “music”. As the Dec issue of this newsletter points out, no cultural event exists without logistics :-) In fact, no event does, as Nina Modig’s series of publications on event logistics will highlight. One of the issues we all remember from Nofoma 2007 and LRN 2007 was the food - or lack of it
But back to cultural administration*, one of the most interesting insights was to see its very definition looking at processes (in terms of material flows, locational questions…) rather than events, which the authors linked to a call for including logistics in the toolbox for cultural administrators. New are thus a bachelors, and a masters programme in “cultural engineering” in Magdeburg that combines cultural administration and knowledge management with indeed, logistics.
Gyöngyi
* Kulturmanagement stands for “cultural administration”; one of these lovely concepts that is so difficult to translate to other languages. Just see our debate on SCM in different languages…
Categories: Education & Management Development · Socks and sandals
The results of the new PISA study were officially announced a week ago; with not too many changes. What is almost more interesting than the study itself is the debate around it. While some just talk about “adding cash” to educational systems, others refer to different sorts of educational reforms. Yet, according to a previous McKinsey report, quality of teaching and teachers(!), supporting students lagging behind are factors that seem to correlate with results in comparative studies such as the PISA one - while sheer spending on education does not. But what makes SCM education “good”? It would be nice to more studies on SCM education as well. For the first time, the NOFOMA Educators’ Day has a call for papers… with an abstract deadline on Jan 15, 2008. (see the wall) Who will be at the top of the SCM class?
Gyöngyi
Categories: Call for papers · Education & Management Development
