Marshall Fisher
UPS Professor of Operations & Information Management
The Wharton School
The Seven Eight Habits of HIghly Effective Operations Research Implementers

Fisher will kick off the conference and the “Theory of Practice” track with reflections on the practices that separate success from failure in implementing OR solutions to business problems. Fisher’s pioneering research in logistics and supply chain coordination has been deployed by Fortune 500 companies and recognized by many awards. As a consultant, he has worked with ExxonMobil, Frito Lay, DuPont, General Motors, IBM, Nokia, Spiegel and many others. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a recipient of the 1983 Franz Edelman Award for excellence in applied OR.

Glenn Wegryn
Associate Director of Global Analytics
The Procter & Gamble Company
Sustaining a Vibrant OR Practice Within the Company

Drawing on 20+ years of experience in analysis and management of a successful analytics organization, Wegryn will share perspectives on key principles for sustaining and growing a vibrant analytics practice within a corporation. Wegryn has rebuilt the OR practice at P&G into a world-class practitioner’s organization. He is an acknowledged expert in strategic sourcing of manufacturing capacity on a global basis and for overall methodologies for creating effective supply networks for P&G and its affiliates.

Thomas H. Davenport
Professor and Director of Research
Babson Executive Education, Babson College
Competing on Analytics

A widely published author and acclaimed speaker, Davenport will describe how organizations are beginning to compete on the basis of their analytical capabilities and fact-based decision making. This work is drawn from his recent study of 30 companies that have attempted to increase their analytical orientations. Davenport holds the President’s Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College. He is the author of 11 books, as well as over 100 articles in publications such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review and the Financial Times.