International conference on Emerging Operations Paradigm

Unlike the customer of the 70s and 80s who could be pleased and cajoled into buying a product simply by offering an appropriate level of price reduction, the 21st century customer wants perfect product quality, highest levels of customization/personalization, rapid delivery, genuine customer service and affordable price all at the same time. Noteworthy is the fact that due to the ubiquity of Internet, globalization of businesses, strides in technologies, and emerging dynamic solutions in supply chain management; it has become possible for innovative companies to offer the simultaneous advantage of price, quality, flexibility, delivery, and service. Recent economic and financial meltdown have served to further strengthen the role of operations management in improving a companys strategic position and thereby its profitability. Many eminent business strategists are calling for return to the old and golden ways of doing business; they are, in essence, recommending that businesses earn the global leadership and sustained strategic advantage through the deployment of price, quality, flexibility, and delivery as the vehicles of competition that delight the customers in a more sustainable fashion. Needless to say that each of these competitive priorities is impacted either in entirety or in substantial measure by a firms efficacy of its operations. Accordingly, the challenge for the operations and supply chain managers, scholars, and practitioners is to construct new paradigms of strategies and management instruments that deliver high profitability and market share through product and service values that customers cherish rather than through financial wizardry.
The International Conference on Emerging Paradigms in Operations and Supply Chain Management scheduled to be held between August 10 and 12, 2009 at one of the exotic cities in Southern India Coimbatore offers a unique opportunity to stimulate scholarly discussion on the kind of paradigms of operations and supply chain strategies and management techniques just mentioned. Furthermore, the conference offers a platform through tutorials and workshops, and presentations to transform these paradigms into workable, pragmatic, nuts-and-bolt solutions and convert half-baked ideas into fully operative instruments of success.
We are very excited to invite you to share your thoughtful research and scholarly works in this conference. Abstracts/proposals/fully developed scholarly works : a paper or a manuscript in progress, a perspective or conceptual think-piece, a case study, new theoretical or empirical research, tutorial ideas, meta-research and meta-analyses about operational modules, strategic trends and directions, a futuristic model of managerial/strategic scenarios, and optimal/ heuristic solutions to operational models should be e-mailed to eop_2009@karunya.edu or eop2009@gmail.com by May 25th, 2009.

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