Samuelson, Douglas A. (InfoLogix)

Topics:

Why Smart Managers Do Stupid Things
Humorous: how systems failures undermine success, and what to do about them. (Elementary)

Why Things Go Wrong: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (Elementary)

Quantitative Methods in Public Policy Analysis (Elementary or Intermediate)

Communicating Technical Information to Decision-Makers (Elementary)

Health Care Information Systems Design and Management (Intermediate)

InfoWar.com
Managing Knowledge and Information in Business Competition (Elementary)

Statistical Issues in Human Rights Monitoring (Intermediate)

Statistical Reasoning from Anecdotal Data (Intermediate)

Probability Modeling in Health Care (Intermediate or Advanced)

Analyzing Queueing Systems Which Acquire Customers (Advanced)

Background:

• B.A. Statistics - University of California-Berkeley
• M.S. Operations Research - George Washington University
• D.Sc. Operations Research - George Washington University

Dr. Samuelson is President of InfoLogix, Inc., a small consulting firm specializing in recognizing technical problems in complicated situations. He invented predictive dialing, a method to decide when to dial in outbound telephone call centers. He has been a successful high-tech entrepreneur and executive, consultant, and Federal policy analyst.