REPLY Separate Professional Conference (SD6310)

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Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>

Hi Colm

There are certainly other reasons not to communicate their work from
business people besides the risk of opening their kimonos.

First communicating to uniformed populations about a problematic situation
is difficult.
Academic people (people teaching) are more prepared to this kind of
difficulty.

Secondly a concrete application is very different from a text book example.
I did not find any SD book that really explains the difficulty of using SD
with a concrete real example.

For example communicating my problematic even to SD people would
take several hours and the way the SD conference is working is not adapted
to this situation. After having spent several hours explaining the context,
it would take
another several hours to explain the difficulties and the experiences
accumulated through the time.

I do not think that anybody in the SD conference would accept to spend that
time, unless being especially interested in the subject.
And after all that work what would be the payback for an eventual candidate
accepting to spend a lot of time preparing the documentation etc..?

One must understand that the motivation of business people is not the same
as academics (publish or perish).

The problem encountered by the SD community is not unusual.
I am a member of INFORMS and member of the revenue management and pricing
section.
In that section, things are worse than in the SD business SIG.
There are no posts, and the only justification of the section is to prepare
some papers in the annual conference!
And revenue management and pricing is a field with much more books, reviews
and consultants  than SD.

There are too in the main reviews a lot of papers that as a practitioner I
find unusable.
I have unsubscribed to all the revenue management reviews I tried to
decipher.

So one must accept some realities and be already happy that there is an
annual SD conference, an SD forum and SIGS, even if there is a lot to
improve.
Regards.
Jean-Jacques Laublé.
Allocar Strasbourg, Eurli France.
Posted by  Jean-Jacques Laublé <jean-jacques.lauble at wanadoo.fr>
posting date  Fri, 2 Mar 2007 10:43:59 +0100