Provisional Conference Programme

Keynote Speakers

Sharing Supply Chain Secrets: Developing Transparency

Professor Lamming will explore the difficulties experienced by managers in supply relationships in dealing with strategic information. Established approaches appear to be based upon notional customer superiority and supplier acquiescence - resulting in unnecessarily high transaction costs. The presentation will include an account of current work in the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply which is developing practical ways of changing this situation, and a conceptual model for the principle of transparency.

Professor Richard Lamming

Richard Lamming became fascinated by supply chain relationships as fresh engineering graduate apprentice, working in Purchasing at Jaguar Cars, Coventry, UK. Twenty five years later, he is still fascinated by them - and with what is wrong with the way they are managed.

Since 1991, Professor Richard Lamming has held the CIPS Chair of Purchasing and Supply Management at the School of Management, University of Bath, in the UK, where he founded the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS). He was Director of CRiSPS until 2001 and Head of Corporate Development for the School of Management between 1996 and 2000. He is now Head of Research for the School.

From 1986-90 he was a senior member of the International Motor Vehicle Programme, based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) and the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex (UK). He was subsequently part of a small team which contributed to the best-selling book, The Machine That Changed the World (1990). It was this book which launched the concept of lean production. Professor Lamming developed the concept of lean supply in another book in 1993: Beyond Partnership: Strategies for Innovation and Lean Supply

In addition to his academic work, he is a non-executive director of Vendigital Ltd. (direct materials internet auctions) and is a member of the Board of Advisors for Diligent Software Inc. (California) (software for strategic sourcing).

Professor Guy Fitzgerald
Director of Research in the Department of Information Systems and Computing Brunel University

The Effective Management and Development of Information Systems

Guys research interests are concerned with the effective management and development of information systems (IS). He has published widely in these areas including information strategy, systems development methods, executive ISs, and IS outsourcing. He is co-author, with David Avison, of Information Systems Development: Methodologies, Techniques and Tools and he is founder and co-editor of the Information Systems Journal (ISJ) from Blackwell Science. He combines academic and consulting activities to help ensure the effective use of IT within business and organisations.

Prior to Brunel he was the Cable & Wireless Professor of Business Information Systems at Birkbeck College, University of London. He was a Fellow of Templeton College, University of Oxford and has been at Warwick University. He has also worked in the computer industry with companies such as British Telecom, Mitsubishi and CACI Inc, International. Last semester he was on research leave from Brunel at Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA.

Guy is a member of a number of journal Editorial Boards and conference Programme Committees, including both the International and European conferences (ICIS and ECIS). He was International Liaison for ICIS in 1999 and is an elected AIS (Association of Information Systems) Council representative for Region 2 (Europe, Africa and the Middle East).

Paul Wardle
Director of the European Office for Yorkshire & Humberside

Paul Wardle has worked in Brussels since 1998 and has been Director of Yorkshire & Humber's European Office for most of that time. His work for the region began in 1994 and he was part of the small team which started its Regional Assembly two years later. He works on a range of European policies, with particular knowledge of regional policy and Structural Funds. Paul first became involved in European policy and funding issues at Birmingham City Council and, before that, worked for several years in Berlin, Heidelberg and Milan. He is a graduate in Modern History & German and has a higher degree in Economics.

After Dinner Speaker

Yvonne Trimble
Senior Officer of HM Customs and Excise

Anything to Declare or How to Smuggle Successfully in Three Easy Lessons.

Worked almost exclusively in the field of prohibitions and restrictions - specialising in drug enforcement. Currently in charge of Leeds/Bradford airport, Stourton ICD, Sheffiield City airport and most of the Yorkshire and Humberside police force areas.

Worked abroad extensively targetting international drug traffickers in various countries including many I now can't go back to. Operated in Equador, Venezuala, Uruguay, Cyprus, Ukraine, Estonia, Trinidad and Tobago amongst others, sometimes for several months at a time.

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