EVENT RECAP
Research and Practice in OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT We are living in unprecedented times and such times call for pathbreaking innovations and their implementation at rocket speed. Gone are the days when it used to take years in defining the need for change and then working on it. The last year, thanks to Covid19, taught us to be on our toes in bringing about change at the fastest pace ever to sustain and survive in the globally turbulent and dynamic marketplace. This was a strong message from the recently held e-Conference hosted by Symbiosis Institute of Operations Management Nashik with the theme, “Research and Practice in Operations Management: Lessons from COVID-19”. The International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management (ICOSCM 2021) provided insights on challenges and shortcomings that Covid-19 has exposed in supply chains. This report provides you a quick takeaway of the thoughts of the keynote speakers as well as the winners of the Best Research Papers Award, held during the day-long summit. We were especially thrilled to listen to the keynote speakers’ views on how operations management would shape up in the future and how can companies prepare themselves for the change.
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n the words of Dr. Vandana Sonwaney, Director, SIOM, “The domain of Operations Management has always been a challenging endeavor owing to its turbulent and uncertain nature. But what it has been witnessing during the times of the COVID-19 pandemic is so unprecedented and drastic that it signals a distress call for immediate intervention by strategic revamping through well thought-out and prudent restructuring of supply chains to alleviate the challenges for businesses across the globe. This demands an extensive and exhaustive display of scholarly work from the greatest and
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accomplished minds under the gamut of Operations Management.” Keeping these thought-provoking insights in mind, the main objective of SIOM’s International Conference on Operations and Supply Chain Management (ICOSCM 2021) was to aim for greater insights on the challenges and shortcomings that an unprecedented pandemic like COVID-19 has exposed in the world of operations, from the experts as well as the researchers. Let us hear it from the winners on their ideas and how they are going to transform the operations management domain…
