The Evidence-Based Management Collaborative Meeting III:
Capacity Building and Prototyping

A Project Sponsored by

Academy of Management
Carnegie Mellon University
(Tepper School of Business and Heinz School of Public Policy & Management)
Advanced Institute of Management
John Wiley & Sons

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Meeting Site: CBI Classroom, 3rd Floor Posner Hall, Tepper School of Business,
Carnegie Mellon University
Hotel: Holiday Inn University Center, Pittsburgh

Objectives for Meeting III:
  1. Prototyping: Identifying the best applications developed by Collaborative participants and preparing them for use and dissemination.
  2. Launching: Implementing EBMgt-promoting activities (syntheses, practice summaries, publications, EBMgt Conferences at professional meetings, etc.)

Thursday, June 26, 2008 (Download Schedule, PDF)

 TIME  TOPIC/ACTIVITY
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm LUNCH and WELCOME
  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

RECONNECT

  • Agenda and Goals for EBMgt III
  • What’s new with you in EBMgt?
  • What do you think of the Credo? (Thank you, Rob)
  2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

TASK FORCE REPORTS and DISCUSSION

  • MGT REVIEW TASK FORCE
    Jason Azuma, Ravi Madhavan, Paul Salipante, Richard Adams
  • CONNECTIONS w/ASSOCIATIONS
    Jean Bartunek, Jone Pierce, Deb Cohen (SHRM),
    Christopher Woock (Conference Board), Rob Briner (AIM)
  • AOM DIVISION REPORTS – Interest on part of divisions for engaging in synthesis, evidence summaries for practice, teaching EBMgt etc.
    Gail, Miguel, Ravi, Tim, Jean, Jone
  • COMPANY CONTACTS
    Bob Ford, Christopher Woock
  • END-User TEST Approach (advising Wiley, AOM and SIOP) -
    Marta Mooney and team
  • DATA QUALITY ACT: Challenge or Opportunity?
    Marta Mooney
  3:30 pm - 3:45 pm BREAK
  3:45 pm – 5:30 pm

TASK FORCE REPORTS and DISCUSSION CONT’d

  • EBI DEVELOPMENT –
    Rob Briner, Miguel Olivas, Severin Hornung , Gail Porter
  • AOM April Meeting w/Board of Governors
    Rob Briner, Denise Rousseau
  • Losers Cry Louder Than Winners Cheer
    What are the downsides of EBMgt, for scholars, for practitioners, for association-based groups (e.g., strategy researchers?)
    How might these be addressed or countered?
  5:30 pm – 6:00 pm

FOLLOW UP PLANS

  • Opportunities and activities to pursue based upon reports

QUICK FEEDBACK

  • How are we doing so far?
  • Suggested changes?
  RETURN TO HOTEL—Shuttle Bus
  7:30 pm DINNER at Church Brew Works --- Trolley Pick up 7:15pm


Friday, June 27, 2008

 TIME  TOPIC/ACTIVITY
  7:45 am Bus from Hotel to Carnegie Mellon
  8:00 am - 8:30 am

BREAKFAST

  8:30 am - 10:00 am

PRIMING THE PUMP: Existing Syntheses We Can Use as Basis for Practitioner Summaries

  • OVERVIEW OF NEW VENUES FOR EBMGT and SYSTEMATIC REVIEW – Denise
  • LEARNING FROM EVIDENCE IN INNOVATION RESEARCH - Jason Azuma
  • OB META-ANALYSES COMPLETED SINCE 1990 –There are a lot, how might they be used? Paul Salipante, Ravi, Josh Manning
  • DESIGNING PRODUCTS PRACTITIONERS CAN PUT TO USE - Jayne Speicher
10:00 am - 10:15 am BREAK
10:15 am - 11:15 am

DESIGNING SYNTHESIS: A COMMON USER FRIENDLY FORMAT --Facilitated Discussion

  • What types of information are critical in summaries for practitioners?
11:15 am - 12:00 pm

REFLECTIONS: Learning from the Practice and Experience of EBMedicine

  • Georges Potworowski presents with comments by Practice Experts (Jayne, Chris, John, Christopher…)
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm LUNCH
  1:30 pm - 1:45 pm

GROUP PHOTO

  1:45 pm - 3:15 pm

BREAK OUT EXERCISE

Using Meta-Analysis #1 TBA, Outline Practitioner Summary
(questions to answer, key points, specific to meta-analysis domain)

Report Back

  3:15 pm - 3:30 pm BREAK
  3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

BREAK OUT Round Two

Using Meta-Analysis #2, Do it again. What are the Learnings?

Report Back

  4:30 pm - 5:15 pm

TEACHING EBMgt

James O’Brien, Judi DePalma, Jodi Goodman, interested others?

  5:15 pm - 5:45 pm

SIOP Conference W/in a Conference on EBMgt – New Orleans 2009

  • It’s all ours. How can we make the most of it?
  5:45 pm

FEEDBACK & ADJOURNMENT

  • Suggested changes for tomorrow’s agenda
  7:15 pm Bus Transportation to Dinner in Strip District
  7:30 pm - 10:30 pm DINNER - Lidia's Denise's favorite Restaurant

Saturday, June 28, 2008

 TIME  TOPIC/ACTIVITY
  8:15 am Bus from Hotel to Carnegie Mellon
  8:00 am - 8:30 am

BREAKFAST

  9:00 am - 10:00 am

LAUNCHING "Science You Can Use"

  • Content/Format/Review Process/Scholar & Practioner Partnering/Volunteers
10:30 am - 11:30 am

BOOK(S)

  • Handbook (Tentative outline prepared only as a starting point for discussion)
  • Workbook - Ravi/Denise/ALL
  • ... a next meeting focused on book(s)?
11:30 am - 12:00 pm

CLOSING

  • Evaluation: How well have the goals been met?
  • Impact: What am I doing differently? What do we see others doing differently?
  • Celebration: Whether you are near the goals you love, love the goals you are near ... (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Channeling Weick)