Management Science Seminar: Developments in the Uses of Strategy Mapping/Causal Mapping, Professor Colin Eden

Event Date: 9 April 2025

Location: Strathclyde Business School, Cathedral Wing, CW 404a

Time: 2-3pm

The seminar will provide brief summaries of some of the recent developments in the use of causal mapping.  Topics will be illustrated with reference to real case examples. Most of these follow from the development of Group Explorer into Strategyfinder.

Systemic Risk assessment and strategy development:

CASE EXAMPLE: The COVID-19 pandemic: the Norway case. Embedding a group support system. Response v responsiveness.

Developing and Analysing ‘future shocks’ scenarios - learning by reverse engineering historical case studies into strategy maps:

CASE EXAMPLE: Reverse engineering example: the Labour mission statement. Norway cyber-attacks.

Fast problem structuring/solving by the client of OR-MS, and a method to optimise who to involve?

CASE EXAMPLE: Violence in schools in BC Canada

Understanding and exploiting competitive advantage – theory to practice.

Exploring patterns

Stakeholder analysis and management as a part of the OR process.

Exploring dynamics

Published: 11 March 2025