The Group consists of information specialists and engineers and contains those concerned with operations management and management information systems. Specialist interest is with argumentation theory , which focus on the structural patterning of decision making and reasoning in speech, and aims to develop technical support systems for group decision making. In addition, the global production of software is of specialist interest. John Sillince, G. Harindranath, and Duska Rosenberg. Although small, the operations and technology group conduct research into a range of business and manufacturing related fields including strategy, innovation and environmental issues.
Current projects have an environmental angle looking at how firms introduce new technology.
Alan Pilkington, Romano Dyerson, Tom Lawton, and Audley Genus. The market potential of alternatively fueled cars in the US and Europe. Part of the Reed grant will support projects in this area. Randolph Trappey, Isabella Chaney, Derrick Chong and Gul Berna Ozcan. We also offer a PhD programme geared to providing academic and business leaders of the future a secure grounding in research methods and skills as part of the traditional PhD research experience.