David L Olson

James and H.K. Stuart Chancellors Distinguished Chair
Coordinator of Operations and Supply Chain Management


Management

Contact Information

CBA 256
P.O. Box 880491
Lincoln, NE 68588-0491
Phone: +1-402-472-4521
Fax: +1-402-472-5855
dolson3@unl.edu

Joined the college in 2001.

Expertise

• Supply Chain Integration and Management
• Decision Making
• Operations Management
• Systems Simulation and Analysis
• Quantitative Data Analysis

Education

Ph.D. - General Business at the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 1981 M.B.A. - Kearney State College in 1978 B.S. Mathematics at South Dakota School of Mines & Technology in 1966

Research Interests

Decision making, simulation, quantitative analysis, data mining, supply chain, MIS

Teaching Interests

Project management, decision support systems, simulation, quantitative analysis, decision theory, supply chain, MIS

Published In

Academy of Management Journal
Journal of Operations Management
Organizational Behavior & Human Decision Processes
European Journal of Operational Research
Journal of the Operational Research Society
Decision Sciences
Decision Support Systems
many others

Awards

Fellow, Decision Sciences Institute Program Chair 1997
Decision Sciences Annual Meeting Vice President, Decision Sciences Institute 1989-1991, 1994-1996, 2003-2005
Best Enterprise Information Systems Educator, The IFIP TC8 International Conference on Research and Practical Issues of Enterprise Information Systems, 2006
Best paper award, CONFENIS 2010 (Conference on Enterprise Information Systems), 2010
Risk Management Paper of the Year 2010 - Journal of Human and Ecological Risk Management

Documents & Links

• Resume
• Springer Book Series - Models in Risk Management

Books

• (1992) Decision Support Models and Expert Systems
• (1996) Decision Aids for Selection Problems
• (1997)(2003)(2005) Introduction to Management Science
• (1998) Business Statistics: Quality Information for Decision Analysis
• (1998) Decision Support Models and Expert Systems
• (1998)(2002) Introduction to Simulation and Risk Analysis
• (2000)(2003) Statistics, Data Analysis, and Decision Modeling
• (2001) Multiple Criteria Analysis in Strategic Siting Problems
• (2001)(2004) Introduction to Information Systems Project Management
• (2004) Managerial Issues of Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
• (2006) Introduction to Business Data Mining
• (2008) Advanced Data Mining Techniques
• (2008) Enterprise Risk Management
• (2008) New Frontiers in Enterprise Risk Management
• (2009) Enterprise Information Systems: Contemporary Trends and Issues
• (2010) Convergenomics: Strategic Innovation in the Convergence Era
• (2010) Enterprise Risk Management Models
• (2012) Supply Chain Information Systems
• (2012) Supply Chain Risk Management

Finland

• Balanced Scorecard
• Cases
• Example
• Financial Models
• Introduction
• Probability
• Selection
• Simulation Model
• Supply Chain
• Value Analysis
• VaR simulation

Journal Articles

• 1982 A Management Science Approach to Contingency Theory
• 1984 Comparison of Four Goal Programming Algorithms
• 1987 A Linear Approximation for Chance Constrained Models
• 1989 The Decentralization of Management Science and the Birth of Self-Starters
• 1990 Chance Constrained Quality Control
• 1990 Simultaneous Optimization in Process Quality Control via Prediction-Interval Constrained Programming
• 1992 Implementation of the Centroid Method of Solymosi and Dombi
• 1994 Problems of Decision Rule Elicitation in a Classification Task
• 1995 Comparison of the Rembrandt System with Analytic Hierarchy Process
• 1995 Knowledge Acquisition Tool for Case-Based Reasoning Systems
• 1995 The Rule of Rules and Examples in the Process of Knowledge Acquisition in Direct Classification Tasks
• 1997 Multi-Attribute Value Methods in Group Decision Support Systems: Past Applications and Future Potential
• 1998 Data Influences the Result More than Preferences
• 2001 Comparative Analysis of Multiattribute Techniques Based on Cardinal and Ordinal Inputs
• 2001 Comparison of Three Multicriteria Methods to Predict Known Outcomes
• 2001 Multicriteria Support for Construction Bidding
• 2001 Understanding Managerial Preferences in Selecting Equipment
• 2002 Dynamic MCDM: The Case of Urban Infrastructure Decision Making
• 2002 Ordinal Judgments in Multiattribute Decision Analysis
• 2002 Rule Induction in Data Mining: Effect of Ordinal Scales
• 2004 Comparison of First Order Predicate Logic, Fuzzy Logic and Non-Monotonic Logic as Knowledge Representation Methodology
• 2004 Requirements Negotiation Using Multi-Criteria Preference Analysis
• 2005 An Integrated Method to Evaluate Business Process Alternatives
• 2005 Comparison of Weights in TOPSIS Models
• 2005 Issues in Multinational ERP Implementation
• 2005 The Method of Grey Related Analysis to Multiple Attribute Decision Making Problems with Interval Numbers
• 2006 A Simulation Study of IT Outsourcing in the Credit Card Business: A Practical Study of a Thai Bank
• 2006 A TOPSIS data mining demonstration and application to credit scoring
• 2006 Data Mining and Simulation: A Grey Relationship Demonstration
• 2006 Integrating Systems Thinking Into IS Education
• 2006 Knowledge sharing: Effects of cooperative type and reciprocity level
• 2006 Simulation as a Pedagogical Tool for Managerial Decision Making in a Transition Economy
• 2006 Simulation of Fuzzy Multiattribute Models for Grey Relationships
• 2007 CIO's perspectives of critical success factors in ERP upgrade projects
• 2007 Data Mining in Business Services
• 2007 Evaluation of ERP Outsourcing
• 2007 How interfirm collaboration benefits IT innovation
• 2007 Similarity measures between intuitionistic fuzzy (vague) sets: A comparative analysis
• 2008 A comparison of stochastic dominance and stochastic DEA for vendor evaluation
• 2008 Entrepreneurial Applications of the Lean Approach to Service Industries
• 2008 Ethical aspects of web log data mining
• 2010 A Review of Enterprise Risk Management in Supply Chain
• 2010 Enterprise Risk Management: Coping with Model Risk in a Large Bank
• 2010 Fuzzy Multiattribute Grey Related Analysis using DEA
• 2010 Strategic Innovation in the Convergence Era
• 2010 The Impact of Convergence on Organizational Innovation
• 2011 Open Source Software Development in Enterprise Information Systems
• 2012 Comparative Analysis of Data Mining Models for Bankruptcy Prediction

Korea

• Association Rules
• BPR
• Data Mining Overview
• Description of cases
• Enterprise Risk Management
• Enterprise Systems
• ERM Telecom Case
• ERP Alternatives
• ERP Outsourcing
• ERP Training
• MarketBasket
• Questions
• Telecom Data Mining

Papers

• Conjoint Analysis and MCDA in Physician Preference Analysis
• Data Set Balancing
• Decision Making with Uncertainty and Data Mining
• Hermeneutics in IS
• Subjectivity in Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis

Presentations

• Association Rules
• CONFENIS2011Huy
• CONFENIS2011OJC
• CONFENIS2012
• Convergenomics
• Critical success factors in ERP upgrade projects
• data mining power point
• Data Set Balancing
• DataMining2011
• Decision Making with Uncertainty and Data Mining
• E-procurement
• ERM - Reykjavik
• ERP Evolution - ICEIS 2010
• ERP power point
• FAIM2012
• group MCDM power point
• Human Centered Processes - Delft
• IT overview power point
• MCDM 2011
• MCDM overview power point
• OSS ERP - CONFENIS2010
• Risk Management
• SCMS overview
• subjective MCDM power point
• SupplyChainOutsourcing
• system dynamics model
• Text Mining
• TorontoRisk2011
• Water2011Lotov

Short Stories

• Because we care...
• How Do You Start a Flood?
• Penny Cheap
• Reunion
• Roller Derby
• The Development of a Blessed Boon
• The Need for User Involvement
• The Proper Degree of Assurance
• The Simplest Car on the Lot
• Vikings

Sweden

• Reasons For and Against Enterprise System Adoption
• Seminar: Bolt-ons
• Seminar: BPR
• Seminar: Installation
• Seminar: Introduction
• Seminar: Open Systems
• Seminar: Products
• Seminar: Training
• Short Description

Research