The CSCS Academic Business Consortium (ABC) Meeting

Meeting at the General Motors Research & Development Center

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems and General Motors are pleased to announce the following Academic Business Consortium meeting.

Draft Agenda:

Academic Business Consortium [ABC] Meeting General Motors Research & Development Center Warren, MI June 11, 2001

4:00    Welcome, Gary McDonald, Director, Enterprise Systems Laboratory
        (Creative Learning Center, GM R&D Center)

4:10    Presentation via videoconference (Gray Conference Room, GM R&D Center)
        Complexity Science and OnStar: European Operations
        Jason Schulist and Joe Doyle, Corporate Strategy

4:30    Presentations (Creative Learning Center)
        Complexity Science and Onstar (Edelman paper finalist)
        Mark Paich, Corporate Strategy

        "Applications of Complexity Science to Breakthrough Thinking"
        Ken Naigus, Corporate Strategy

        "InSight: Software for Visualizing and Analyzing Complex Systems"
        Dan Reaume, Enterprise Systems Laboratory

        "Work Systems: A Grand Challenge"
        Gary McDonald, Director, Enterprise Systems Laboratory

6:00    Pizza dinner (Creative Learning Center)

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  The following are three maps giving directions to the meeting.

  1. Map for getting to the GM Tech Center.
  Directions from Ann Arbor:  M-14 East to I-275 North to I-696 West. Exit North
  at Mound Road and continue past 12-Mile.
  The GM Tech Center is the 1-square mile area bounded by 12-Mile, Mound, 13-Mile,
  and Van Dyke.

  2. Map for getting to the GM R&D Center within the GM Tech Center.
  Turn right off Mound Road at the GM Tech Center's main gate. Stop at security
  to receive a visitor's map and parking tag.
  Drive straight toward the lake until the road ends, then turn left. The building ahead 
  and to the right at the end of the lake is the GM R&D Center.

  3. Map for getting to the meeting room in the R&D Center.
  Park in the visitor's parking area indicated on the map. Enter the R&D Center
  via it's South Lobby, which faces the lake.
  Proceed to the security desk to get a visitor's pass. GM representatives should
  be here to meet you from 3:45 to 4:15,  but in case you are running late, please ask 
  security to either escort you to the Creative Learning Center or  to the Gray Conference 
  Room (depending on the time), or to call the appropriate room to request an escort.

  If anyone has further questions on directions, please feel free to contact me at
  daniel.reaume@gm.com or at 810-986-2475.