It is my pleasure to announce that our call for PDW submissions for 2017 is now live on the AOM web site.
I have also pasted the contents below for your convenience and sincerely hope that many of you will submit proposals and that we will have a great turnout in Atlanta this summer. This year's theme, "At the Interface" should really speak to us as consultants, since so many of us are privileged to do that kind of work every day.
2017 MC Division Professional Development Workshops: Call for Proposals
The purpose of the Management Consulting Division is to advance knowledge and understanding of management consulting and to aid in the development of consultants from the perspectives of research, practice and teaching. The division is focused on the discipline of consulting, as well as the consulting industry with an underlying goal of creating a bridge that integrates scholarship and practice. The Division very much encourages interdisciplinary and integrative approaches related to established and major practice areas of consulting. At the MC division, we strongly believe that in order to better help organizations, research and practice must to be integrated.
Members are encouraged to submit workshops that share useful ways to bring management theory from the classroom into the field and vice versa. Professional Development Workshops are encouraged, but not required, to tie in with the Annual Meeting theme. This year's theme, "At the Interface," gives us an opportunity to thoroughly explore what it means to work as management consultants. To be effective in the field, consultants must not only have a thorough understanding of theory, but apply it in various contexts, adapting to changing circumstances in order to best serve our client organizations. We inhabit the interstitial spaces between organizations and the external environment, moving from one context to the next with one foot inside the organization and the other in our own firms, practices, or Universities.
Thus, you may consider PDW submissions that either address issues in the field of management consulting (consulting processes, consulting outcomes, research in the consulting industry, teaching management consulting...), or issues connected with the Annual Meeting theme, for example:
How do management consultants function as boundary subjects working with different organizations, being privy to confidences but not "insiders"?
What business models are most effective for developing a private consulting practice?
In today's "gig economy," what lessons can we as consultants share with other professionals to help them navigate the uncertainties of ad-hoc projects and mobility?
What are consulting approaches, methods, or tools that consultants use to bring theory into practice and lessons from the field into academia?
How can we teach students to bridge the scholar-practitioner gap more effectively upon graduation?
What does it mean to be at the interface of theory and practice and how do we as consultants navigate in that space?
How can scholar-practitioners communicate theory in ways that encourage practitioners to use its lessons in their businesses?
Evaluation of the submitted PDW proposals will be made based on:
Bridging: Does this proposal explicitly link theory/practice and/or academics/consultants/practitioners?
Impact: Will this PDW provide immediate usable advice, tools, and templates for our members? Is this PDW enhancing sharing actionable knowledge among participants? What are the implications of applying the knowledge across industries?
Novelty: Does the proposal hold something new? Is there an innovative, provocative and/or interesting take-on the topic, method or format?
Quality: Is this proposal designed around important topics and will the PDW be done in an excellent manner (format, interaction, expert presenters...)?
The MC Division is highly diverse and international, so we welcome and encourage innovative and integrative wide-reaching submissions for PDWs at the 2017 Annual Meeting (to be held in Atlanta, GA, USA). Our division prides itself on welcoming scholars and practitioners, including both established professionals and students. Submissions from established members of our division, as well as newcomers who are interested in the field of management consulting and research, and/or would like to explore new research issues, are welcomed.
PDW Proposals must include:
Workshop title
Full description of the workshop and activities
Time requirements of the workshop
Submitter (contact person) and presenter(s) information, including name, affiliation, address, phone, and e-mail for each person
Division or Interest Group sponsor solicited and why
Suggested Division or Interest Group co-sponsors (which are highly recommended given the limited time slots we have in the Academy's overall PDW program)
How you intend to create a productive audience interaction and participation
Also please note that the "Rule of 3" applies to PDW submissions. Therefore, no one can submit or be a part of more than 3 PDW submissions (this is in addition to the Rule of 3 for the main scholarly program).