What: The Operations Interest Group at IIM Lucknow and CoolAvenues.com invites business school students to participate in Opsyrus 2006, the paper writing competition.

Details

~ Topics

• Supply Chain Issues in Disaster Management
• Infrastructure Development in India: Challenges & Opportunities from Operations Management Perspective

~ Prizes

• First Prize: Rs 15,000
• Second Prize: Rs 10,000
• Third Prize: Rs 5,000

~ The top-10 best teams will get certificates of participation, and their papers will be published by Coolavenues.com in their Knowledge Zone.

Rules & regulations

~ All students currently pursuing full-time post-graduate management degree from any management school are eligible.

~ Each team can comprise of maximum two members, both from same institute.

~ A team can submit entries for both topics.

~ Each paper must be preceded by an executive summary of not more than 500 words.

~ The word count should not exceed 2000 words (excluding summary and tables/ graphs/ appendices).

~ The document must be prepared in Microsoft Word in Times New Roman, font size 12 with 1.5 line spacing.

~ The paper must be an original piece of work and must not have been submitted earlier elsewhere.

~ Plagiarism will strictly lead to disqualification.

~ References to existing literature must be appropriately quoted.

~ The participants should furnish the following details on the cover page:

• Name
• Contact address
• Phone number
• e-mail address
• Name of the institute
• Word count of the paper

~ The name of the participants or any other information should not be mentioned anywhere else in the paper other than the first page.

~ The submitted papers will be an exclusive property of OIG, and OIG shall reserve the rights to use the papers in the form that they deem fit.

~ In case of any disputes, the decision of the panel of judges and the organizers shall be final and binding.

~ Please mail the soft copy of the paper to oig.iiml@gmail.com.

~ The e-mail subject and the title of the softcopy should be "SCM/ IDOM_first names of team members", where SCM is code for first topic and IDOM is code for second topic.

~ For further details, please visit http://opsyrus.coolavenues.com/.

~ Or, mail to oig@iiml.ac.in.

Important dates

~ Please send in your papers before November 10.

~ The results for Opsyrus 2006 will be declared on December 15.