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Q&A session during the conference
Healthcare Workshop
The School of Business, in collaboration with the Monash
Business School of Monash University Australia and
The Global Asia in the 21st Century (GA21) Platform,
organised an intensive, interactive Healthcare Workshop
titled ‘Leading System-wide Transformation of Healthcare
Services’.
This highly interactive and intensive Workshop was
facilitated by Ms Jane Evans who is the Director of Corporate
Services and Performance Excellence at Eastern Health, a
multi-site health service in the Eastern Metropolitan region
of Victoria, Australia.
The Workshop used the case of Eastern Health,
Victoria, Australia, providing an outline of the elements
of improvement program at Eastern Health. It used the
example of a major transformation to improve patient
access and flow through the hospital, demonstrating
demonstrate outcomes of safer care and a better patient
experience as a result.
Workshop: Data Analytics and Data Science Concepts with R
(Facilitator: DataViz My)
This workshop taught the principles of using R as a tool
for data analytics, data visualisation and machine learning.
The program used approaches and tools that are
considered best practices in the industry for data-drive
solutions to real-world use cases. The balance between
instructive to hands-on materials is 1:2.
Publishing in International Journals: The (Bumpy) Road to
(Possible) Success Workshop presented by Professor
Marko Sarstedt
The first part of this workshop comprised a presentation,
which sought to offer some insights into things to do (or not
to do) to maximise the chances of successful publishing,
paying attention to the role of research methods. The
second part of the workshop was interactive. Faculty
and doctoral students shared their research-in-progress,
which the instructor and all workshop participants
subsequently discussed, particularly with regard to the
gap in research each study seeks to address. Participants
received concrete recommendations on how to improve
the positioning of their studies, which is the main concern
when submitting manuscripts to international top-tier
journals. The workshop was particularly targeted at young
scholars and doctoral students interested in an academic
career, but also to more experienced researchers seeking
to strengthen their publication portfolio and enhance
their reputation.
Research Seminars
2015
‘Migrant’s remittance and financial development’ presented
by Associate Professor
Richard Brown
This research seminar explored the relationship between
remittance and financial development. Possible reasons
were explored and areas for further investigation were
identified.
‘Accessibility, vulnerability and resilience in a stochastic
model of sustainable ecotourism’ presented by Professor
Amit Batabyal
Professor Batabyal showed how the notions of accessibility,
vulnerability and resilience can be used to shed light on the
sustainable management of a natural area that is used for
ecotourism. To this end, he constructed and analysed two
queuing-theoretic models that approached the problem of
sustainable management in different ways. In the first model,
there is a capacity constraint on the number of ecotourists
that are permitted to visit the natural area and the optimal
rate at which an ecotourist agency manager provides service
to the ecotourists is endogenously determined. In the second
model, there is no capacity constraint, but the manager
endogenously ascertains the optimal number of ecotourists
who are allowed into the natural area before he provides
services to these ecotourists. The sustainability aspect of the
management problem was addressed in two ways. First, the
conceptualisations of accessibility, vulnerability, and resilience
we propose depends on certain long run metrics. Second,
the objective functions in the two models that the manager
optimises are formulated using these long run metrics.
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