{"id":176,"date":"2018-05-25T17:21:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2018-05-26T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T10:14:27","slug":"lss-competition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/lss-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Lean Six Sigma Case Study Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>IEOM Lean Six Sigma Case Study Competition<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>The IEOM Lean Six Sigma Case Study Competition<\/strong>\u00a0will recognize outstanding case studies in the area of lean and six sigma. Selected papers will be considered for the competition and must be presented at the IEOM South Africa Conference. The paper will be judged based on the technical content and presentation. Winners will receive award certificates. The winning awards will be given at the IEOM South Africa Conference award event.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Eligibility Criteria:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Case study must be related to real-life applications<\/li>\n<li>Practitioners or academicians can join the competition<\/li>\n<li>Papers can be industry projects as part of a course or co-op\/internship, or research projects done at the academic institution.<\/li>\n<li>The paper must be presented at the IEOM South Africa Conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Important Dates:<\/strong><br \/>\nDeadline for submission of papers:\u00a0July 15, 2018.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Paper Guidelines:<\/strong><br \/>\nAuthors must follow the IEOM paper guidelines (under Authors menu) since the winning papers will be published in the conference proceedings.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Submission:<\/strong><br \/>\nEach paper must be submitted online:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/abstract\/index.cfm?ID=eX83H9v\">https:\/\/www.xcdsystem.com\/IEOM\/abstract\/index.cfm?ID=eX83H9v<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Judging:<\/strong><br \/>\nA group of academics \/ professionals will serve as judge. Scoring rubrics will be used for both parts of the judging.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Winners:<\/strong><br \/>\n1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive award certificates and plaques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IEOM Lean Six Sigma Case Study Competition The IEOM Lean Six Sigma Case Study Competition\u00a0will recognize outstanding case studies in the area of lean and six sigma. Selected papers will be considered for the competition and must be presented at the IEOM South Africa Conference. The paper will be judged based on the technical content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ieomsociety.org\/southafrica2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}