February 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Panama: Marketing: University of Illinoi: David E. O’Gorman was a Marketing Specialist in the Department of Planning of the Agrarian Reform Commission of Panama while in the Peace Corps
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February 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Panama: Marketing: University of Illinoi: David E. O’Gorman was a Marketing Specialist in the Department of Planning of the Agrarian Reform Commission of Panama while in the Peace Corps
David E. O’Gorman was a Marketing Specialist in the Department of Planning of the Agrarian Reform Commission of Panama while in the Peace Corps
David E. O’Gorman was a Marketing Specialist in the Department of Planning of the Agrarian Reform Commission of Panama while in the Peace Corps
Welcome to David E. O’Gorman’s Home Page
INTRODUCTION:
At the University of Illinois at Springfield, Professor O’Gorman teaches MIS 531 Strategic Decision Support Systems and MIS561 Competitive Information Systems in the MIS Department. In the Business Administration Department he teaches Business Strategy and Marketing. A thrust of all of his courses is the creative utilization of new technologies.
BACKGROUND:
He is a former marketing research professional with Bristol-Myers, who later worked in Marketing Development at Marathon Oil Company. While at Marathon Oil, he designed and supervised the development of a large (3 years, 7 programmer/analysts) decision support system for the Marketing Division.
Other work experience included serving as Assistant Director of the Cleveland Commission on Higher Education (a consortium of the eight educational institutions in Cleveland); Co-Director of the Urban Educational Leadership Development Project (a nationwide consortium of 21 colleges and universities); Marketing Specialist in the Department of Planning of the Agrarian Reform Commission of Panama while in the Peace Corps; and Dean of Graduate Studies at Husson College in Maine. He served in the Missouri National Guard where he entered as a Private and finished as a Captain.
He holds a B.S. from St. Louis University (Marketing), an MBA from Bowling Green University (Finance and International Business) and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He has taken additional course work in Psychology at the University of Maine. He is active in the Strategic Management Society and the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
His primary interest is how to improve decision making in organizations. Directly related to improving decision making is his interest in applying complexity science (chaos theory) to strategic decision making. After nearly ten years of working with complexity science he has converged on the creative utilization of self-organized groups as the key to building successful adaptive organizations. He is also exploring ways that complexity science can help forecast the stock market.
His work also includes applying psychological techniques to the fields of marketing and decision making. His favorite theories are those of Richard Dawkins, particularly his work on the concept of memes, and the personality theories of the late Clare Graves.
Some of O’Gorman’s articles and presentations include:
* Complexity Science: The New Foundation for Strategic Thought
* Complexity Science: The Key to Revitalizing Large Corporations
* Competing on Decisionmaking Processes: How Japan Could Use Complexity Science to Improve Their Decisionmaking Processes
* End User Computing: A Thirty-year Perspective
* Chaos Theory: Implications for Competitive Intelligence Professionals
* Dawkins’ Concept of Memes: Implications for MIS Professionals
* Using Graves’ Theories to Understand Audience Characteristics
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