A Consulting Firm Uses Constraint Programming to Plan Personnel-Review Meetings

Robert M. Saltzman () and Jennifer L. Meyer ()
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Robert M. Saltzman: Decision Sciences Department, San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, San Francisco, California 94132
Jennifer L. Meyer: Strategic Decisions Group, 2440 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025

Interfaces, 2004, vol. 34, issue 2, 106-112

Abstract: A medium-sized consulting firm uses constraint programming to plan its annual meetings of groups of partners to conduct personnel reviews of its consultant-employees. Key constraints include discussing every knowledgeable partner-consultant relationship in at least one meeting; keeping meetings manageable by limiting the number of partners attending and the number of consultants discussed; restricting the number of meetings each partner attends; and requiring the partners who attend each meeting to represent multiple practice areas. Our objective is to minimize the number of situations in which a consultant who is discussed at a meeting has only one knowledgeable partner attending the meeting. Running the model has saved partners from attending meetings unnecessarily and reduced the time required to develop a meeting plan from a few days to a few hours. It has been part of the review-planning process for the past two and a half years.

Keywords: organizational studies: personnel; programming: integer; applications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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