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- The Future of Operations Research
- The Future of Operations ResearchGreat article!This is a great article. I agree that the future of OR is definitely going to be more dynamic and digital. We will see more collaborations between OR analysts and software engineers to develop software that provides real-time decision support and evolves with changing conditions.Please...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-02
- Operations Research: Critical Applications for Business
- Operations Research: Critical Applications for BusinessOR-A Decision making ScienceIt is great to see such a topic on OR, for any queries in business analysis, you can contact me at pbm@somaenterprise.com
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
- Key Terms and Players of Operations Research
- Key Terms and Players of Operations ResearchOperations ResearchYou might also want to include the largest privately owned software company in world in your list. SAS Institute in Cary North Caroline. If it has something to do with analytics, then SAS has been doing it for years.RE: Key Terms...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- The Future of Operations Research
- How one prominent academic, UC Berkeley's Lee W. Schruben, sees the evolution of operations research in the business world. BNET: What are the big unsolved problems for OR in practice today? Schruben: We have to realize that what we’re actually doing...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- How Operations Research Drives Success at P&G
- Operations research isn’t just geek science at P&G. It’s an integral part of the company’s marketing, sales and supply chain. ...
- Articles 2008-02-13
- Key Terms and Players of Operations Research
- More and more companies are turning to data analysts and mathematical engineers to solve key business problems. Here’s a guide to the key players and the basic lexicon of their craft — operations research. Key Players Oracle: Oracle is one...
- Articles 2008-02-13
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- Moving Toward a National Agenda of Transportation Operations and Mobility Research
- A National Research and Technology Partnership Forum has been established to develop a new framework for coordinating surface transportation research. As part of this Forum, five working groups were established to pursue development of a consensus national research agenda. This paper documents the work of one of those working groups,...
- White papers 2001-02-01
- Behavior in Operations Management: Assessing Recent Findings and Revisiting Old Assumptions
- This paper provides a perspective on why behavioral research is critical to the Operations Management (OM) field, what prior research exists, and what opportunities lay ahead. The use of human experiments in operations management is still fairly novel despite a small stream of publications going back more than twenty years....
- White papers 2006-01-09
- Operations Research: The Productivity Engine
- A key focus for management is determining steps that can achieve Productivity Gain - and doing it before the competition. A valuable tool in this quest is Operations Research (O.R.), a field devoted to the creation and management of productivity gain. Operations researchers identify ways to achieve high levels of...
- White papers 2004-08-23
- Snowplow Operations and Resource Management
- The purpose of this research is twofold: to develop a simulation model of snowplow operations, and to develop a conceptual design for a predictive maintenance system. The first portion of the research was concerned primarily with developing a simulation model of snowplow operations for selected routes in Virginia, MN. The...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Operations Research: Critical Applications for Business
- Operations research (OR), the science of applying advanced analytics to business decisions, is the secret tool that helps major corporations including UPS and Procter & Gamble solve complex business problems. But how can you use it in your business? The good news: You don’t have to be a mathematician to...
- Videos 2007-12-04
- S&T Implications for Net Centric Operations
- The evolving environment for Net Centric Operations (NCO) is changing the requirements and capabilities that are needed for successful military and civil operations. This in turn is demanding science and technology developments of new enabling technologies with associated NCO capabilities. The Office of Naval Research (ONR) has studied these needs...
- White papers 2004-06-14
- Supply Chain Performance Management Research Agenda
- Ventana Research states the key objective of Performance Management is to optimize business processes while aligning them with the organization's strategy. Operations play a strategic role in managing the performance of a company. Beyond executing the supply chain functions, they manage the key product, demand and supply strategies and measure...
- White papers 2004-06-15
- Research Prospects On Business-To-Business Revenue Management
- Revenue management and electronic distribution-systems have emerged as powerful decision and information technologies to support the management of demand for a company's products. Important applications include the management of commercial reservation processes in the airline, travel, and hospitality industries, and dynamic pricing of inventory in retail chains. Consequently, revenue management...
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Smart & Lean Operations: Primary Research and Analysis
- This report draws on a survey of the world's pharmaceutical industry. It articulates a growing consensus among the industry's executives that operations will have to play a far more prominent role in the future, and that the pharmaceutical supply chain must become both supply chain must become both smart &...
- White papers 2004-04-06
- Distinctive Features Of R&D Operations Outsourced Offshore
- Offshore outsourcing, which means the transfer of the responsibility for an operation to an offshore provider, has increased in popularity. Companies have started to realize the potential benefits that lie in this strategic operation mode, and hence both the quality and quantity of the R&D (Research & Development) operations that...
- White papers 2007-08-10
- Analysing The Electrical Power Network Construction Supply Chain
- This paper of electric power network construction supply chains was launched by reviewing the operations models of leading companies in Finland. All the members of the electric power network construction supply chain were interviewed. The interviewees included manufacturers, wholesalers, construction companies and power companies. Based on the review, some problem...
- White papers 2003-06-06
- Evaluating Research-in-Process: At the Cutting Edge of Solution Design and Supply Chain Management Theory
- Academics have recently emphasised the need for research in operations management to improve in novelty and its relevance to practice. However, explorative research in innovative practice is often time consuming and risky for academic researchers; as the quality of eventual research results is uncertain. This paper argues that the difficulty...
- White papers 2004-10-19
- Representation of Urban Operations in Military Models and Simulations
- The US Military's involvement in urban operations has escalated significantly over the past several years. Though modeling and simulation (M&S) has played a large role in the development and refinement of Army tactics, techniques and procedures, current model research for Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) is fragmented and inadequately...
- White papers 2001-11-14
- Effects Based Operations for Transnational Terrorist Organizations: Assessing Alternative Courses of Action to Mitigate Terrorist Threats
- The concept of effects based operations lends itself well to modeling and assessing approaches to destroying, degrading or disrupting terrorist acts. The George Mason University effects-based course of action planning and assessment research tool, called CAESAR II/EB, has been used to construct influence nets and courses of action to mitigate...
- White papers 2004-03-24
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