Answer by Alan Erera
Based on my experiences with supply chain and logistics industries, there is much room for additional effective OR and analytics deployment. So, an opportunity still exists certainly to take over a bit...
View ArticleAnswer by Shiva Subramanian 1
Heh, as a fully hands-on OR practitioner for over a decade, my feeling is that OR has over-taken the world long ago :-) and gone off into the stratosphere. Some serious work is needed to get many of...
View ArticleAnswer by Bo Jensen
I agree with Shiva, there's a too big gap between theory/research and practitioners. I recently did some consulting for an OR newbie company, where I found myself doing the classic mistake. Basically...
View ArticleAnswer by DC Woods
As more of the decisions in our world come to be made by computers, whether through automated processes or through software tools, it is natural that OR will play a part. I see OR as a way of telling...
View ArticleAnswer by shiva 4
I'm stating the obvious perhaps, but a solver in itself is of not much use to most human beings. Yes, theory has its place, i like it too, but an equal part of OR programs has to be about training...
View ArticleAnswer by Greg Glockner
I wish it might but I'm not holding my breath waiting!I think the interesting trend over the last 15 years has been a shift in industry OR jobs. It used to be that large companies had internal OR...
View ArticleAnswer by Bo Jensen
Very impressive numbers :http://www.analyticbridge.com/profiles/blogs/as-ibm-accelerates-analytics
View ArticleAnswer by Bo Jensen
As previously mentioned I believe OR has very good potential in even simple cases. We tend to see only the hard and complicated problems we can crack. Yesterday I was talking to a owner of a small...
View ArticleAnswer by Siddhartha Maheshwary
On another note, most of the OR in the last decade or so has concentrated on large-scale operations - airlines, vehicle routing, inventory for large corporations. Do you guys think OR has any chance in...
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