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Perspectives on MS Applications---All Around the Model

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  • Harvey N. Shycon

    (Shycon Associates Inc., Management Consultants, One Gateway Center, Newton, Massachusetts 02158)

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Over the past several years I have perceived a trend in Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) groups within industrial and commercial business organizations. First came the era of the strong central organization, frequently located at the corporate level and reporting to a top corporate officer. Then gradually smaller applications groups formed within operating divisions. Finally there occurred a shrinking and in some cases disappearing of the central group as specifically designated for application of OR/MS techniques.Two recent experiences point up what I perceive is a trend among in-house management science groups, regardless of what they are called. Each of these illustrates a somewhat different kind of corporate situation which gave rise to essentially the same conclusion: it was better to purchase outside skills and techniques than to attempt them in-house.

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  • Harvey N. Shycon, 1978. "Perspectives on MS Applications---All Around the Model," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 9(1), pages 51-54, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:orinte:v:9:y:1978:i:1:p:51-54
    DOI: 10.1287/inte.9.1.51
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