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The management of OR groups: results of a survey

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  • R Fildes

    (Lancaster University)

  • J C Ranyard

    (Lancaster University)

  • W R Crymble

    (Lancaster University)

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a survey of OR group managers to examine the success and survival of OR groups in UK industry, commerce and the public sector, which was sponsored by the OR Society. The aims of the survey were threefold: to gain some understanding of the demographics of UK OR groups in the mid-1990s as compared to the evidence collected 10 years earlier by the Commission; secondly, to establish how OR groups work, the type of projects they carry out, the clients they work for and the organisations they work in; and finally, to gain an understanding of how OR groups are managed, including the factors that OR managers believed to be important in ensuring their group's continuing success. In a nutshell, this paper presents a snap shot of OR group management in the mid-1990s.

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  • R Fildes & J C Ranyard & W R Crymble, 1999. "The management of OR groups: results of a survey," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 50(6), pages 563-580, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:jorsoc:v:50:y:1999:i:6:d:10.1057_palgrave.jors.2600756
    DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600756
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    1. ManMohan S. Sodhi & Christopher S. Tang, 2008. "The OR/MS Ecosystem: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats," Operations Research, INFORMS, vol. 56(2), pages 267-277, April.
    2. K Katsaliaki & N Mustafee & Y K Dwivedi & T Williams & J M Wilson, 2010. "A profile of OR research and practice published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 61(1), pages 82-94, January.
    3. F O'Brien, 2011. "Supporting the strategy process: a survey of UK OR/MS practitioners," Journal of the Operational Research Society, Palgrave Macmillan;The OR Society, vol. 62(5), pages 900-920, May.
    4. Mingers, John & Rosenhead, Jonathan, 2004. "Problem structuring methods in action," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 152(3), pages 530-554, February.
    5. Ranyard, J.C. & Fildes, R. & Hu, Tun-I, 2015. "Reassessing the scope of OR practice: The Influences of Problem Structuring Methods and the Analytics Movement," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 245(1), pages 1-13.
    6. Robert Fildes & John Ranyard, 2000. "Internal OR Consulting: Effective Practice in a Changing Environment," Interfaces, INFORMS, vol. 30(5), pages 34-50, October.

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