scholarly journals The role of statistics in operations research: Some personal reflections

ORiON ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
LP Fatti
Keyword(s):  
Operations Research ◽  
Personal Reflections

scholarly journals Operating without operations: how is technology changing the role of the firm?

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 809-833 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Breidbach ◽  
Sunmee Choi ◽  
Benjamin Ellway ◽  
Byron W. Keating ◽  
Katerina Kormusheva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Operations Research ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Service Operations ◽  
Science Literature ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Past ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The Future ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the history and future of service operations, with the goal to identify key theoretical and technological advances, as well as fundamental themes that can help to imagine the future of service operations in 2050. Design/methodology/approach A review of the service operations literature was undertaken to inform a discussion regarding the role that technology will play in the future of service operations. Findings The future of service operations is framed in terms of three key themes – complexity, orchestration, and elasticity. The paper makes three contributions to the service science literature by: reviewing key themes underpinning extant service operations research to frame future trajectories of service operations research; elaborating a vision of service operations in 2050 based on history and technology; and outlining a research agenda for future service operations. Practical implications The case of service automation is used to provide an illustration of how the three themes converge to define future service operations, and in particular, to show how technology is recasting the role of the firm. Originality/value Service operations in the next 30 years will be very different from what it was in the past 30 years. This paper differs from other review papers by identifying three key themes that will characterize and instill new insights into the future of service operations research.

Is surgery more about doing than thinking?

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (10) ◽  
pp. 605-608
Author(s):  
Soumya Mukherjee ◽  
James Meacock ◽  
Paul Chumas
Keyword(s):  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Adaptive Expertise ◽  
Surgical Decision ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Trained Staff ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Surgical Decision Making ◽  
And Training

Detailed thought, knowledge, complex analysis, reasoned judgment and professionalism all fundamentally underpin a surgeon's work and training, yet there is a popularly held view that accomplished surgeons are primarily concerned with performing procedures. A review of pedagogical, social and medical literature, together with personal reflections from the authors, shows that a surgeon's work is multi-faceted. This article discusses the technical skills of operating as a reflection of the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of a surgeon's cognition, the increasingly multidisciplinary strategic approach of surgeons today, the importance of surgical decision making, the influence of robotics, the role of non-medically trained staff, surgeons' role in postoperative care, adaptive expertise and the formation of professional identity. In so doing, a much wider view of a surgeon than simply ‘doing’ or ‘thinking’ is presented with implications for surgical training.

Bibliographic Analysis of Operations Research Citation in the Environmental Domain

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-79
Author(s):  
Peter Keenan
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Operations Research ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Research Management ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Bibliographic Analysis ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Modelling Techniques ◽  
The Web

This article uses bibliographic analysis techniques to examine the papers in the Web of Science database that have citation links to key operations research/management science (OR/MS) journals. The research identified the journals and papers in the environmental domains which cite these OR/MS journals and identify the key journals, papers, and themes. This research shows that environmental disciplines are becoming more important relative to the business and engineering domains that predominated in the previous years. However, much of the citation of OR/MS journals is for techniques like data envelopment analysis (DEA) which are used to conduct research rather than directly model environmental problems. Of the modelling techniques used to address problems in the environmental domains, MCDM methods are the most often cited, reflecting the importance of MCDM with the decision support systems (DSS) field. There are also significant numbers of applications relating to logistics and energy which cite OR/MS papers. Further research is needed to clarify the role of OR/MS techniques in the environmental sector, a domain outside the traditional areas of OR/MS application.

The Necessity of Implementation of Operations Research for Managers for Decision-Making and Productivity Increase in Production

2012 ◽  
Vol 488-489 ◽  
pp. 1651-1656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Khorasani Amoli ◽  
Seyyed Milad Talebzadeh Hosseini ◽  
Morteza Salehi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Linear Programming ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Operations Research ◽  
Correct Decision ◽  
Productivity Increase

In today world, decision-making has been converted into a vital issue for managers such that in some conditions, managers are encountered with some cases which correct decision- making guarantees the survival of company. Operations research is among the sciences which in direction for decision-making, helps the managers quantitatively and using of mathematical models which are called linear programming. In this paper, it is addressed to the significance and the role of operations Research in decision-making of managers and a definition about operations research is presented and two mathematical models are presented to help the decision-making of managers to provide customers orders with the least wastes and determination of human force and over-working.

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