Open AccessThe OR/MS Ecosystem: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
Author(s) -
ManMohan S. Sodhi,
Christopher S. Tang
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
operations research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.797
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1526-5463
pISSN - 0030-364X
DOI - 10.1287/opre.1080.0519
Subject(s) - license , disengagement theory , strengths and weaknesses , public relations , work (physics) , best practice , attribution , commons , sociology , knowledge management , computer science , business , political science , data science , psychology , engineering , social psychology , law , operating system , gerontology , medicine , mechanical engineering
This paper is dedicated to Arthur Geoffrion, who serves as role model of a great researcher, educator, and practitioner. We believe that research, teaching, and practice are becoming increasingly disengaged from one another in the OR/MS ecosystem. This ecosystem comprises researchers, educators, and practitioners in its core along with end users, universities, and funding agencies. Continuing disengagement will result in OR/MS occupying only niche areas and disappearing as a distinct field even though its tools would live on. To understand the reasons for this disengagement better and to engender discussion among academics and practitioners on how to counter it, we present the ecosystem's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Incorporated in this paper are insights from a cluster of sessions at the 2006 INFORMS meeting in Pittsburgh (“Where Do We Want to Go in OR/MS?”) and from the literature.
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