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The Changing Face of OR Practice Present Indicators and Possible in the UK: Futures
Author(s) -
Benett Peter
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
international transactions in operational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.032
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1475-3995
pISSN - 0969-6016
DOI - 10.1111/1475-3995.d01-21
Subject(s) - futures contract , sort , variety (cybernetics) , face (sociological concept) , term (time) , front (military) , work (physics) , political science , sociology , public relations , computer science , business , engineering , geography , social science , meteorology , finance , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , information retrieval
This paper starts by considering some indicators of how OR in the UK has changed in the short term, over the past five years. During this time, Strathclyde University's postgraduate course in OR has included a brief placement for students half‐way through the course, in which they spend time with practising OR groups. Students report back on how the group is organised, who its clients are, what sort of work it is doing, methods in common use, and so on. Data have now been gathered from a wide variety of groups throughout Britain. Having discussed the changes reflected in these ‘reports from the front’, we go on to consider whether they can be seen as harbingers of longer‐term shifts in the nature of OR practice, with particular reference to the possible impacts of new Information Technologies on organisations.