Perspectives on MS Applications---All Around the Model

Harvey N. Shycon
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Harvey N. Shycon: Shycon Associates Inc., Management Consultants, One Gateway Center, Newton, Massachusetts 02158

Interfaces, 1978, vol. 9, issue 1, 51-54

Abstract: 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.

Date: 1978
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