It's the Process Not the Product (Most of the Time)

Allen F. Grum and Rick Hesse
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Allen F. Grum: Department of Engineering, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York 10996
Rick Hesse: Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University, 7659 Reynolda Station, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27109

Interfaces, 1983, vol. 13, issue 5, 89-93

Abstract: The process of problem formulation, analysis, and implementation may have more far-reaching effects than the specific solution or product for the particular case. Management science has been valued for the final number or answer rather than for its true strength, a method of gaining insight and understanding of the whole situation.

Keywords: professional:; OR/MS; implementation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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