The Fifth Column---An Essay on Misused Words: Sophisticated & Elegant and On Going Thataway with MIS

Gene Woolsey
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Gene Woolsey: Colorado School of Mines

Interfaces, 1978, vol. 8, issue 4, 12-15

Abstract: An essay that addresses the academic requests for a model to be sophisticated and elegant, even in reality that is often not the case. An initiative for merging OR/MS with management information systems was being declined as inappropriate for several reasons because the author sees OR/MS as the application of the scientific method to management, whereas MIS is a computer-aided tool for problem solving.

Date: 1978
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