Presidents' Symposium: OR, A Post Mortem

Russell L. Ackoff
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Russell L. Ackoff: 1956–1957 ORSA President, INTERACT: The Institute for Interactive Management, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Operations Research, 1987, vol. 35, issue 3, 471-474

Abstract: This note traces the devolution of operations research from its original state as a market-oriented profession through the stage of output orientation to its current status as largely input-oriented, and points out that this descent has taken the profession away from the most important needs of the organizations it could serve.

Keywords: 601; 603 OR; a post mortem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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