OR/MS Support to Senior Managers in the Public Sector: Two Cases

Norman Waks
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Norman Waks: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts

Operations Research, 1990, vol. 38, issue 2, 189-192

Abstract: Through two case examples this paper illustrates that senior public managers at even the highest levels can be, and regularly are, helped by OR/MS people and/or their tools, approaches, and ways of thinking. Thus, it questions the continuing belief evidently held by some in the OR/MS community that it does not, or cannot, happen for a variety of reasons, which they then proceed to spell out.

Keywords: government: support to senior public managers; military: management of large programs; technology: decision making under uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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