| Article ID: | iaor1990186 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 3 |
| End Page Number: | 6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1990 |
| Journal: | OR Insight |
| Authors: | Keddie William, Buttrick Stephen |
| Keywords: | practice |
Efforts to build an Operational Research OR presence in an organization can sometimes result in a strong demand for the specialist skills that Operational Research OR analysts are seen to possess. Thus, analysts may be recognized more for their ‘backroom’ technical skills in computing and statistics than for their modelling and problem-solving abilities. This was the problem facing Operational Research OR in Cheshire County Council three years ago. However, an appraisal of the direction of Operational Research OR and the dissolution of functional groupings with the Council’s management counsultancy led to an increasingly important role for Operational Research OR.