| Article ID: | iaor19992725 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 49 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 392 |
| End Page Number: | 395 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1998 |
| Journal: | Journal of the Operational Research Society |
| Authors: | Machol R.E. |
| Keywords: | practice, transportation: air, military & defence |
This paper examines the success and failure of OR groups, with emphasis on a highly successful US military OR group in the 1940s and a US civilian group which in the past dozen years has proven to be perhaps the most successful OR group in history. They have in common that their success was largely due to emphasis on the nitty-gritty of the problem, and that they saw their recommendations through to implementation.