| Article ID: | iaor19911041 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 38 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Start Page Number: | 189 |
| End Page Number: | 201 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1990 |
| Journal: | Operations Research |
| Authors: | Waks Norman |
| Keywords: | government |
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.