Description

The Operational Research / Management Science¬†profession is growing in strength worldwide.

Management Science in Practice contains four similarly sized parts. Part 1 defines the field of Management Science,¬†¬†lays the foundations¬†and gives an overview of the history. Part 2¬†describes the analysis toolbox used by the MS professional and contains topics such as Multi-Methodology, problem structuring techniques and analysis techniques. Part 3¬†looks at the key practical skills that OR graduates lack. Part 4¬†gives a brief overview of the current state of the OR profession. It outlines the current knowledge about the reflective practitioner to give guidance to the OR practitioner. It¬†also looks at the ethics in an OR context and the future for the profession.

Terry Williams is well known in the OR field and is currently a joint Editor of the Journal of the Operational Research Society.¬† He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), fellow of the OR Society, a chartered Mathematician and a certified Project Management Professional.