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ANALYZE THIS! Problem-solving: Keep it real with gemba

Some years ago, I got a call from “Frank,” a finance director at a start-up company with a cloud-based software solution. Its platform was hosted by one of the large public cloud providers, and that was why he was calling. “The bills for hosting have been outrageous,” said Frank, who had called me based on a strong referral from a former consulting colleague.

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Disarming ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’

    Disarming ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’

Cathy O’Neil, an industry insider and experienced expert, thoroughly covers the sociological downside of data science in her New York Times bestseller and first-of-its kind book, “Weapons of Math Destruction.” In the world of big data, there’s a lot of music to be faced. With all its upside, data science’s deployment risks being prejudicial, predatory, exploitative, buggy, blindly trusted and secretive. And it has the potential to magnify the consumer’s personal economic struggle rather than remedy it.

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Analyze This!: Victimized by WMD

My family and I are spending the second half of my sabbatical in Madrid. We arrived in Spain a couple of weeks ago, and the day we arrived I tried to log in to my bank’s online site to pay my credit card bill.

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FCC wins 2018 INFORMS Edelman Award

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) won the 2018 Franz Edelman Award for its use of operations research (O.R.) as part of a revolutionary approach to address the rapidly growing need for additional wireless spectrum in the United States and Canada. The prestigious award, which recognizes outstanding achievement in advanced analytics, O.R. and management science, was presented by INFORMS at the Edelman Gala held April 16 in Baltimore in conjunction with the 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research. Read more →

BNSF Railway receives 2018 INFORMS Prize

BNSF Railway was awarded the 2018 INFORMS Prize for its pioneering and enduring integration of operations research (O.R.) and analytics programs throughout the organization. The prize was presented at the Edelman Gala held April 16 in Baltimore in conjunction with the 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research. Read more →

Ethics article earns Mission Award from Notre Dame

An article co-authored by Scott Nestler and David Hunt, both longtime and active members of INFORMS, was named a winner of the Mission Award from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. The article, “Using INFORMS ethics guidelines in the classroom,” appeared in the February 2017 issue of OR/MS Today (the INFORMS membership magazine). The Mission Award recognizes one or more Notre Dame faculty members for a specific research work that contributes to the common good. Read more →

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