In 2016 I conducted a survey at the INFORMS Analytics conference in Orlando on the organization of analytics groups, and on the potential impact of current trends in the analytics landscape. ORMS Today included the summary of the results and the editor Peter Horner, added the title, “O.R. and Data Science: a Complicated Relationship,” which encapsulates […]
The Jan de Wit Company, www.jandewit.com.br, is a wholesale producer of bulb flowers in Brazil. In 2000, when the company began to consider optimization to help its production planning, it had 18,745 square meters of greenhouses, 1,032 square meters of cold-storage rooms, a team of approximately 30 employees and US$80 million in annual sales. It […]
Princeton Consultants performs a Quality Assurance service that helps clients understand if best practices are used in the deployment of their predictive analytics or optimization models. Based on years of experience deploying advanced analytics in operational systems that run 24/7, our analysis often uncovers areas for improvement by suggesting new modeling and algorithmic approaches. Practitioner executives […]
“For an MBA student, it’s very important to understand how you will encounter a problem in the real world,” says Arnie Greenland, a professor at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “You have to excel at more than the technical side of optimization to succeed in business—you have to understand the […]
