The potential of “big data” has been receiving tremendous attention lately, and not just on HBR’s site. With interest in the topic growing exponentially, it has been the focus of countless articles and perhaps too many meetings and conferences. But to the extent that big data will have big impact, it might not be in
Anne Robinson is the Director of Supply Chain Strategy and Analytics for Verizon Wireless and the President-Elect of INFORMS, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Before joining Verizon, she worked for Cisco, most recently...
Operations research is a very analytics-intensive profession. Has that always been known in the industry? Not really. People looking for analytics resources don’t necessarily associate that with operations research. We, the society, decided to take a more...