A collection of all INFORMS related press releases.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) recognized a longstanding open source software program with its 2014 INFORMS Impact Prize for the developers’ creation of software that has spurred the growth of new applications over its more than dozen years of existence.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, November 11, 2014–According to a new INFORMS® survey of 230 business, government and academic representatives released today, the concept of “analytics maturity” is important or very important to their businesses (65 percent). Yet, 82 percent of those same respondents admitted they do not have a plan, model, or any other mechanism in place for measuring the efficacy or maturity of their analytics best practices over time.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA , November 11, 2014– The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) – the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the fields of analytics, operations research (O.R.) and management science – today announced the official launch of a unique new Analytics Maturity Model that is designed to help organizations of all sizes scrutinize the way they use analytics across the business and determine how to improve their best practices over time. Whether an organization is in it’s initial stages of using analytics to improve business processes, or is at a more advanced level, the INFORMS Analytics Maturity Model approach helps assess strengths and weaknesses in three important areas of analytics: the organization itself, its analytics capabilities and its data and infrastructure.
CATONSVILLE, MD, October 15, 2014 – Coordinating product placement with advertising in the same television program can reduce audience loss over commercial breaks by 10%, according to a new study in the Articles in Advance section of Marketing Science, a journal of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
CATONSVILLE, MD, October 14, 2014 – The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) today announced that Yale School of Management Professor Edward H. Kaplan, whose pioneering work in public health and homeland security has won him numerous INFORMS awards, was elected INFORMS president in an election that concluded on September 30. Prof. Kaplan becomes INFORMS President Elect on January 1, 2015 and starts his term as President on January 1, 2016.
Ashley Smith
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INFORMS
Catonsville, MD
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Access Analytics MagazineBALTIMORE, MD, September 30, 2024 –
EDITOR’S NOTE: Decision Science Digest is a periodic communique highlighting recent peer-reviewed research published by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, across its 17 journals. This issue highlights four press releases based on the findings of new peer-reviewed articles.
BALTIMORE, MD, June 18, 2024 –
EDITOR’S NOTE: Decision Science Digest is a periodic communique highlighting recent peer-reviewed research published by INFORMS, the largest association for the decision and data sciences, across its 17 journals. This issue highlights four press releases based on the findings of new peer-reviewed articles.