This book offers an overview of operational research (OR), discipline whose objective is to help the decision through the implementation of specific technical issues of mathematics. Born during the Second World War, OR has experienced great developments and resolves now lots of civil and military problems.
OR is specifically designed to address complex problems for which common sense is not enough to find a solution. As such it is especially used to high decision levels and helps leaders to best use their organization in order to produce more or at lower cost.
After a brief history that demonstrates the importance of OR in the battle of the Atlantic, this book offers a definition of OR and real examples of implementation for the benefit of the army.
The reader wishing to benefit from OR, or simply curious, can move closer to the CDEF, Office of operational research study, whose mission, since more than fifty years, is precisely to provide rational support to headquarters. |