Perspectives on MS Applications—All Around the Model

Knowing whom to involve and when, and properly preparing the way for Management Science evaluation, is surely as important as the evaluation itself. One of my major objectives in this series of articles has been to address the problem of achieving successful implementation of Management Science studies. In my view successful implementation, which chronologically occurs after the evaluation itself has been completed, is heavily dependent on the proper approach in the very beginning stages, almost at problem conceptualization. I would like to illustrate from two recent examples which I have observed.