Operations-Research Services

On March 15, 1956, the following letter was sent to some fifteen organizations believed to be offering industrial operations-research services and not a part of educational institutions.

‘Management's Corner’ in Operations ResearchThe Journal of the Operations Research Society of America is going to run a series of brief accounts of agencies providing operations-research services. These accounts are to be factual rather than propagandistic. They are intended to provide management with information rather than stimulation. I would like to obtain from you or someone in your group a write-up, not to exceed four double-spaced typewritten pages, in which the following questions are answered (in any order your desire). The text of queries follows. A presentation of the OR activity of 6 companies is presented.