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Data as a Strategic Asset

The U.S. Army is transforming into a data-centric organization by building enterprise data governance, creating federated leadership roles, and using frameworks such as ADMAS and DDOF to turn siloed data into trusted, decision-ready products.

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  • From Data to Water

    Reliable water access is not just a development issue. It is also a resilience issue that should be a fundamental human right. Being able to access dependable water resources lies at the heart of disaster preparedness, health, agriculture, and community stability. Many countries still lack this essential resilience against disasters big and small.

  • Data as a Strategic Asset

    The U.S. Army is transforming into a data-centric organization by building enterprise data governance, creating federated leadership roles, and using frameworks such as ADMAS and DDOF to turn siloed data into trusted, decision-ready products.

  • What Smarter Scheduling Can Deliver

    A data-driven scheduling model shows how the 2026 FIFA World Cup group stage could reduce team travel by about 50% and cut time-zone crossings by 83% while preserving tournament structure.

  • The Insight Loop: A Leadership Framework for Building AI & Analytics Maturity

    Only 10% of executives report achieving significant financial benefit from their AI and analytics initiatives, according to a study in MIT Sloan Management Review. Another MIT report focused on GenAI reported that, as of 2025, up to 95% of GenAI pilot projects have failed to scale to enterprise-level impact. The problem isn’t the quality of AI tools themselves – it’s the lack of organizational learning.

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What Grad School Doesn't Teach You: Surviving Your First Months in Industry

In graduate school, problems are typically well-defined. In a corporate environment, she had to learn to navigate ambiguity, define problems herself, and understand the broader business context.

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    OR/MS has always been about making better decisions. Data independence extends that mission. It asks us to look beyond algorithms and models and examine the foundation on which they are built. It challenges us to treat data not just as a resource, but as a governed asset with defined ownership and value.  

  • Shooting your age in golf

    There are many memorable moments in a golfer’s life. Breaking 90, 80 or 70 for the first time, striking a hole-in-one or scoring an eagle on a par-5 hole are some examples most golfers never forget.

  • ‘ORION’ delivers success for UPS

    UPS was faced with what amounted to the Mother of all Traveling Salesman Problems in its Small Package Operations: how to optimally deploy 55,000 drivers based across the United States, each of whom makes on average more than a hundred deliveries a day. To make the problem even more interesting, UPS added a largely safety-driven constraint: minimize the number of left-hand turns on each driver’s route.

  • The ChanceOmeter

    AI is lowering the barrier to building probabilistic tools, making it feasible for practitioners who are not software developers to construct and deploy stochastic models. For a discipline that has long faced the challenge of communicating uncertainty to non-technical audiences, that is a meaningful development.