Author:Viljoen, NM; Van Zyl, HMDate:Oct 2009Over the last three decades, the discipline of Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) has experienced a pronounced crisis in identity, spurring heated debate in the discourse of the discipline. Central to this crisis is the gap between ...Read more
Author:Viljoen, NM; Van Zyl, RDate:2009This paper explores the potential of design thinking in the seemingly disparate discipline of Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS). OR/MS develops mathematical models for analysis based on quantitative logic as an answer to management ...Read more
Author:Ittmann, HW; Van Dyk, FE; Meyer, IA; Janse Van Rensburg, SJDate:2007Apart from work in the mining industry during the 1950s, the first real Operations Research (OR) group in South Africa was established at CSIR in the early 1960s. Those initially involved in this group played a significant role in establishing ...Read more
Author:Ittmann, HWDate:1996South Africa has made historical changes during the past six years. With the change of Government in May 1994, the majority party of the Government of National Unity, the ANC, announced its master plan for the new South Africa. That was the ...Read more
Author:Ittmann, HWDate:Dec 2009At the 25th anniversary of ORiON it is appropriate to look at the advances in OR during the last 25 years. This paper focuses on what has happened on the international front there is not a focus on OR developments in South Africa as such. By ...Read more