The Operations, Information, and Decisions major is designed to improve the quality and productivity of enterprises by educating highly capable professionals, and discovering, developing, and validating new principles, theory, and methods.
Members of the department share common interests in process management, decision-making, and information. Our common approach to education and research is to blend rigor and relevance. We believe in science-based management and our work is built around models. We seek to reconcile theory and data, and to influence practice. We are a group of individuals with diverse interests and training; indeed, our diversity is central to the intellectual vitality of our community. Nevertheless, several themes characterize the questions of primary concern to most members of the department.
- How can the speed and quality of decision-making by individuals, groups, and organizations be improved?
- How can useful inferences be made from large datasets?
- How can supply chains be managed to provide the right products at the right time and place for least cost
- How can organizations create high-quality and efficient service delivery operations?
- How can the process of developing goods and services be transformed to deliver better products more efficiently?
- How do changes in the quality, speed, and frequency of information exchange impact an enterprise's functions, productivity, and organization?