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Newsletter Article Ideas

To help you promote O.R. in your organization's internal publications, here are some article ideas based on INFORMS materials, articles published by Interfaces and OR/MS Today, and those of The O.R. Society of the United Kingdom (see http://www.theorsociety.com).

• The way O.R. professionals translate a business problem into a mathematical model and proceed to make recommendations. (Use one or more examples from this site's Success Stories.)
• The kinds of problems that O.R. can solve for departments in the organization, and the preparatory material internal clients should assemble when contacting the organization's O.R. group.
• How O.R. can contribute to strategic planning at an organization.
• How O.R. can help with logistics and Supply Chain Management at an organization.
• How O.R. brings added value to IT at an organization.
• O.R. approaches to making the best use of limited resources at your organization.
• Improve scheduling of staff and machinery at your organization and organizations like yours.
• Improve the effectiveness of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) products through O.R.
• The type of data an organization should collect in order to allow O.R. professionals to provide better forecasts, recommendations, and analysis.
• Ways O.R. can help make pricing decisions.
• Ways that O.R. can reduce waiting times, and interesting applications in multiple industries (such as amusement park lines).
• How O.R. is used in manufacturing to resolve bottlenecks, shorten cycles, and make most efficient use of machinery.
• O.R. and data warehousing, knowledge management, and revenue management.
• For government: Ways O.R. has been used in the past at one's agency or department.
• For government: Ways O.R. is used at other governmental agencies at the federal, state, and local levels.