Optimizing Through Analysis

摘要

Every company is trying to be more compet- itive with the same money and fewer people. The pressure is on. But what do you do when you run out of obvious things you can do with common sense? Turn to extras. This is high-tech stuff." Thus speaks Randy Robinson, a consultant with a Ph.D. in OR (operational research) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloane School. But when Robinson talks about using high tech to gain an advantage, he means something beyond IT's traditional definition of high tech.