INFORMS leadership in 2010 has taken concrete steps to understand and address the burgeoning analytics marketplace. The Board of Directors at its winter 2010 meeting commissioned a comprehensive strategic report on the analytics market to be delivered by an independent consulting company. The Board received this report at its summer 2010 meeting. The report recommended that INFORMS enter this market. The Board fully vetted and discussed the report, accepted the findings and unanimously agreed to begin taking steps to serve this market. See below for more on the findings of the study and next steps. But first, the background.

Save $30 on INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and O.R. Thank you for being part of the first year for the Analytics Section of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). Some of the Analytics Section 2011 accomplishments in our first year include...

The purpose of the Innovation in Analytics Award is to recognize creative and unique developments, applications or combinations of analytical techniques. The prize promotes the awareness of the value of analytics techniques in unusual applications, or in creative combination to provide unique insights and/or business value. The prize is not meant to recognize strictly theoretical advances, though theoretical advances might be an enabler to innovative applications. Similarly, the prize is not focused on implementation value created, but such value creation might add credibility to the innovation. 

INFORMS Job Placement Service (JPS) is the largest source of operations research and analytics industry jobs and résumés. It's where job seekers go to land the right job in academia or industry.

Deadline to apply: February 19, 2012

INFORMS is happy to offer a scholarship program for the INFORMS Conference of Business Analytics and Operations Research. This is a competitive program, supported by SAS® and sponsored by the Analytics Section of INFORMS, will recognize one outstanding student who would like to learn more about the practice of analytics at this conference in Huntington Beach, California, April 15-17, 2012 by covering the costs of attending the event and additional networking opportunities.

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