The OR Society is celebrating 75 years and as part of the celebrations of this anniversary, we will be looking back at 75 years of OR Practice. Starting with how OR expanded from its military origins in World War 2 to becoming a vital tool for the management of peacetime industry. The review will look at the growth of OR during the 1950s and 1960s, the emergence of systems approaches in OR practice in the 1970s and will examine how OR has changed and developed through the ages of mainframe, the personal computer and on into the world of the internet, big data and AI.

The session included some short presentations on the history of OR practice both from the perspective of a former long-term secretary of the Heads of OR and Analytics Forum (HORAF) and President of the OR Society, a former Chief Analysts of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and the current Head of Profession for OR in the Ministry of Deference (MOD).

This video will allow you to understand more about how this history of evolution and development might hold lessons for the next years of OR Practice.

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