Re: OR Society/OR Grps/OR Bodies

INFORMS does not offer accreditation nor formal training (though the 
tutorials at the conferences are certainly very informative!).  The best 
conference for staying up to date (in my somewhat biased opinion) is the 
INFORMS Practice Conference, held every spring.  In the UK, the ORS does 
both training and certification.  Certification in particular comes up 
periodically in INFORMS discussions.

The name "OR" seems to be used less, being replaced by things like 
analytics, optimization, or quantitative xxx (for lots of choices of 
xxx).  So (again IMSBO), while the use of the skills of OR is at an all 
time high, the name OR is less common (Tom Cook, the current President 
of INFORMS has developed a pretty impressive plan to try to offset this).

So, I think the future of OR is very bright:  we as a field are just 
getting too good at solving problems of practical interest to be ignored.

Mike
(INFORMS Past President (for 30 more days))

Dave wrote:

> Are there similar groups in the USA?
>
> Does INFORMS offer courses, and accredition of/for OR practicioners?
>
> Is there some useful info on this?
>
> I was curious to know how the future of OR looks. Recently I came to
> know from a friend of mine, a recent OR graduate from a good US
> school, saying that there are not many takers of OR in the industry,
> and ultimately he had to settle with a job in Mkt Res./Data
> Analyst/Statistics. Though Stat also comes in OR, however truly
> speaking.....
>
> Does future of OR look good or bad?
>
> Any takes on the matter....
>
> Dave.
>
>
> "Bernard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> > "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > > Hello all
> > >
> > > I am a working profesional, and was eager to know if there are
> > > professional OR grps/bodies which I can join/attend their
> > > workshops/seminars.
> > >
> > > Are there ways with which professionals can keep themselves updated
> > > with the latest in OR area? Are there univ which offer accredited
> > > online courses/etc.?
> > >
> > > I hope there are certain leads from the readers.
> > >
> > > Thanks, and Regds
> > > Dave.
> >
> > The UK OR Society can be found here http://theorsociety.com/ other such
> > organisations can be found here http://www.orsoc.org.uk/about/other.htm
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Bernard