

Management science techniques are used on a wide variety of problems from a vast array of applications. The scope of management science techniques is broad. In addition, management scientists are constantly developing new algorithms and improving existing algorithms these efforts also enable management scientists to solve larger and more complex problems. Practitioners and researchers are able to use ever-increasing computing power in conjunction with management science methods to solve larger and more complex problems. West Churchman, Russell Ackoff, and Leonard Arnoff made management science even more accessible by publishing the first operations research textbook in the 1950s.Ĭomputer technology continues to play an integral role in management science. The development of the simplex method by George Dantzig in the 1940s made application of linear programming practical. Based on quantitative methods developed during World War II, several new applications emerged. Nonmilitary management science applications developed rapidly after World War II. Operations research teams of engineers, mathematicians, and statisticians were developed to use the scientific method to find solutions for many of these problems. Some even consider the World War II period as the beginning of management science, as this global conflict posed many military, strategic, logistic, and tactical problems.

In addition, several management science techniques were further developed during World War II. HISTORYįrederick Winslow Taylor is credited with the initial development of scientific management techniques in the early twentieth century. The term “operations research ” may be used interchangeably with management science.

Management science generally refers to mathematical or quantitative methods for business decision making. HISTORY BREADTH OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE TECHNIQUES MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING LINEAR PROGRAMMING SIMPLEX METHOD DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING GOAL PROGRAMMING INTEGER PROGRAMMING NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING MARKOV PROCESS MODELS QUEUING THEORY/WAITING-LINE THEORY TRANSPORTATION METHOD SIMULATION BIBLIOGRAPHY
