[yorak]

There is this trick among us operations researchers I'd like to share: even if one is able to perfectly model the peculiarities of a given application and get the optimal solution, it should not be the only output. Instead, one should put forward several good alternatives which the stakeholders can then discuss and become proponents for.

Nobody likes the scruffy operations researcher who awkwardly tells decision makers what to do in the form of an optimal solution, because this takes the power away from them. However, if one presents several good, preferably nearly optimal but different to each other, solutions between which the decision can be made freely, you have a better chance to make a change to better.