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I've been rather nerdy on Operations Research. It seems that today it's a mostly unknown field limited to few companies. Maybe it turned out to be too difficult for ordinary managers, who just wanted dashboards, maybe people weren't really ready for it, maybe it got crushed by the agile industrial context ... but if you look at writings from the 70s and 80s it seems that there is an agreement that for an OR department to be truly successful it would require a mandate to truly transform the business and disrupt common power structures - which is why instead they often get relegated to just doing dashboards. Over time they became data analysts and then the data scientists of today.

I personally think that there is a LOT of very useful stuff in the field.