I think what RP means by that term is “a researcher focused on figuring out & improving various operations-related things”, which is closer to industrial/organizational psychology + business administration + some other stuff than to the field of “operations research” (“a discipline that deals with the development and application of advanced analytical methods to improve decision-making [...] considered to be a subfield of mathematical sciences” (Wikipedia)).
So I think this is just an unfortunate overlap of terminology, rather than us actually doing something fairly similar to what this post is about.
(I guess I blame whoever named the field of operations research, since the name really doesn’t feel intuitive, but that ship has probably long since sailed.)
(Unnecessary disclaimer: I work at RP and Peter is my manager, but that’s not relevant to me reading this post or leaving this comment)
I think what RP means by that term is “a researcher focused on figuring out & improving various operations-related things”, which is closer to industrial/organizational psychology + business administration + some other stuff than to the field of “operations research” (“a discipline that deals with the development and application of advanced analytical methods to improve decision-making [...] considered to be a subfield of mathematical sciences” (Wikipedia)).
So I think this is just an unfortunate overlap of terminology, rather than us actually doing something fairly similar to what this post is about.
(I guess I blame whoever named the field of operations research, since the name really doesn’t feel intuitive, but that ship has probably long since sailed.)
(Unnecessary disclaimer: I work at RP and Peter is my manager, but that’s not relevant to me reading this post or leaving this comment)
Thanks for the clarification!