Exploring business problems and opportunities so that new business solutions can be identified
- What in house modelling capability do we need? – Review of OR services
- Be prepared! – Cost of readiness
- Experiment – Assess the scale of use of CBRN weapons
- Work together – Framework development for maritime training interoperability
Gaining insights from data and discovering opportunities from those insights
- Supermarket demand forecasting from weather data
- Which hospitals are the best? – League tables for health service providers
- Who’s not paying the right amount of tax? – Risk management systems
- How much are we wasting? – Analysing the first national waste survey
- Understanding trends and patterns – Statistical analysis of examination results
- Forecasting system – Visa and immigration applications
Understand the effects of changes to their business and the business environment, and thus make robust plans in the face of uncertainty
- How much capital do we need? – Modelling ECGD’s financial performance
- What pay structure is best? – Reward management and pay modelling
- Developing a business case – Improved weather forecasting
Improving business performance and building the capability to keep improving themselves
- Identifying costs and value in business processes
- Implementing a performance management system at a charity
- Improving staff rostering
- Matching volunteers to charities
Making the best decisions in complex circumstances, where there is a need to justify the decision, defend it against challenges, and to ensure the quality of the decision making process
- “It’s obvious …” – What happens if experts and decision makers disagree?
- Forestalling a legal challenge – Rigour and auditablity in tender evaluation
- Managing risk and ensuring sustainability
- Planning – Capturing qualitative factors