Today we are celebrating OR Awareness Day. We asked our members to describe what Operational Research means to them. Here are some of their answers below.

#ORAwarenessDay #ORDay #ORMS #ThisIsOR

Excellently chaired by Ben Taylor

Why Gaming is important

No it's not just "advanced monopoly"

Thanks to @theorsociety.bsky.social for a great week at #ismor42 #GORS #ThisIsOR

Making an Impact - All Set with 3 Talks for the EURO Conference in Leeds, UK! In a few days, I head to the UK. I am very excited about the EURO conference at the University of Leeds https://euro2025leeds.uk/ , at which...

I'm looking forward to presenting 3 invited talks at the @euroonline.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds. This is the 50th anniversary of this society, so there'll be celebrations. Link to my #orblog on my talks annanagurney.blogspot.com/2025/06/maki.... #MakinganImpact #orms #ThisisOR

NetwORks and policies: OR to the rescue Operational Research (OR), as a discipline, and with its historical foundations grounded in addressing immense challenges associated with WWII, is uniquely positioned to address many of the greates...

Many thanks to @theorsociety.bsky.social for having my Blackett Lecture paper, NetwORks and Policies: OR to the Rescue, published free access through the end of 2025 in the flagship Journal of the Operational Research Society www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #orms #ThisisOR #networks #policies

Honored and delighted that my Blackett Lecture paper has now been accepted in the Journal of the Operational Research Society @theorsociety.bsky.social. Looking forward to its publication in this #orms journal. #ThisIsOR Thanks to all who came to my lecture on Dec. 5 at The Royal Society in London!

North Western OR Group The NWORG is your regional society – our aim is to provide a focus for operational researchers and to reach out to anyone interested in finding out about operational research here in the North West.

Bringing it home this week, 10th April 15:00 to 16:30 for the North Western OR Group: "The 'je ne sais quoi' of algorithms that foster human-centric analytics design".

Link to event through the network page. #analytics #OperationalResearch #ThisIsOR #ORMS

www.theorsociety.com/ORS/ORS/Comm...

Business Analytics Educators Forum

To all my fellow Operational Researcher, Business/Data Analytics types out there. Get in there quick for an invite. It's today at 5pm BST. #OperationalResearch #AnalyticsEducation #ThisIsOR
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Christina continuing to represent OR as she has tirelessly for years. Thank you 👏👏👏 in the UK we love science and need to show more love for #mathematics and #OR #ThisIsOR

The OR Society supports National Apprenticeship Week! As an End Point Assessment Organisation, we see the impact of OR Specialist apprentices improving decision-making. In 2025, we’ll expand to include Machine Learning & Data Engineer standards.

Contact us: epao@theorsociety.com
#NAW2025 #ThisIsOR

Operational Research transforms data into insights.

Learn how OR improves decision-making in industries like healthcare, logistics, and finance. Explore more with us:
https://www.theorsociety.com/

#OperationalResearch #DecisionMaking #ORMS #ThisIsOR

Me, presenting the title slide of my Travelling Swiftie Problem talk, featuring a photo of Taylor Swift performing live on tour.

Very proud to have been invited as a plenary speaker at The OR Society's Systems Conference last week! It was lovely to meet so many new faces and have interesting discussions about systems thinking and OR. Thanks to all who gave kind words after my talk! 💜

#ThisIsOR #ORMS

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Hello world! For my first post, I'm excited to share that I've been invited to speak at the OR Society's one-day Systems Conference next week! Looking forward to sharing the Travelling Swiftie Problem with a live audience. Give it a read below 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#ThisIsOR #ORMS