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Becoming data-driven: The role of trust in successful analytics adoption

Organizations have more data, more dashboards, and more sophisticated analytics tools than ever before. And yet, many still struggle to make confident decisions quickly. Sometimes the problem isn’t the data itself. It’s what happens between the insight and the action: unclear ownership, competing versions of the truth, slow review cycles, and analytics that sit beside the business instead of helping shape it. In today’s episode of Resoundingly Human: The INFORMS Podcast, I’m joined by Ritish Chugh, Senior Analytics Engineer with Airbnb, to talk about what it takes to move from producing analytics to building an organization that actually knows how…

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The Opioid Epidemic: Using OR/MS to combat the leading public health crisis

The opioid epidemic is a decades long public health crisis that is only continuing to grow in severity and impact. It is currently the foremost public health crisis in the United States, with its roots tracing back to mid to late 1990s when the highly concentrated prescription pain killer Oxycontin was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in conjunction with the controversial pain as the fifth vital sign campaign, among other factors. As the U.S. government, healthcare system, and general public struggle to combat this epidemic, members of the OR/MS and analytics community are leveraging data and research…

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