The INFORMS Roundtable comprises organizations, not people, each represented by the ranking manager or executive in charge of all OR/MS activity. The Roundtable has existed within INFORMS for over 20 years and currently numbers about 50 organizations. Its purpose is to promote OR/MS excellence in practice, to provide practitioner-inspired leadership to the profession, and to promote the personal professional growth of Roundtable representatives. It provides a way for new OR/MS groups to leverage the hard-won lessons of established groups, and for mature groups to keep their edge through exposure to new ideas and peer networking. In this special panel session, Roundtable members will discuss the range of roles and operating environments in which their OR/MS activities bring value to their organizations. Topics to be discussed include group size, reporting position in their parent organization, source of funding for their work, and perception by their organization's senior management of the benefits that OR provides to the business.

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