BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The concept of operations research arose during World War II by military planners. After the war, the techniques used in their operations research were applied to addressing problems in business, the government and society.

Detailed explanation-2: -During World War II, the Allies invented a new scientific field – Operational Research (OR) – to help complex military organizations cope with rapid technological change [1]. The practice emerged in the UK where both engineers and officers felt uncertain how to use nascent radar technology to maximum effect.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term “operational research” was originally used in Britain during World War II to connote scientific research done to integrate new radar technologies into Royal Air Force tactics.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first appearance of operations research as an academic discipline came in 1948 when a course in nonmilitary techniques was introduced at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge.

Detailed explanation-5: -The name operations research evolved in the year 1940. During World War 2, a team of scientist (Blackett’s Circus) in UK applied scientific techniques to research military operations to win the war and the techniques thus developed was named as operation research.