The Use of Multimethodology in Practice: Results of a Survey of Practitioners

Iain Michael Fraser Munro; J Mingers

doi:10.1057/palgrave/jors/2601331

The Use of Multimethodology in Practice: Results of a Survey of Practitioners

Iain Michael Fraser Munro, J Mingers

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Abstract

There is now a vast range of techniques and methodologies, both hard and soft, available to the OR/MS practitioner. After a period of concern about methodology choice, ie 'which method when', we are now moving towards a pluralistic approach of combining together several methods within an intervention-multimethodology. This paper reports on a survey of OR/MS practitioners to discover the extent of multimethodology usage and which particular combinations are most commonly utilised.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	369-378
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of the Operational Research Society
Volume	53
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave/jors/2601331
Publication status	Published - Apr 2002

Keywords

methodology
multimethodology
operational research
systems
practice
SYSTEMS STRATEGY-DEVELOPMENT
PUTTING SOFT
METHODOLOGY
MANAGEMENT
WORK

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