Experts in analytics and operations research have long argued that you cannot properly understand a phenomenon unless you can apply metrics that explain it in numbers. U.S. Army Major Rob Dees strongly believes that this concept also applies to the Department of Defense obtaining and retaining the best fighting men and women. A researcher for the Mayo Clinic and speaker at a session during this month's INFORMS Conference on Analytics, Major Dees speaks at length in this podcast recorded at the INFORMS Huntington Beach conference.
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With host Barry List, INFORMS Director of Communications.
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