The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. TutORials in OR Book Series INFORMS Analytics Collections. Strategy Science Transportation Science Magazines. We want to engage students interested in these fields, encourage further study of them, and help establish them as professionals. Operations Research Organization Science. We invite students of ALL majors to join us as we research and learn from professionals who use these principles on a daily basis. What is operations research/management science (ORMS) and what role should INFORMS play with respect to it The scientific method provides an appealing straw. Here at Illinois, our student chapter seeks to expand the study and use of OR/MS fields here in Champaign -Urbana. professionals, permitting them to communicate with each other and reach out to other professional societies, as well as the varied clientele of the profession’s research and practice. INFORMS serves as a focal point for analytics and O.R. The systems used in OR fields consist heavily of people and procedures. It is a type of problem-solving technique that finds solutions for decision making and efficiency. Operations Research and Management Science are described as “The Science of Better”. These are two fields that work very closely together, and in a lot of ways overlap. It is the largest professional organization dedicated to these two fields. INFORMS stands for the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences.