Ethics guidelines from INFORMS focus on analytics and operations research - B2B News Network

As more enterprise firms and their customers start to question the use of data in analytics, research and artificial intelligence tools, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is offering an 18-point set of guidelines to ensure ethics in quantitative decision-making. Based in Catonsville, Md., INFORMS was established in 1995 following a merger between the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. Its ethics guidelines, which are available as a foldable printout, are grouped into three broad categories where operations research and analytics are likely to have the greatest impact. These include society, business organizations themselves and those working directly in professional roles involving quantitative decision-making. "We aspire to be . . . Questioning of whether there are more effective and efficient ways to reach a goal," one of the guidelines says, for example, as well as "realistic in our claims of achievable results, and in acknowledging when the best course of action may be to terminate a project."