Cor porate Profi le
Analytics
Operations
Engineering, Inc.
Consulting firm applies advanced quantitative
methods to solve challenging operations problems.
By Mitchell Burman and Lauren Berk
A
s you exit an eighth-floor elevator, Boston’s Financial
District transforms into what
feels like a university research lab: offices adorned with academic textbooks surround young employees
receiving scholarly advice from senior
mentors. Their efforts to crack the code
of a new algorithm resemble the graduate
research process. This is neither a university nor research lab, however. Analytics
Operations Engineering (AOE) is a consulting firm passionate about bridging the
gap between Ph.D.-level theory and the
practical application of advanced analytics. While other firms are just beginning to
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realize the importance of data visualization in what they call analytics, AOE has
been applying optimization, control theory, stochastic analysis, simulation and data-mining models to business challenges
in operations, logistics, and marketing for
more than 20 years.
AOE’s projects focus on reducing
working capital, improving the customer experience and increasing profits for
clients. Its consultants work on assignments that range from providing services
to direct clients, to supporting projects
at large management-consulting firms,
to portfolio work for multiple private equity groups in their efforts to cut costs
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