The book on a similar subject, focused on healthcare operation management, is available on multiple websites:
"Healthcare Management Engineering in Action", Springer, 2024
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53663-2
The book provides a novel and unique perspective of OR/MS applications in healthcare operation management using fundamental management principles that play a role of the laws of physics in science. This innovative approach forms a scalable framework for developing sustainable hospital operations management solutions in a highly variable, intertwined, and resource-constrained environment. Variable patient demand and limited supply of human, financial, and material resources pose significant operational management challenges. Traditional operation management lacks a means of capturing the inevitable process variability and foreseeing the response of one unit to the change in another unit that leads to unintended consequences.
The book's unique feature is that it applies OR/MS side-by-side with traditional methods to demonstrate why the former consistently outperforms the latter. The book is written in a quite engaging style. It frequently uses the Socratic method of posing problems and challenging the readers to think from multiple angles about how to approach them. The writing style avoids a dry academic presentation that is not helpful for the book's target audience: hospital administrators and physician leadership.
The preface and contents are attached.
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Alexander Kolker
GE Healthcare
MILWAUKEE WI
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Original Message:
Sent: 03-31-2026 16:13
From: Richard Hercher
Subject: New Book just published
Operations Science Applied by Mark Spearman, Jeff Bell, and Ed Pound is published and now available on Amazon and Vital Source E-books.
The book offers a fundamentally new approach to the management of operations. It does this by first recognizing that operations in manufacturing, health care, construction projects, restaurants, or any industry, share the same inherent issues that must be addressed. These are demand, transformation, response time, cost, and whether to have inventory. What makes management difficult is the variability that affects all of these. The book is filled with real world case studies along with the concepts and analytics that show how to mitigate the corrupting influence of variability and succeed. Designed for advanced students and practicing professionals. 350 page paperback or E-Book
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Richard Hercher
Hercher Publishing Inc.
Plainfield IL
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