Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2002
We describe an O.R. technique which plans the allotment of time of the collaborators of a big company. The proposed method not only considers the immediate profitability of the company, but also thetraining of the collaborators in order to guarantee the success of the company'srising generation. The proposed method uses a greedy approach and constitutes therefore a simple and fast tool for decision makers. It has beensuccessfully implemented in an important Swiss bank society.