The experience gained is thus incorporated into subsequent cycles. Problem analysis and solution development equate more or less to the planning stage of the MSH spiral model and the first four steps of the health planning and management model. Operations research can become an effective managment tool to resolve problems encountered in day to day health service delivery. All of the above planning and management processes consist of comparable components, and, as your might already suspect, also parallel the creative process and the learning process. In my extensive work with primary health care I have found that operations research is not only an effective management tool, but that it can also be a catalyst to promote community development.
Operations research has a lot in common with health education and development.
The three components of Operations research are quite similar to Covey's intersection of knowledge, skills and desire. Thus, the management process is linked to both the learning and creative process. Second , amid a abundance of management, learning and creative processes there are more similarites than differences. It is not necessary to learn a dozen different independent processes, but rather to understand one general process with variations and terminology applied to your working environment.