I actually agree with you there. Since OR is so multi-disciplinary, it is paramount to have a broad knowledge of all the fields it touches. Although I specialis

I actually agree with you there. Since OR is so multi-disciplinary, it is paramount to have a broad knowledge of all the fields it touches. Although I specialised in OR in my masters, my bachelors was actually CS&Economics/Business, which has been of great value to me. In terms of CS moving into machine learning and artificial intelligence, the focus tends to be on applications in the consumer sphere - e.g. analysing big data to understand and recommend to consumers ala Amazon/Netflix, or image recognition to self-driving cars. But these are mere sub-domains of OR. In business, what I think has the highest value and remains yet unexploited is the optimization branch/sub-topic of OR. The likes of production optimization, supply chain optmization, inventory optimization, facility location optimization, and my favorite, vehicle routing optimization.