msom-contribution-framing
Use when turning analytical or empirical results into an explicit operations contribution for a Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) manuscript — stating the managerial implication, the new operational insight, and why an operations decision is central, including the structured-abstract framing M&SOM requires.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill msom-contribution-framing --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# Contribution Framing (msom-contribution-framing) ## When to trigger - Results exist but the "so what for operations" is implicit or thin - A Department Editor says the contribution is incremental or the OM core is unclear - You are writing the introduction's contribution paragraph or the structured abstract - You must make the managerial implication explicit, not optional ## Make the operational insight explicit M&SOM judges manuscripts on **importance, originality, clarity, validity, and relevance**, and gates on an **operations decision being central**. State plainly: *what operational decision does this paper change, and how?* For analytical work, the contribution is usually the **structure** of the optimal policy and the **comparative statics** a manager can act on (e.g., "stock-up-to a threshold that rises in lead-time variability"). For empirical work, it is a **credibly identified operational effect** and the policy it implies. Avoid framing the contribution as a methodological novelty alone — the operations insight must lead. ## Managerial relevance is a required, sectioned component M&SOM requires a **structured abstract** (≤ 300 words, no technical jargon): **Problem de
- When to trigger
- Make the operational insight explicit
- Managerial relevance is a required, sectioned component
- Route the contribution to the right Department
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Contribution pass for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Worked micro-example (illustrative)
- Referee-pushback patterns and the venue fix
- Output format
What does the msom-contribution-framing skill do?
Use when turning analytical or empirical results into an explicit operations contribution for a Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) manuscript — stating the managerial implication, the new operational insight, and why an operations decision is central, including the structured-abstract framing M&SOM requires.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill msom-contribution-framing --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 984 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.