pom-theory-development
Use when building the model or mechanism for a Production and Operations Management (POM) manuscript — formalizing assumptions, deriving equilibria/propositions for analytical work, or developing OM hypotheses for empirical/behavioral work. Builds the argument; it does not run the analysis (pom-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (pom-contribution-framing).
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill pom-theory-development --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.
# Model & Theory Development (pom-theory-development) ## When to trigger - You have an operations question but no formal model or sharp mechanism - Your assumptions are mathematically convenient but operationally unmotivated - A reviewer says "the model is not well grounded in practice" or "the mechanism is unclear" - Empirical results are interpreted as bare correlations with no operations mechanism ## POM's dominant track: analytical modeling — done rigorously POM is historically anchored in **analytical/mathematical modeling** (operations-research / management-science-style optimization, stochastic modeling, and game theory), so theory development most often means **building a model**, not deriving verbal hypotheses. Make every modeling choice defensible: - **Decision primitive & objective.** Name the operational decision (capacity, inventory, pricing, scheduling, sourcing, routing, staffing) and the objective (cost, profit, fill rate, waiting time, welfare). - **Assumptions tied to operations reality.** Justify each assumption (lead times, demand distribution, information structure, rationality) against an operational constraint — not analytical convenience. - **Solution concep
- When to trigger
- POM's dominant track: analytical modeling — done rigorously
- Empirical, behavioral, and data-science tracks
- The practice-relevance gate
- Checklist
- Anti-patterns
- Operating pass for Production and Operations Management
- Output format
What does the pom-theory-development skill do?
Use when building the model or mechanism for a Production and Operations Management (POM) manuscript — formalizing assumptions, deriving equilibria/propositions for analytical work, or developing OM hypotheses for empirical/behavioral work. Builds the argument; it does not run the analysis (pom-data-analysis) or frame the contribution (pom-contribution-framing).
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill pom-theory-development --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 909 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.