Link: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Work-You-Can-Get/dp/1421437961 What does it really take to succeed in academia? Do you want to go to graduate school? Then you're in good company: nearly 80,000 students will begin pursuing a PhD this year alone. But while almost all of new PhD students say they want to work in academia, most are destined for disappointment. … Continue reading [Book] Good Work If You Can Get It – How to Succeed in Academia
Linear Programming – book
With its focus on solving practical problems, the book features free C and Python programs to implement the major algorithms covered, including the two-phase simplex method, the primal-dual simplex method, the path-following interior-point method, and and the homogeneous self-dual method. In addition, the author provides online tools that illustrate various pivot rules and variants of … Continue reading Linear Programming – book
Crowd-based contact centers like LiveOps
Here are some top vendors in the cloud-based contact center market: Interactive Intelligence Group Inc CiscoSystems Inc Five Inc Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories Inc Oracle Corporation X Inc Incontact Inc 3clogic Inc ConnectFirst Inc Aspect Software Mitel Networks Corporation Liveops Social
American Factory (2019)
Great documentary to watch on factory operations, worker safety, labor and class struggle, and culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36QeKOJ2Fc
(Serious) games to teach Project Management
PM Zone GamePlan (see also here) Will add more as soon as I discover them. Curious to know of any related games to teach Innovation or Ops.
