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.
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Generating two arbitrarily correlated R.V.
Food delivery optimization
Paper on Transportation Science (or see the working version here) Insights here: https://www.informs.org/About-INFORMS/News-Room/Press-Releases/New-Research-Says-Changes-in-Driver-Shifts-and-Pick-up-Choices-for-Food-Delivery-Services-Can-Boost-Profits “By introducing a minimum guaranteed hourly pay, platforms can gain more reliability among drivers and the benefits seem to outweigh the minimal cost increase,” said Savelsbergh. “A guaranteed pay rate of $15 an hour is 1.5 times the payment for a delivery … Continue reading Food delivery optimization
