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Dolor's Rants: Gaining a competitive advantage; a value chain approach to analytics and optimisation
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Thursday, 28 November 2013. Gaining a competitive advantage; a value chain approach to analytics and optimisation. Michael Porter’s value chain. Michael Porter's Value Chain. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Gaining a competitive advantage; a value chain app. For decades companies have been exploiting new technologies to improve...
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Dolor's Rants: January 2012
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Wednesday, 4 January 2012. Losing weight fact based. Made any New Year resolutions this year? What’s your #1 on the list? So you want to lose weight, but how much? One way of making that estimate is to use the Body Mass Index. The concept of BMI is the work of a Belgian mathematician, Adolphe Quetelet. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Dolor's Rants: November 2012
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Sunday, 4 November 2012. Managing Fuel Price Uncertainty in Logistics. Recently the low cost carrier Allegiant Travel announced that it would like to introduce a way of sharing the risk of fuel price fluctuations with its customers. (See Businessweek. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Managing Fuel Price Uncertainty in Logistics. Copy of...
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Dolor's Rants: November 2011
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Sunday, 6 November 2011. The incredible balancing act of Unsold and OutOfStock. Annual state of logistics. Effective inventory management is very hard. A recent article in the. Actual demand will deviate from the average demand (average doesn’t exist, does it? Leaving the supply chain manager with either unsold stock like in the ex...
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Dolor's Rants: February 2012
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Sunday, 5 February 2012. A Billion in Need. A red cup makes the difference between life and starvation for. People every day. One of every seven people on earth suffers from chronic hunger, every 10 seconds a child dies of hunger. These are horrifying facts, which become even worse when we realize that there is. It is a complex tas...
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Dolor's Rants: August 2012
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Friday, 31 August 2012. There are many examples of voting systems in which that is not the case, and I am not talking about elections in a banana republic. To give an example; in 2005 the Labour party got 57% of the seats in the British House of Commons with only 36% of the votes. Is that fair? Using this matrix a majority ranking ...
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Dolor's Rants: December 2012
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Thursday, 27 December 2012. Providing a bicycle for the mind; Mathematical modelling in portfolio decision making. In March 2012 Stanford University professor Sam Savage. The Oil and Gas industry has a history of failing to deliver on promised performance. A survey of Bickel and Bratvold. We argue that in mathematical modelling one...
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Dolor's Rants: November 2013
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Thursday, 28 November 2013. Gaining a competitive advantage; a value chain approach to analytics and optimisation. Michael Porter’s value chain. Michael Porter's Value Chain. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Gaining a competitive advantage; a value chain app. For decades companies have been exploiting new technologies to improve their p...
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Dolor's Rants: July 2013
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Sunday, 7 July 2013. Incroyable, fraude aux examen. Copy of stolen exam. The last few weeks the papers were filled with the largest exam fraud ever in the Netherlands, the news even reached the New York Times. Luckily, fraud can be detected using mathematical techniques and sharp thinking. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Last week the ...
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Dolor's Rants: March 2012
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This blog is about Operations Research applications in practice. I would like to share my experience and ideas with other practitioners in this field and invite them to react. Sunday, 11 March 2012. On Eggs and Baskets. Investment to explore the Prelude-gas field in Australia. Chemical and oil and gas companies have to make numerous investment decisions, each of them concerning large initial investments and uncertain returns. It’s even part of classical English literature. Antonio in Shakespear...The wor...
