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Operations Research: The Art of Optimization
By Amit Agarwal

Operations research has gained enormous importance in every industry. The digital age has brought about a revolution in operations research, where researchers can precisely calculate, analyze, and decide how best to optimize a system. Read on to find out how operations research came into existence, its definition, and popular operations research techniques.

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Date: 04-28-2008
Article Type: Operations Career Feature





People, Not Processes, Are Important in Purchasing Operations
By Amit Agarwal

Purchasing is the very first step towards operations for a company. It is the duty of purchasing managers to know exactly what and how much to purchase to maintain the perfect inventory. This article discusses a survey by McKinsey & Company which proves that purchasers are more important than processes.

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Date: 04-17-2008
Article Type: Operations Job Search Tips





Five Ways to Perfect Your Company's Order Picking Operations
By Amit Agarwal

To stay competitive in today's marketplace, companies need to continuously improve their warehousing processes, which include order picking operations. This article provides five suggestions for perfecting your company’s order picking operations.

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Date: 04-14-2008
Article Type: Operations Career Feature





A Penny Pincher's Guide to Buying Software
By Gene Marks

My company resells business software. So here's a secret that I'd like to share with my fellow penny-pinching business owners: big software companies really only care about two things — how many licenses they can sell and how to make sure their customers are roped into annual support agreements. Do they care about your long-term profitability? Nah. As long as you're paying maintenance, that's all that matters.

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Date: 02-11-2008
Article Type: Operations Career Feature
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Operational Intelligence Solutions
By Akbar Ali

When you hear the term ''operational intelligence,'' the first thing that comes to mind may likely be secret military undertakings. But you’d be only partially right. In modern parlance, operational intelligence has much more to do with understanding the ways in which businesses function, grow, and operate within the contemporary technological framework. Put simply, operational intelligence monitors business processes as they occur within a company’s computer systems, dispensing data on how smoothly (or poorly) such systems are working.

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Date: 01-21-2008
Article Type: Operations Career Feature





Watch Out For Fake References When Buying Business Software
By Curt Finch, CEO, Journyx

When you're making a large investment in software, you want to be sure that you're buying from a reputable company that will be there to support you long term.

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Date: 12-31-2007
Article Type: Operations Career Feature





SCADA Testing Steps: Using This Assessment to Protect Your Critical Infrastructure
By Carol Crawford

Recently our network and environmental security assessment work has brought us in front of transportation clients as well as those protecting other critical infrastructures, such as electric and water utilities. What these both have in common is that their operations have little or no room for downtime during a disaster or an emergency.

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Date: 12-03-2007
Article Type: Operations Career Feature





Survey: 'White Collar' Workers Play Video Games at Work
By Garth Chouteau

PopCap Games, the leading developer and publisher of casual games, unveiled the results of a survey targeting “white collar” workers who play casual video games. While white collar workers’ consumption of casual games at home mirrored the overall casual gamer audience fairly closely, the survey revealed some surprising facts about the playing of casual games in the workplace — and the motives behind the activity.

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Date: 11-26-2007
Article Type: Operations Career Feature





Business Travel Made Easy
By Christi Youd

Cancelled flights, lost luggage, presentation programs that won’t run — the list of potential business trip challenges is virtually endless. In fact, when it comes to business travel, it seems that problems and delays are the norm, not the exception. The key is to be prepared for anything that comes your way. Only then will arriving at your destination be as simple as your morning drive into the office.

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Date: 11-19-2007
Article Type: Operations Career Feature





The Top Six Workplace Taboos
By Traci Love

Kissing co-workers, consuming alcoholic beverages, and spreading rumors about colleagues are all considered workplace taboos, according to a new survey. 35% of those workers surveyed admitted to kissing a co-worker on the job, and 31% have consumed alcohol while on the clock. Spreading rumors seems to be a favorite of 19% of people surveyed.

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Date: 11-12-2007
Article Type: Operations Career Feature




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