Monthly Archives: February 2011

Outstanding discussion of Internet Metering Plans

Must reading, loyal readers. Here we have a close analysis by a top operations scholar about internet metering– elimination of unlimited usage plans for phone and internet.

It’s an important technology and supply chain issue, and ultimately will affect all.  I’m not taking sides here. It’s important to be aware of the arguments on all sides. and furthermore, it will keep your operations and economics skills sharp to move back and forth between those different modes of thinking.

Bandwith hogs and network performance « The Operations Room

 

Logistics Management Ezine

Outstanding source of current news. See maritime and ocean links.

Logistics Management

 

Logistics Human Resources

The BLS is a good source of data and information. http://www.bls.gov

OOChart – OOQ Online, Winter 2010-11  Transportation occupation

Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

CPS Tables   List of jobs in transportation and number of folks in them– several pages in; also all other industries. You can get this series for many past years i am sure.

Series ID Formats   How to construct the code for accessing the BLS data tables for the historical data by occuptation and industry. you need to do this to get historical data for transportation industries.

Go to data tables section and follow directions to get the series. You can download them into excel and slice and dice.   BLS Series Report : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Bettter source of data   Industries at a Glance: Industry at a Glance Home   get by all industries for the transporation industry categories. you cna get historical data here also.