Weird Measurements provoke weird behavior

Posted on August 29, 2011 by | Leave a comment

You get what you measure. Here’s a new take on it.

Perverse incentives in managing hospital queues « The Operations Room

 

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Google File System

Posted on August 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Google has designed a very large distributed file system with certain capabilities. This document outlines the strengths and architecture.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/labs.google.com/en/us/papers/gfs-sosp2003.pdf

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US Manufacturing: We’ve got to increase it

Posted on August 27, 2011 by | Leave a comment

See what Andy Grove, the former head of Intel, has to say about why we need to have American manufacturing strength.  It’s where the jobs are!

Andy Grove – Technology Review

Some pro and con from Northwestern.

Why we should (not?) worry about manufacturing « The Operations Room


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