Course Notes

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Introduction

(see http://www.vlerick.be/education/mba/main_module.htm#Operations)

Whether an organisation produces goods or services, there is always an operational department, which is responsible for the production of those goods and services. This course deals with the management of this department. There are several decision-making domains that can be divided into two categories: choosing and developing the production systems, and managing the production system.

The purpose of this course is to gain an insight into the principal methods used to analyse and develop production systems, to solve operational management problems and to study the interaction with other functional domains.

Cases

• Manzana
• Wotan
• Benelux Hydraulics

Subjects

• InventoryPlanningAndConrol
• TotalQualityManagement

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This will maybe come soon...

• What's nex after SOA ?
• Bad Shopping exprience at Gucci in Brussel
• Map of my cruise in Croatia
• How to be happy - The Internet Guide To Hapiness
• Indentity20 (comments on the Sxip presentation)
• Dessin sur les 9 coeurs de l'ordre marchand - sur base du Livre de Jacques Attali
• Formulas to get rich : as from wich level of income and after how much time will I be able to live from my capital ?
• 5Tiers Architecture
• Time Management picture
• La tendance "J'arrete de blogger" - cfr Loic Lemeur
• Top Managers - Are they so much worth ? What is their true value ?
• A New Internet wave is real (Web2.0). Is it a bubble ?
• SOA and batch processing
• What if we would apply fair trade to IT?
• Yahoo! 360 - http://fr.360.yahoo.com/jfdeclercq
• I tested Google Spreadsheets
• D?plier/Replier Management Pattern

Has come true :

• IBM POTs
• ILM, RISS, CIC and CDP

Some webistes to go out in Brussels/Belgium

• http://www.brusselslife.be/
• http://www.agenda.be/
• http://www.quefaire.be/
• http://www.netevents.be/
• http://www.idearts.be/
• http://www.ebru.be/

And also

• http://www.waarnaartoe.be/
• SalsaLinks

Out

• http://www.mevents.be/mparty/index.php/concept/
• http://www.fuse.be/
• http://www.carre.be/
• ?? - Nanno sur L'O, St Laureiskaai/Bonapartedok, 2000 Antwerpen
• http://www.larocca.be/
• http://www.ilovetechno.be/
• http://discotheken.startpagina.be/

Fun

IT

Describe TeleAtlas here.

Hellp Tele Atlas

http://www.teleatlas.com

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I was today at a big Microsoft event where we could have a keynote by Bill Gates himself.

After Bill Gate's keynote, an interesting debate was planned with Innovative Project or IT Managers who had innovated in their companies (Belgacom, Fortis, Borealis, FEDICT, De Lijn, Banque De Luxembourg) by applying to a Microsoft Early Adopter program.

I was shocked to see ? of the attendance (about 2000 people among which a lot of IT Professionals) leaving the room as the debate was just starting.

I consider this as an enormous lack or respect from those people against the top Belgian IT professionals who were present and who had a concrete and sound business case to defend.

Also the Microsoft organization was really great. Respecting the speakers would have been a great return to Microsoft from those who profited from the free lunch?

http://www.readyforanewday.be/

Compound Annual Growth Rate - CAGR

(source http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/cagr.asp)

The year over year growth rate of an investment over a specified period of time.

Calculated by taking the nth root of the total percentage growth rate where n is the number of years in the period being considered.

This can be written as: (Current Value/Base Value)^(1/# of years) - 1.

CAGR doesn't represent reality. It's an imaginary number that describes the rate at which an investment grew as though it had grown at a steady rate.

Axel Kahn - L'homme ce roseau pensant.

Dans ce livre, Axel Kahn explique ce que l'homme ? de sp?cifique par rapport aux animaux et philosophe sur les diff?rences entre l'animal et l'humain dans les domaines suivants :

• la relation ? l'autre
• la passion de la v?rit?
• le sentiment esth?tique
• l'int?r?t ?conomique
• la libert?
• le sens du sacr?
• le bonheur

Le bonheur

J'ai particuli?rement appr?ci? le chapitre sur le bonheur, qu?te constante chez moi.

"La vision Spinozienne selon laquelle la joie et le bonheur exigent la libre possibilit? de pers?verer dans son ?tre, d'exprimer pleinement sa nature, peut s'appliquer au monde animal dans son ensemble, l'homme constituant un cas particulier d'une singuli?re complexit? en rapport avec la richesse de l'?tre en question et son potentiel d'auto?dification."

...
"Homo Sapiens a la capacit? ?l?ctive d'?chafauder mille sortes de projets d?sirables, d'avoir l'ambition de les r?aliser, d'?tre frustr? - et donc malheureux - de ne pas y parvenir, et de toute fa?on, de n'?tre en pratique jamais combl?. "

...
"La question est bien s?r celle du niveau de la barre d'acc?s au bonheur. La placer trop haut interdit sans doute de la franchir, mais manifeste aussi la puissance de l'esprit humain. La baisser semble peu digne de ce dernier. Que faire alors ?

Etre homme, conscient ? la fois de notre animalit? et de ses trais sp?cifiques fondant notre humanit?, oser vouloir en r?aliser pleinement les potentialit?s en communion avec autrui, s'en donner les moyens. Puis, parfois se retourner sur son chemin et pouvoir se dire que, si'l n'est pas parfait, il n'est pourtant pas insignifiant. En ressentir quelque satisfaction, tenter d'?tre heureux, en somme..."

Philosophie