Archive | July, 2012

Operations Management: Analytics ‘Godfather’

July 4, 2012

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This week I am blogging from the 2012 Production & Operations Management (P&OM) 4th World Conference in Amsterdam.  An exciting conference for analytics professionals indeed. Lest you applaud my initiative, I should disclose I am currently based in the Netherlands, so my attendance at the conference was somewhat opportunistic. However, this should not at all detract […]

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Of hype and prospects: Smart Cities, self-healing infrastructure and other myths

July 1, 2012

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Recently at the Amsterdam Smart City Event 2012, we were inundated with a dizzying array of buzz-words and heady warnings concerning the need to forge ahead rapidly with analytics-driven urban infrastructure management innovations.  Compelling projections from the likes of the UN Population Division have cited sobering demographic projections:  75% of the world’s projected 10 billion population by […]

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