TCP/IP, as in TCP/IP

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Posted in internet by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jul 31, 2006

The protocol TCP/IP is designed in a way that ensures no communication breakdown all over the Internet. This characteristic is as desirable as the need for a smooth and uninterrupted information flow is required. However, as I’ll try to expose in my current research, that this architecture could be breaking the technical efficiency of this information transfer.

Even easier: Geek boredom.

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Posted in open source by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jul 24, 2006

Step by step and thanks to the Debian team installing a powerful open-source CRM is easier than ever.
For those of you that remember my previous “geek” series posts, forget them!. Now it is even easier to install the Debian OS, to install the database, to install the webserver, the Servlet server, and most important, the Java JDK.

Why is this boring?. Well, considering I’m not a geek I find it entertaining, because it’s easy, because I can focus on the core, the business model, not the technicalities!. If you’re a geek though, you’ll find it anathema, boring, obtuse…

I carry on later my dear colleagues!

More on inventory management!

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Posted in inventory management by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jul 21, 2006

Crawling the web…, well, actually “googling”, I have found a site on inventory management. Effective Inventory Management, Inc. is a company that deals with that, “effective inventory management”.

I like their motto: “It’s easy to turn cash into inventory… the challenge is to turn inventory back into cash!“.

However, the most I like is their articles section, awsome!.

http://www.effectiveinventory.com/index.html

No non-sense, it explains in plain English the magic of inventories. Thank you!

TCO/TCP & BSc

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Posted in logistics by Francisco Marco-Serrano @ Jul 14, 2006

I recently finished the essay on the integration of “total cost of ownership”/”total cost of procurement” within Kaplan & Norton’s “Balanced Scorecard”. At the moment is just a preliminary version and regretfully only available in Spanish (I’m hoping to have the final version ready in English soon). By the moment, here you have!

Title: Procurement Process Efficiency Analysis: Looking for a Managerial Monitoring Tool .

Abstract: By means of the procurement process analysis and the deviations of the optimal behaviours associated to the company’s strategy, a monitoring process is proposed. We base our proposal on the total cost of ownership in order to offer a synthetic procurement index for the balanced scorecard.

Keywords: procurement efficiency, total cost of ownership, balanced scorecard, data envelopment analysis.

JEL Classifications: D21, L21, M10.

Link: TCP.pdf