FM Waves

Please let me have my minute of crazyness defending the profession, thinking of we are awesome.

We are ‘loco’ people, in the good sense (OR-junkies); we even think we should rule the world, for good; we are aware of every social group, even with matters for you don’t matter; we try to team play with other professionals, even when their ideas are far away from our optimisation ideas; we like to keep our proposals in an aseptic way, ideology-free; we look for the goodness; and a longer list…

But, at the end of the day, we’re like we’re just because we like it…, and enjoy it!. God bless the profession.

I found about Innocentive (Innovation + Incentive) about a year ago when I bought the book Wikinomics.

The basics of the scheme are: I throw a glove and loads of you take it!, a company has a problem and "hires" loads of brilliant minds on the web, just rewarding the best solution. As you can imagine, it’s a cost-efficient way of having an outsourced R&D department (legal matters are really taken car of too).

For what to this blog matters is the good opportunities for OR-ers Innocentive has; sections like ‘Mathematics and Statistics’, ‘Computer Science and IT’, or even  ‘Business and Enterpreneurship’, hold many challenges suitable for our profession.

So, let’s go for the money!!! and, of course, the thrill of solving world problems.

From August 2008 DAS newsletter (non-members won’t see this issue probably until next year) I can extract how ethics is again knocking on OR’s door (and economics).

A new book has been published on this matter (ethics). Professor Ron Howard and Clint Korver, in Ethics for the real world, introduce us to the "tricky" way of ethics in decision-making. I’ll put it on my wish-list!.

PS. Let’s internalise ethics into our preferences estructure, so when managing our companies and/or clients’ companies, we’ll be able to acomplish CSR for real.

…why my system gets too fast!!! NO VISITS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let’s take a look to an interesting application of "queueing theory" explaining the basic model and its use on calculating the slope of tardiness for a website (is yours crashing?).

Why Application Servers Crash and How to Avoid It

Enjoy it!

I dont’ want to seem cocky or overinflated when I present the following video:

YouTube looking forward

As Rev King, I have a dream…, but it’s nothing to do with the civil rights (although I do dream of equality). It’s got to do with OR. Time ago I started a website, kProductivity.com, and a blog, FM Waves (this one), just for empowering my hobby (OR)…, I talked about my Way of Life:

"kProductivity is the alter ego for Francisco Marco-Serrano and his desires for improving the productivity of the world he lives in. Francisco Marco-Serrano has a degree on Economics…"

…but since I read the words of Carrie Beam, I started to be rather jealous (in a healthy way). Is there a possibility for a "Way of live" to become a "way of making a living"?. I’ve been spinning around like hell, working for others, working with the family, and/or lecturing…, what I said, a scramble… until now.

"Now is the time…", and took measures: K|P|K.