M E M O R Y L E S S N E S S

MBA Gym

This looks interesting.

The MBA Gym provides free, interactive online training sessions on key concepts taught on the Masters in Business Administration programme at business schools. It consists of a series of workouts, each lasting for approximately 15 minutes. Each workout focuses on a particular discipline such as Strategy or Finance and has been designed to give a brief and engaging introduction to the subject.

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18)

1. Faith No More (90)
2. KISS (27)
3. Lady Gaga (15)
4. Wu-Tang Clan (11)
5. The Rolling Stones (3)

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Factory Efficiency Comes to the Hospital

via chlady:

The system is just one example of how Seattle Children’s Hospital says it has improved patient care, and its bottom line, by using practices made famous by Toyota and others. The main goals of the approach, known as kaizen, are to reduce waste and to increase value for customers through continuous small improvements.

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Brian Lucas, a spokesman for Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, says the lean efforts have been used to reduce unnecessary tasks and have not resulted in lower nurse-to-patient ratios. “To the contrary,” he said, “they have allowed nurses to spend more time delivering care to patients.”

It’s good to see that OR/IE is alive in healthcare.  While I agree with the nurses who think time studies are inappropriate for hospitals, inventory management could greatly benefit healthcare providers from both a cost and a patient care perspective.

Now if someone would just implement this.  :-)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11)

1. Ozzy Osbourne (26)
2. Public Enemy (18)
3. Black Sabbath (18)
4. Faith No More (15)
5. Nirvana (9)

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Buffon's needle

bestofwikipedia:

In mathematics, Buffon’s needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon: Suppose we have a floor made of parallel strips of wood, each the same width, and we drop a needle onto the floor. What is the probability that the needle will lie across a line between two strips?  Buffon’s needle was the earliest problem in geometric probability to be solved; it can be solved using integral geometry. The solution, in the case where the needle is not greater that the width of the strips, can be used to design a Monte Carlo method for approximating the number pi. (via @mohankv)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4)

1. Marilyn Manson (36)
2. Saul Williams (29)
3. The Exploited (20)
4. Sanctity (12)
5. Nine Inch Nails (6)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27)

1. Metallica (89)
2. The Bloodhound Gang (47)
3. Megadeth (43)
4. Hagfish (14)
5. Rob Zombie (11)

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