I did previously talked about how hard was to be an economist, but trust me, it’s even harder to be an Operations Researcher.
Sometimes I even feel like Don Quixote, trying to explain even to other consultants how OR can improve operations, decision making, financial calculations, and how you can better eat your brunch (this was a joke though 
).
Anyway, thanks to the business cases from ScienceOfBetter.org and the articles from Analytics I can at least send them to digest little OR knowledge pills they can read on their own time. Not being evagelised by oneself probably will prove better method. However, I’ll keep trying to kill those giants (although they were windmills… powered thanks to OR… LoL).
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Very recently we were able to read about how the economic recovery (not in Spain though! 
) was amplifying the increase in the inventories all along the value chain: the bullwhip effect.
As during the last quarter I’ve been thinking and discussing about the educational value chain (from primary school to continuous education after graduation, mainly at work), I’ve found this bullwhip effect can be in place too. We have to take into account that as part of the educational value chain, we professors are part of the machinery that converts students with X competences, skills and knowledge into students with Y competences, skills and knowledge, where Y > X (I hope!). Is this process totally optimised. Our guess is NO!; (1) we need to analyse how the transformation process is developed, to set goals and effectiveness and efficiency indexes be calculated to allow optimisation of every phase, and (2) coordinate the various phases of the educational life in order to optimise the whole chain.
Overqualification?: that’s what I would call the ‘educational bullwhip effect’, and one of the answers would be it is due to lack of the coordination (above #2).
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I would say Operations Research is about applying common sense… although upgraded by means of maths and technology.
Me
Something I wanted to say, just for the record.
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