Last August 13th was the international day for left-handedness, that added to the fact of the Presidential elections in the USA caused anyone noticed Obama was left-handed…, although not the only one of those that habitated the White House (list here). Powerful and notorious gents and ladies, not to count with loads of cellebs are ‘tainted’ with this disfunction of the human brain that causes to have less life-expectancy than their right-handed peers, this usually attributed to the ’struggle to survive’ in a ‘World of Righties’ (see references in Wikipedia).
How con OR help the lefties?… At the moment the only references I’ve found are ‘on the left-hand side…‘ 
PS Today I just noticed my iPod responds the other way round when I try to use it with my right hand: the left one.
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Very well known is the infamous Einstein’s E=mc2 (Energy of the stand-still particle equals the product of its mass times the square of the speed of light; here better explained); not so reputed is the one refering to sinergy (1+1=3). But for synergies I better prefer:
Network Power = [ agent power ] n
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It’s with proud we want to announce, as loads of other OR bloggers have done, the 2009 Franz Edelman Price nominees list.
Zara, part of the Inditex Group, is a spanish company, well-known for its application of aggresive SCM/PLM technicques, always explained in Busines Administration lessons as a succesful Operations Management Strategy.
Kudos!
- Norske Skog, for Norske Skog benefits as O.R. plays a ‘pivotal’ role in the battle for improved profitability
- CSX Railway, for CSX Railway Cashes in on Optimized Equipment Distribution
- Marriott International, for Group Pricing Optimizer
- IBM, for Analytics-Driven Solutions for Increased Sales Force Productivity
- Zara, for Zara Uses Operations Research to Reengineer Its Global Distribution Process
- HP, for Analytics for Product Portfolio Management
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