By Homero Contreras All operations and actions of any company must be led by a strategy, and IEs can be involved on most of these operations. In recent years, issues about social responsibility of the companies have been highlighted, especially in the care of the environment and ecology. On January of this year, Michael Porter … Continue reading
Por Homero Contreras Las diferentes operaciones de las compañías, en las cuales los ingenieros industriales podemos tener participación, definitivamente deben estar soportadas por una estrategia. Sin embargo, en los últimos años, los temas de responsabilidad social se han puesto de moda en todas las industrias, comenzando por los temas de protección del medioambiente. A principios … Continue reading
By Tamara Wilhite Emailing users a survey provides a low-cost and highly convenient way for IT teams to receive feedback on what their customers think. Yet the design of online surveys affects the results. Design surveys to fill no more than one screen. User completion drops off for each screen that must be filled in. … Continue reading
By Patrick Foxworthy Multi-discipline systems engineer Kettering University, 2008 In light of recent events here in Virginia, namely the 5.9 earthquake felt early this afternoon, I began to think about how our wide range of IE skills can be applied to the practices of emergency preparedness, response and recovery. Fortunately, at the time of this … Continue reading
