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I am quite new to blogging so I will have to get warmed up a bit. Well as mentioned by my fellow classmates we're in the thesis mode. Our first draft due date is just around the corner.
The weather is supposed to get better here in Cambridge but somehow it was snowing yesterday. I live in the graduate dorms "Warehouse" we have these shuttles that take us directly to classes which are mostly located in the East side. Twice in a row the passengers in our dorm were rejected by the shuttle driver because he had already taken a full load at Sidney Pacific before it reached our dorms.
So I ended up walking to class with my classmates in the snow. Luckily we were only 12 minutes late. Anyway, the shuttle was a smaller one designed for spring/summer. Normally during the winter MIT uses a bigger shuttle to carry a bigger capacity. All of a sudden "logistics" came to my mind. I was thinking about Yossi's "Resilient Enterprise" because the book discusses how to design flexibility when crisis comes. This is analogous to our situation with the MIT shuttle in which they didn't prepare for this snow in April and the customers (passengers) are upset because some of us waited 30 minutes just to get rejected by the shuttle drive twice. Hence, the cycle service level drops and only if we had other choices, we would have chosen other means to go to school.
Anyway, I don't want to bore people with so much logistics but I find that what we are exposed to can be applied to even mundane activities which makes MLOG applicable to all facades of life.
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