Tuesday, July 14, 2009

LGO - Leaders for Global Outsourcing

Rumor has it, we are now 2/3rds done with summer exams. We had our operations mid-term today. Inventory theory, process flow, wait times, etc. We were allowed a full page "cheat sheet" to write all of the equations on so we didn't have to remember them. Overall, it seemed pretty straight forward, but you never know until you get the test back.

One entertaining aspect of the program that came out of today's exam is the nick name for the LGO program - "Leaders for Global Outsourcing" (for the record, it is officially called leaders for global operations). We do a lot of team work in our summer teams of 6 people. As the workload increases, the work style transitions from the "entire team work" to "sub-teams of two sharing their results with the team of 6". This divide and conquer motif culminated this week when one or two individuals shared their cheat sheets with the entire class. I guess it is no secret that we help each other out. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to accomplish everything.