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I would like to share a snippet from a blog post of Joel Spolsky, co-founder and CEO of Fog Creek Software in New York City, in which he is discusses real-world examples of profit optimization that went wrong. Here's what he suggests, to get it right:
"...all of this fancy optimization stuff is called operations research. It's what Michael Gerber talks about in his best-selling book The E...