{"id":438,"date":"2013-01-17T19:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T00:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2013-01-17T20:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T01:19:06","slug":"lessons-learned-when-selling-optimization-to-business-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/2013\/01\/17\/supply-chain-software\/lessons-learned-when-selling-optimization-to-business-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons learned when selling optimization to business users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000088; text-align: left;\" align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Jean-Francois Puget is a distinguished engineer at IBM in the Optimization and Analytics practice. He has made available a slide deck about<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/jfpuget\/lessons-learned-16007682\">lessons learnt when selling optimization to business users<\/a>. <span style=\"color: black;\">He offers his prescient views on how businesses approach the topic of optimization &#8211; worth a read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow him at his own blog @ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibm.com\/developerworks\/mydeveloperworks\/blogs\/jfp\/?lang=en\">IT Best Kept Secret is Optimization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Jean-Francois+Puget\" rel=\"tag\">Jean-Francois Puget<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Optimization\" rel=\"tag\">Optimization<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/IBM\" rel=\"tag\">IBM<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Optimization+for+Business+Users\" rel=\"tag\">Optimization for Business Users<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean-Francois Puget is a distinguished engineer at IBM in the Optimization and Analytics practice. He has made available a slide deck about lessons learnt when selling optimization to business users. He offers his prescient views on how businesses approach the topic of optimization &#8211; worth a read. Follow him at his own blog @ IT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[404,387,403],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-optimization","category-supply-chain-software","tag-distinguished-engineer","tag-ibm","tag-jean-francois-puget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/at-scm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->