The Empire Strikes Back!
Ah! The weekend! Time to kick back from all the hard work and research, and spend a Sunday like the Dutch. While one of our teammates was off to Rome to teach the Italians some card games, "Ye Olde Empire" sent over a couple of blokes to make sure we wouldn’t be relaxing over the weekend.
After some Friday night revelry, those brave enough to venture out headed to the original Heineken brewery, which organizes detailed tours for the beer aficionados. While there, Joe, Adam and Sammy snagged a picture for next year’s Fisher brochure.
On the work front, we began comparing respective teams’ progress (within the scope of the NDA, of course) and noted similarities in the challenges that different companies face. For firms that have been doing business for a while, it does become difficult to identify and make decisions that affect the people with whom they share their work lives. A fresh perspective helps to offer a neutral and objective view of things and going through the process helps us tie what we learn through lectures and cases to a real business environment, with all its intricacies.
This weekend was also ‘Rollende Keukens’ or Rolling Kitchens, Amsterdam’s food truck festival. What is surprising is that even with a strong tradition and history such as Holland’s, the food truck festival with all of its diverse global and fusion cuisines received ample patronage from the Dutch. I think this place might be the answer to Prof Matta’s claim of having the best food in the world.
Well it is time to bid farewell to our friends from across the Channel, and get ready for the next week. We will start piecing together the data from Eric’s logistics optimization model. More on that to follow, but for now, it is goodbye from team WD.
Tot Ziens!
-Sree
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