Mr. Huseby attributed part of the Nook operations' problems to unduly optimistic sales forecasts made under the previous management.
Over the last year, it has had technical and operations problems, though company executives maintained that the problems were isolated cases and not caused by systemic problems.
Moyer agrees that practical skills for operations, problem-solving, and teamwork are important, as are strong communication skills both written and verbal.
Further, one can also study the problems induced by operations, problems induced by design, and problems induced by maintenance.
Shell's failed 2012 drilling program, culminating in the Kulluk and Noble Discoverer challenges, was not just symptomatic of Shell's larger operations problems, however.
According to railroad statistics, other delays from operations problems, signal failures and malfunctions of grade crossing equipment more than doubled in 2015.
Another air operation problem -- which was solved during our recent talks in Baghdad -- concerned the use of helicopters flying into the no-fly zones.
The main advantage of this formulation is the reduction of decision variables in the operation problem.
For the dynamic BS operation problem, they derive two greedy BS turn on/off algorithms.
