This past weekend I flew to London with a few of my roommates to watch a Phillies vs. Mets baseball game. After the game, we took a taxi into the city and saw the London Eye, Big Ben, Parliament and Trafalgar Square. Five years ago I visited London with my family. It was just as exciting as when I first saw the tourist attractions. After our quick stop, we returned to the hotel for a quick nap before our 4:30 am wakeup for our 7:10 am flight back to London.
Roomies and I at the baseball game!
Big Ben and Parliament!
Monday morning was a rude awakening for the girls of apartment 13. In class, we went over our 7-Eleven Japan case. We learned about how transportation is critical to the efficiency of businesses. The changes 7-Eleven Japan made to distribution, organization, and technology improved the success of each one of its locations. It was interesting to hear about how these developments may not have worked in the United States. In the U.S. it would be nearly impossible for companies to control the meeting times of distribution centers. Perhaps a giant corporation like Amazon could manage to organize this type of operation with a timetable of delivery times, but smaller companies would not be able to afford this.
The technology 7-Eleven Japan used to track the quantity of items and the freshness of products advanced their store against competitors. In U.S. stores there are implications of technology from individual consumer scanners and those at the cash register and with employees.
After class, we had a quick lunch and visited the National Museum of Ireland. We saw the Hill of Tara which was very interesting to see the ancient Irish legends. At the Hill of Tara, there is the Stone of Destiny which screams if the King of Ireland touches it. If it screams, legend has it that the country will be in ruin, if it does not scream the land will be plentiful and people will have wealth.
There were some other interesting aspects of the museum like the invasion of Vikings in the 9th century, the importance of gold during the Bronze Age, and the importance of Catholicism. I was raised in a Catholic household so I feel welcomed in Ireland. Lastly, we also saw bodies from 200 BC that were dug up from the ground in the last ten years. It was disheartening to see the dead bodies preserved in glass cases, but they each told a story of their individual lives and what life was like in Ireland thousands of years ago.
John next to Vikings skeleton!
Nicole and the gold from the Bronze Age!
At Dataships, I have been doing a lot more work as of late. One of my recent tasks has been copying and pasting CSVs into platforms like Lusha and Cognism. By adding CSVs to these platforms I am finding phone numbers of different contacts from various websites. These phone numbers are added to the Dataships portfolio and are used by BDRs and sales representatives to expand their customer base.
Today Dataships hit their one million dollars in sales today and it was nice to feel like I contributed to their success. Tomorrow we have a celebratory lunch where I look forward to meeting more employees and hearing about their lives in Ireland.
I’m looking forward to our trip up to Galway this weekend and have decided to do the bike tour through the Cliffs of Moher. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate with our ride! Cheers!