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Yearly Archives: 2007
Using Google to Eliminate Some IT Costs
Computer Science 101: A Case Study In Google Applications [the broken link was removed]: Sannier plans to shut down the university’s own e-mail servers later this spring. When that happens, thousands more will move over. The portal provides access to … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Innovation, IT, Management
Tagged disruptive innovation, Google, Innovation, IT, waste
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Exposing CEO Pay Excesses
The politics of pay from The Economist: Although barely one-tenth of the 2,000 biggest American companies have yet reported under the new rules, the tally of negative headlines is already mounting. “There are already plenty of examples of firms reporting … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged executive pay, management, overpaid executives
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Making Suits in the USA
Trying On Toyota’s Methods (site broke link so I removed it): Keeping Abboud’s suit manufacturing in the United States has advantages, such as reduced shipping time, he said. He also believes overseas workers can’t beat the quality and price of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Lean thinking, Management
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Eric Schmidt Podcast – Google Innovation and Entrepreneurship
iinnovate podcast interview with Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. “Normal sales quotas” – oops maybe Google can learn from others in this area. I found it interesting that Eric Schmidt teaches at Standford even while being the CEO of … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Innovation, IT, Management, webcast
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Errors in Thinking
The Doctor’s In, But Is He Listening?, text and podcast from NPR: Jerome Groopman (photo) is a doctor who discovered that he needed a doctor. When his hand was hurt, he went to six prominent surgeons and got four different … Continue reading
Posted in Health care, Management, webcast
Tagged critical thinking, Health care, theory of knowledge
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Experiment and Learn
Experimenting with milkshakes? I have been on a mission to convince firms to do simple experiments that will give them feedback regarding the decisions that they make. Just as with people (as Anders Ericsson studies), firms cannot learn with feedback. … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Design of Experiments, Management, Quality tools
Tagged experiments, iteration, management
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Deming Institute Seminar
The Deming Institute is sponsoring, How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out of Business [the broken link was removed], 23-25 April, 2007 in Lansing, Michigan. I will be co-presenting the seminar. Twenty-seven faulty management and corporate governance practices … Continue reading
Posted in curiouscat.com, Deming, Education, Management
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Best Buy Rethinks the Time Clock
Best Buy Rethinks the Time Clock [the broken link was removed]: With a classic flextime structure, workers arrange their schedules with their boss in advance. But under a program called Rowe, for “results-only work environment,” the boss has no say … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Respect
Tagged managing people, respect for people
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Management Improvement Carnival #7
How are stories of successful companies leading us astray? by Karen Wilhelm – “correlation does not equal causation, a inspecting a “sample” consisting only of good parts will not yield good information about a process, and anecdotal evidence is interesting … Continue reading
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Simple Solutions That Work
Nurse, the maggots [the broken link was removed] Maggots clean wounds 18 times faster than normal treatments, can conquer MRSA and would save the NHS millions. … Recent studies have indicated that maggot therapy can cut treatment duration from 89 … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Health care, Management, Science
Tagged Creativity, Health care
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