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Yearly Archives: 2007
Write it Down
Why Write it down? The longer I pursue Lean, the more I am amazed with its fundamentals. I may write more about this in the near future. Like the emphasis to write things down. In meetings, writing down decisions (what … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged Ackoff, communication, curiouscat, Process improvement, tips
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Evolving Excellence – The Book
Evolving Excellence – the book takes posts from the excellent Evolving Excellence blog by Keven Meyer and William Waddell. Those familiar with their work know that the authors provide great insight and take strong positions – they are not timid. … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lean thinking, Management
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Curious Cat Management Improvement Web Site
The Curious Cat Management Improvement site includes a wide array of resources for management professionals (and has been growing and improving, I hope, since 1996). Our calendar now includes several interesting opportunities including Performance Measures and Statistics Workshop [the broken … Continue reading
Posted in Career, curiouscat.com, Management
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Six Sigma City Government
A recent report from the Brookings Institution, Reconnecting Massachusetts Gateway Cities [the broken link was removed], has some good words on the efforts of Fort Wayne, Indiana: In a short time, the city reduced water main replacement costs by 18 … Continue reading
The Georgetown Kentucky Way
The Scott County Way [the broken link was removed] by Jillian Ogawa: It seemed only natural that Toyota’s corporate culture would influence the local schools, said Superintendent Dallas Blankenship. He estimated that one in three students in the school district … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Management Articles, Public Sector, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged Education, Lean thinking, Public Sector, Toyota
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Firing Workers Isn’t Fixing Problems
I commented on a post on Evolving Excellence that Jim Jubak is a wall street guy who has good ideas. He has posted another good article: Firing workers isn’t fixing problems [the broken link was removed] Both CEOs, Edward Zander … Continue reading
Posted in Investing, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged Deming, Investing, management, organization as a system
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Dell Innovation
Dell has been taking some interesting actions recently. Several months ago they started blogging and interacting with bloggers. Those steps have been interesting since few other companies of their size have taken such action (nothing amazing, but seem much beyond … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, IT, Management
Tagged blogs, communication, Customer focus, Innovation
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Interview with Mary Poppendieck
Lean for Software: Interview with Mary Poppendieck: We start by asking people to draw a Value Stream Map. You start with a customer problem-need request, and you go to where that request is filled. So, you put on “customer glasses”, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, IT, Lean thinking, Management, Software Development
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Talking with Toyota’s CEO
Talking with Toyota’s Top Man [the broken link was removed] But there’s still more work to be done? The scariest symptom of “big-company disease” is that complacency will breed in the company. To be satisfied with becoming the top runner, … Continue reading
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Tagged Toyota
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Transformation and Redesign
Here is an excellent article from 1999: Transformation and Redesign at the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) (pdf link) by March Laree Jacques This article describes an organizational transformation effort undertaken at the White House Communications Agency. It shares the … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Management Articles, Public Sector, Systems thinking
Tagged Ackoff, organization as a system, Public Sector, transformation
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