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Monthly Archives: January 2008
Enrich Society
Jim Press and Toyota, Setting Sights on No. 1 former president of Toyota Motor North America The Toyota family, very strongly, still has their name on the building and [have] a big influence in the company. The original founding [principal] … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Toyota Production System (TPS), webcast
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Giving Away Your Service for Free on Weekends
Copilot is a cool application that lets you control someone else’s computer. So you can receive technical support remotely. You let someone access your computer and copilot takes care of the sometimes very complex task of linking the two computers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, IT, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Joel Spolsky, marketing
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Nice Design Example, the eco-cook
dining in 2015 Basically I just think this is cool. I could try and explain how it shows creativity and reducing waste… but really I just like it. From the designer: My eco-cook is an object that helps to save … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management
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Learn from Russel Ackoff
The In Thinking network offers many great ways to learn. This week they have 4 hour long conference call discussions with Russ Ackoff. Thought Pieces (suggested links to review in preparation for the conference call) Lecture on “Systems Practice” at … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Education, Management, Systems thinking
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Creating Jobs
Do Lean Companies Create Fewer Jobs? No, they create more. If you assume the lean company grows sales at the same rate as some poorly management company then it may well be that the lean company creates fewer jobs. However … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Deming, Economics, Lean thinking, Management, Popular, Systems thinking
Tagged Deming, economy, jobs, lean manufacturing, Manufacturing
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Top 10 Manufacturing Countries 2006
Here is updated data from the UN on manufacturing output by country. China continues to grow amazingly moving into second place for 2006. I plan to write more on this data in the Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog. UN … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, India, Manufacturing, quote
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Poor Service from Amazon
I like using Amazon, most of the time. But their decision to erect barriers for communication I find extremely annoying. Any time anything goes wrong you might as well be dealing with some organization in the middle of nowhere without … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Management, Process improvement
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Prediction Markets with Google Employees
Another interesting experiment from Google: Using Prediction Markets to Track Information Flows: Evidence from Google In Google’s terminology, a market asks a question (e.g., “how many users will Gmail have?”) that has 2”5 possible mutually exclusive and completely exhaustive answers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Data, Economics, Google, Psychology, Statistics, Systems thinking
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Management Improvement Carnival #27
The Management Improvement Carnival #27 (Best of 2007) has been posted by Ron Pereira. Highlights include: 10 Common Misconceptions About Lean Manufacturing: 1. Lean production = volume production. In Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management he suggested that the Toyota system was … Continue reading
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Measuring the Health of Nations
Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier Analysis In a Commonwealth Fund-supported study comparing preventable deaths in 19 industrialized countries, researchers found that the United States placed last. While the other nations improved dramatically between the two study periods … Continue reading
