Shaun Sayers is hosting Management Improvement Carnival #33 on the Capable blog, some of the highlights include

• Lean and six sigma at Amazon (by Peter Abilla) a tiny peek inside the quality philosophy of this highly successful but intensely secretive corporate beast
• Thinking outside the wooden pallet (by Mark Wroblewski) a critical examination of the role traditional materials management methods on efficiency and work flow
• Lean six sigma for health care (by Sue Kozlowski) a short and timely guide to implementation of the methodology in the health care profession
• System design - make the right thing also the easiest thing (by Shaun Sayers) an examination of some key behavioural criteria for making system compliance much more likely

Read past management carnivals.