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Yearly Archives: 2009
Deming: There is No True Value
There is no true value of anything: data has meaning based on the operational definition used to calculate the data. Walter Shewhart’s Statistical Method from the Viewpoint of Quality Control, forward by W. Edwards Deming: There is no true value … Continue reading
Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development Tool by Peter Norvig
Interesting lecture on Statistical Learning as the Ultimate Agile Development Tool by Peter Norvig. The webcast is likely to be of interest to a fairly small segment of readers of this blog. But for geeks it may be interesting. He … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Software Development, Statistics
Tagged complexity, Google, IT, lecture, Software Development, Statistics, webcast
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Management Improvement Carnival #80
Jamie Flinchbaugh is hosting Management Improvement Carnival #80 on his new blog, highlights include: A New Strategy for the Kaizen Blitz from Lean Homebuilding – on PDCA, kaizen, with lots of good comments To Err is Human…To Error Proof is … Continue reading
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Tagged Carnival, Lean thinking
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Russell L. Ackoff: 1919 -2009
We lost another of the absolutely best minds in management history, this week. Somehow, many managers, do not know of Russell Ackoff’s ideas. I find that amazing. Dr. Ackoff is one of two management thinkers that any manager, that is … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Innovation, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Ackoff, Deming, management, respect for people, Systems thinking
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Worker Retention at Zappos
Tony Hsieh, chief executive of Zappos, spoke at a recent y-combinator event (two great organizations we have mentioned before). Facebook and Zappos’s Different Views on Worker Retention “We actually want our employees stay with the company for a long time, … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Deming, Fun, Management, Psychology, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged aim, Creativity, Deming, long term thinking, management, managing people, respect for people
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Communicating with the Visual Display of Data
Anscombe’s quartet: all four sets are identical when examined statistically, but vary considerably when graphed. Image via Wikipedia. ___________________ Anscombe’s quartet comprises four datasets that have identical simple statistical properties, yet are revealed to be very different when inspected graphically. … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Quality tools, Statistics
Tagged communication, Data, Statistics, visual communication, visual management
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Management Improvement Carnival #79
Mark Graban is hosting Management Improvement Carnival #79 on the lean blog, highlights include: A Natural Match (Deborah Dolezal, Lean Healthcare Grand Rounds): “As a healthcare worker and an implementer of lean, I am often struck by the similarity of … Continue reading
Managing to Test Result Instead of Customer Value
Computer hardware and software creators use benchmarks as one tool to compare the performance of alternative products. At times this can be very useful. You can learn what software of hardware is faster and that may be a very valuable … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, IT, Management, Software Development, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Data, programming, Software Development, Systems thinking, targets
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2009 Deming Prize
The Union Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded Niigata Diamond Electric (Japan) and Siam White Cement Company (Thailand) the Deming prize. Organizations receiving the Deming Prize since 2000 by country (prior to that almost all winners were from Japan): … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #78
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival provides links to recent blog posts for those interesting in improving management of organizations. Journey from Agile To Lean by Kenji Hiranabe – “Agile is a connector between business and software engineering…. From the … Continue reading
