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Yearly Archives: 2012
Process Thinking: Process Email Addresses
This is just a simple tip. When providing email address think about what the purpose is. If it is to contact a specific person then an individual’s email address makes sense. But if you are really emailing the software testing … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Process improvement
Tagged communication, internet, Process improvement, tips
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #180
The Curious Cat Management Carnival is published twice each month. The posts selected for the carnival focus on the areas of management improvement I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Improvement Guide since 1996: Deming, lean manufacturing, customer … Continue reading
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog
I am authoring the new W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog. Make sure you subscribe to the Deming Institute blog’s RSS feed if you want to keep up with my posts there. Some of the posts so far: Dr. Deming on … Continue reading
Posted in Deming
Tagged blogs, Deming, John Hunter
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Double Loop Learning Presentation by Benjamin Mitchell
Benjamin Mitchell – Using the Mutual Learning Model to achieve Double Loop Learning [the original video is not online anymore, I replaced it with another presentation by Benjamin on the same topic at a different conference at close to the … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process improvement, Psychology, Software Development
Tagged change, communication, Deming, management, management webcast, Process improvement, Psychology, theory of knowledge
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Special Cause Signal Isn’t Proof A Special Cause Exists
One of my pet peeves is when people say that a point outside the control limits is a special cause. It is not. It is an indication that it likely a special cause exists, and that special cause thinking is … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management, Manufacturing, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, Six sigma, Statistics, Systems thinking
Tagged control chart, curiouscat, Data, Deming, in-process measures, Process improvement, Quality tools, Six sigma, Systems thinking, variation
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #179
The Curious Cat Management Blog Carnival has been published since 2006. The carnival links to great management blog posts; it is published twice a month. I hope you find these post interesting and find some new blogs to start reading. … Continue reading
Seminar in Singapore: Deming’s Philosophy of Management
The local partner cancelled the seminar, therefore I have deleted the post.
Posted in Management
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Build Systems That Allow Quick Action – Don’t Just Try and Run Faster
This month Paul Borawski (CEO of ASQ) has asked the ASQ Influential Voices to share their thoughts on the cries for “faster, faster, faster” that so often is a refrain heard today. I have long said that the measure of … Continue reading
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #178
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published twice a month: with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles for the Curious Cat Management Articles site. Disruptive Management by Bill Waddell – “The professional management … Continue reading
5s at NASA
NASA did some amazing things culminating with landing on Moon. Much of what they did was doing many small things very well. They used 5s, checklists, gemba thinking, usability, simplicity, testing out on a small scale and much more. Here … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Quality tools, Systems thinking
Tagged government, lean manufacturing, Process improvement, Quality tools, USA, usability
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