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Author Archives: John Hunter
Management Improvement Carnival #201
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival has been published since 2006. The carnival, has been published twice a month – but will now be published once or twice a month depending on how things work out. I hope you find … Continue reading
Resources for Using the PDSA Cycle to Improve Results
Using the PDSA cycle (plan-do-study-act) well is critical to building a effective management system. This post provides some resources to help use the improvement cycle well. I have several posts on this blog about using the PDSA cycle to improve … Continue reading
How to Sustain Long Term Enterprise Excellence
This month Paul Borawski asked ASQ’s Influential Voices to explore sustaining excellence for the long term. There are several keys to pulling sustained long term excellence. Unfortunately, experience shows that it is much easier to explain what is needed than … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #200
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival has been published since 2006 and this is the 200th edition. The posts selected for the carnival focus on the areas of management improvement I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Improvement … Continue reading
Jeff Bezos: Innovation, Experiments and Long Term Thinking
Jeff Bezos, bought the Washington Post. He has long showed a willingness to take a long term view at Amazon. He is taking that same thinking to the Washington Post: In my experience, the way invention, innovation and change happen … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Innovation, Process improvement
Tagged Bezos, business, business model, Customer focus, experiments, long term thinking, PDSA, Quality tools
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Management Improvement Carnival #199
The Curious Cat management blog carnival has been published since 2006. New posts are published once or twice a month. I also publish a collection management improvement articles on the Curious Cat management improvement articles site. Disentangling Standardization, Harmonization and … Continue reading
Stu Hunter Discussing Bill Hunter, Statistics for Experimenters and EVOP
In this clip, Stu Hunter talks about Bill Hunter (my father, and no relation to Stu Hunter), Statistics for Experimenters and EVolutionary OPerations (EVOP). Stu mentions Bill Hunter’s work with the City of Madison, which started with the First Street … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Statistics
Tagged Bill Hunter, Design of Experiments, evop, George Box, Madison, Public Sector, Six sigma, Statistics, Statistics for Experimenters, webcasts
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You are a Fool if You Do What I Say
Guest post from Mark Graban There’s an interesting quote from Taiichi Ohno in “Taiichi Ohno’s Workplace Management,” which I was re-reading today… “You are a fool if you do what I say. You are a greater fool if you don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Deming, Lean thinking, Quality tools
Tagged continual improvement, guest post, lean manufacturing, quote, Taiichi Ohno
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Management Improvement Carnival #198
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival has been published since 2006. The carnival, has been published twice a month – but will now be published once or twice a month depending on how things work out. I hope you find … Continue reading
Managers Are Not Non-Leaders: Managers Need to Practice Things We Classify as Leadership Traits
Saying “Managers care about efficiency and leaders care about effectiveness” is like saying “Doctors care about theory and nurses care about patients.” Managers that don’t care about effectiveness are lousy managers. Leaders that don’t care about the gemba are lousy … Continue reading →