Author Archives: John Hunter

New Toyota CEO’s Views

Posted on July 22, 2005 by John Hunter

The Man Driving Toyota from Business Week: Toyota has grown in the past few years, but [there’s a risk] that a belief that the current status is satisfactory creeps into the minds of employees. That’s what I’m worried about. We … Continue reading →

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Agile Management

Posted on July 19, 2005 by John Hunter

David Anderson publishes the Agile Management Blog, wrote the Agile Management for Software Engineering: Applying the Theory of Constraints for Business Results, and works for Microsoft. Robert Scoble, technical evangelist [the broken link was removed], also with Microsoft, has posted … Continue reading →

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Managing for Creativity

Posted on July 17, 2005 by John Hunter

Managing for Creativity [broken link removed] by Richard Florida and Jim Goodnight, July-August 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review. Over many years, the leaders of SAS Institute have distilled a set of principles for getting peak performance from creative people. … Continue reading →

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Scobleizer on David Anderson

Posted on July 17, 2005 by John Hunter

Scobleizer, one of the most popular blogs (say in the top 50 most read), posted recently about David Anderson [the broken link was removed]. Robert Scoble is a Microsoft employee with the title, technical evangelist. David Anderson is also a … Continue reading →

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Saving Lives: US Health Care Improvement

Posted on July 16, 2005 by John Hunter

8 part special report by US News and Word Report on improving the US Health Care system. Join IHI in an ambitious initiative called the 100K Lives Campaign. Its goal is to save 100,000 hospital patients’ lives by 9 a.m. … Continue reading →

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Deming and Six Sigma

Posted on July 15, 2005 by John Hunter

The first Curious Cat Management Improvement blog post was on the Six Sigma and Deming Philosophies Recently the Deming Electronic Network has returned to this topic (broken link removed). The Quality Advisor web site has an article on this topic: … Continue reading →

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Fashion-Incubator on Deming’s Ideas

Posted on July 15, 2005 by John Hunter

Be corrigible [the broken link was removed]: For example, I was sold on Deming years ago but people still aren’t talking about his ideas. If there were a Nobel prize for manufacturing, Deming should have won it It is true … Continue reading →

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The Quality of Lean

Posted on July 15, 2005 by John Hunter

The Quality of Lean [the broken link was removed] post on Evolving Excellence. Lean has become so popular that companies (especially General Motors) have been snatching up lean experts, especially those with true TPS experience. Toyota itself is having difficulty … Continue reading →

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Management is Prediction

Posted on July 14, 2005 by John Hunter

re: post on prediction [link broken, so removed] on the Deming Electronic Network, Petter Ogland wrote: …that intelligence more or less boils down to updating a predictive model of the world. As far as I can see, this is the … Continue reading →

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Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt

Posted on July 14, 2005 by John Hunter

Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE. What makes a growth leader today, and how does that differ from the sort of leader who was effective at GE in the past? GE has always been a believer in leadership development. … Continue reading →

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