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Author Archives: John Hunter
Lean Inventories Do Not Excuse Failing to Deliver
Low inventory levels do not mean failing to have products available for customers. Now, if you manufacturing in huge batches and can’t respond to customer feedback then it might mean failure to predict customer demand does mean failure to deliver. … Continue reading
Highlights from Recent George Box Speech
The JMP blog has posted some highlights from George Box’s presentation at Discovery 2009 [the broken link was removed] Infusing his entire presentation with humor and fascinating tales of his memories, Box focused on sequential design of experiments. He attributed … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Design of Experiments, Six sigma, Statistics
Tagged Bill Hunter, Data, Design of Experiments, Fun, George Box, John Hunter, Madison, Six sigma, Statistics
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Learn Lean by Doing Lean
In response to: Developing Your Lean Education Plan [the broken link was removed] If you actually let the lean leaders practice lean management you are probably doing more to help them learn than anything else. Reading is great, but 10 … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Education, Lean thinking, Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Career, coaching, curiouscat, Education, John Hunter, Lean thinking, management, managing people, respect for people, Systems thinking, training
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Management Improvement Carnival #81
Womack & Jones at the Gemba: “Spread” and Innovation by Mark Graban – “Jim says, basically, that you’re always going to be innovating and if the next area thinks they can just copy, then they’re missing the point.” The Curious … Continue reading
Management Webcast: Introduction to Lean Manufacturing
Webcast introduction to lean manufacturing by Ron Pereira. This is a great 9 minute introduction to the topic, for those not familiar with lean thinking. It sets the context for lean thinking and provides some history on how lean manufacturing … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Toyota Production System (TPS), webcast
Tagged lean manufacturing, management, management history, management webcast, webcast
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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
Posted in Carnival
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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