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Author Archives: John Hunter
Using Books to Ignite Improvement
Recommended Reading From an Employee-Owned Company [the broken link has been removed] Soon after, another Web Industries employee picked up “Kanban Made Simple,” a guide for adopting Kanban, Toyota Motor Corp.’s just-in-time manufacturing process by John M. Gross and Kenneth … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged Books, continual improvement, transformation
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12 Stocks for 10 Years – Adding Danaher
With Microsoft’s offer for Yahoo I am replacing Yahoo with Danaher in the 12 Stocks for 10 Years portfolio. Other stocks in the portfolio include Google up 137% since purchased, PetroChina up 132%, Amazon up 106% and Toyota up 44%. … Continue reading
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Improvement Through Designed Experiments
The Rationale of Scientific Experimentation by John Dowd explains the value of designed experiments. Another difficulty in industrial experimentation is the existence of interactions. As has been stated, manufacturing processes are complex with many factors involved. In many processes these … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Design of Experiments, Management, Science, Statistics
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Management Improvement Carnival #28
Please submit your favorite management posts to the carnival. Read the previous management carnivals. Freedom = Success (And not the other way around) by Polly LaBarre – “we’re literally laboring under a myth (namely, time put in + physical presence … Continue reading
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Enrich Society
Jim Press and Toyota, Setting Sights on No. 1 former president of Toyota Motor North America The Toyota family, very strongly, still has their name on the building and [have] a big influence in the company. The original founding [principal] … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Toyota Production System (TPS), webcast
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Giving Away Your Service for Free on Weekends
Copilot is a cool application that lets you control someone else’s computer. So you can receive technical support remotely. You let someone access your computer and copilot takes care of the sometimes very complex task of linking the two computers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, IT, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Joel Spolsky, marketing
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Nice Design Example, the eco-cook
dining in 2015 Basically I just think this is cool. I could try and explain how it shows creativity and reducing waste… but really I just like it. From the designer: My eco-cook is an object that helps to save … Continue reading
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Learn from Russel Ackoff
The In Thinking network offers many great ways to learn. This week they have 4 hour long conference call discussions with Russ Ackoff. Thought Pieces (suggested links to review in preparation for the conference call) Lecture on “Systems Practice” at … Continue reading
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Creating Jobs
Do Lean Companies Create Fewer Jobs? No, they create more. If you assume the lean company grows sales at the same rate as some poorly management company then it may well be that the lean company creates fewer jobs. However … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Deming, Economics, Lean thinking, Management, Popular, Systems thinking
Tagged Deming, economy, jobs, lean manufacturing, Manufacturing
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Top 10 Manufacturing Countries 2006
Here is updated data from the UN on manufacturing output by country. China continues to grow amazingly moving into second place for 2006. I plan to write more on this data in the Curious Cat Investing and Economics Blog. UN … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, India, Manufacturing, quote
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