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Category Archives: Education
What is Wrong with MBA’s
Two interesting posts from Compound Thinking: What is Management? [the broken link was removed – this is one of many examples of a good blog’s domain lapsing and being bought by someone to promote unrelated items.]: Management is helping others … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Management, organization as a system, Performance Appraisal
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Management Improvement Conferences
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Calendar includes several interesting conferences and seminars [the broken link was removed] taking place the rest of this year including: Deming Immersion Program [the broken link was removed] – an opportunity for no more than … Continue reading
Better Manufacturing in UK
My design for better manufacturing in UK [the broken link was removed] by James Dyson: The way forward is to make things that are better designed, better engineered and with better technology than our competitors’ products. This is the blueprint … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Manufacturing, Science, UK
Tagged Manufacturing, UK
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American Manufacturing Successes
Lean and Unseen, The Economist: But someone forgot to tell American manufacturers the bad news. Most of them have enjoyed roaring success of late. Net profits have risen by nearly 9% a year since the recession in 2001 and productivity … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Management, Manufacturing
Tagged Manufacturing
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Manufacturing is Cool
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers brings us the web site: manufacturingiscool.com [the broken link was removed – maybe manufacturing isn’t cool anymore 🙁 ]. Maybe this is the answer to Bill Waddell post: We Don’t Get No Respect 🙂 From … Continue reading
Improving Engineering Education
On our Science and Engineering blog I just posted on the Olin Engineering Education Experiment. It is a great story of doing things differently. The Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering was founded with a donation of over $400 million … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Management, Science
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Financial Education
Federal Reserve System: economic and personal financial education [the broken link was removed] “Financial education is a critical component of a robust and effective financial marketplace but it is not a panacea. Clear disclosures, wise regulation and vigorous enforcement are … Continue reading
Understanding Data
Topic: Management Improvement Statistics Abuse and Me by Jay Mathews: the Simpson’s Paradox numbers. The national average for the SAT went up only 4 points between 1981 and 2005, but the average for whites went up 10 points, for blacks … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Education, Management, Statistics
Tagged curiouscat, Data, Management, Statistics
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Lean Education Academic Network Spring Meeting
The Lean Education Academic Network (LEAN) is having their Spring meeting [the broken link was removed] at the University of Kentucky in Lexington May 10th – May 12th. This is targeted at educators and students (a fairly small slice of … Continue reading
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Organizational Learning
Why Your Organization Isn’t Learning All It Should [the broken link was removed, Harvard still doesn’t seem to realize how to manage a web resource] by Anita Tucker, Amy Edmondson, and Steven Spear Our analysis of qualitative data suggests that … Continue reading
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