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Category Archives: Management Articles
Saving Lives: US Health Care Improvement
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
Posted in Economics, Health care, Management Articles, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged Health care
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The Quality of Lean
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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Could Toyota Fix GM
re: Thomas L. Friedman: Save us, O Toyota based on Thomas L. Friedman article in the Herald Tribune Save us, O Toyota [the broken link was removed] where he states: I have a question: If I am rooting for General … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Management Articles
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The Art of Lean
The Art of Lean [the broken link was removed], by Michael Rovito, The Sunday Challenger, Kentucky The lean style is the process of eliminating all waste in a manufacturing company by streamlining and simplifying shipping. Three key tools, according to … Continue reading
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Marketers Are Embracing Statistical Design of Experiments
Marketers Are Embracing Statistical Design of Experiments (site broke link so I removed it) by Richard Burnham. Crayola® conducts an e-mail marketing DOE to attract parents and teachers to their new Internet site. The company discovers a combination of factors … Continue reading
Posted in Design of Experiments, Management Articles, Six sigma, Statistics
Tagged Design of Experiments, marketing, Six sigma
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A Lean Walk Through History
A Lean Walk Through History [link broken, so it was removed] by Jim Womack author of Lean Thinking Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation by James P. Womack and Daniel T. Jones, 2003 and The Machine That Changed … Continue reading
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Six Sigma and the Evolution of Statistical Management Methods
Six-Sigma: the Evolution of 100 Years of Business Improvement Methodology (pointy haired bosses broke the link so I removed it) by Ronald D. Snee. The article includes a nice very quick summary of the development of statistical methods to aid … Continue reading
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Six Sigma at the Kennedy Space Center
The Lessons of Six Sigma [broken link was removed]: Management tool helped refocus priorities, by Napoleon Carroll and Christa Casleton : Process ownership is not a recognizable role in the CFO organization; it doesn’t fit anywhere in the standard position … Continue reading
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Iran Society for Quality – Blog
Iran Society for Quality – Blog [the broken link was removed]. I can’t read most of the site, but they seem to have a blog.
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Why Go Through the Painful Performance Process
Why Go Through the Painful Performance Process: The performance management blog points to an interesting study by PeopleIQ [the broken link was removed] that says that only 13 percent of employees and managers and 6 percent of CEOs think their … Continue reading
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