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Category Archives: Management Articles
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
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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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The Pitfalls of Six Sigma
The Pitfalls of Six Sigma [the broken link was removed]: Six sigma has strong advocates in the manufacturing world for its ability to help factories get lean, but many companies are feeling that their time and financial investment in six … Continue reading
Thinking Lean
Thinking Lean [the broken link was removed] by Doug Rich and Dave Bassett, from the May 2005 edition of Manufacturing Engineering. The first thing the kaizen initiative did was to simulate the process layout. This was accomplished through a series … Continue reading
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Search for Improvement With Complex Six Sigma
Search for Improvement With Complex Six Sigma [the broken link was removed] by Helen D’Antoni: To understand what companies are doing to curtail costs while improving performance, InformationWeek’s sister publication, Optimize magazine, conducted a survey of 156 business-technology executives, asking … Continue reading
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Hands on Lean Process Improvement
Shingo’s ‘Know Why’ Hands-On Lean [the broken link was removed] by Bill Waddell. From Superfactory: The essential element here is to be sure to identify every move the part makes from receipt to finish. How you represent it on the … Continue reading
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