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Category Archives: Management
Quality is a Journey to Excellence – Improving the System
Quality is a Journey to Excellence is a 2 day management seminar that Bill Hunter (my father) recorded in 1985 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The embedded clip shows the third section of a the seminar on improving the system. Deming … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management, Systems thinking, webcast
Tagged continual improvement, Data, Deming, management, Process improvement, Statistics, Systems thinking, webcast, William Hunter
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In Praise of Data-Driven Management (AKA “Why You Should be Skeptical of HiPPO’s”)
Guest post by Justin Hunter, originally published 18 August 2009. Jeff Fry recently linked to a fantastic webcast in Controlled Experiments To Test For Bugs In Our Mental Models. I would highly recommend it to anyone without any reservations. Ron … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Design of Experiments, IT, Management, Psychology, Quality tools, Software Development, Statistics
Tagged Data, Design of Experiments, Software Development, software testing, Statistics
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Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute
I have established the Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute as a non profit that will serve as an online resource to help those that want to improve the practice of management. Curious Cat Management Improvement Institute is dedicated to furthering … Continue reading
Posted in curiouscat.com, Management
Tagged CCMII, long term thinking, management
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Design Your Organization to Serve Customers Well
Quality is a Journey to Excellence is a 2 day management seminar that Bill Hunter (my father) recorded in 1985 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The embedded clip shows the second section of a the seminar discussing customers and how to … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Management, webcast
Tagged Bill Hunter, Customer focus, Deming, management, productivity, quality, webcast
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Quality is a Journey to Excellence
I recently uncovered this 2 day management seminar that Bill Hunter (my father) recorded in 1985 in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The embedded clip shows the first section of a the seminar. There is a bit of presentation that is outdated … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Respect, Systems thinking, webcast
Tagged Bill Hunter, Data, Deming, Innovation, management, respect for people, Systems thinking
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Remembering Brian Joiner
I knew Brian Joiner as a child growing up in Madison, Wisconsin. He and my father worked together and our families spent time together. As I grew I interacted with Brian in my professional life and that relationship made my … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management, Statistics, Systems thinking
Tagged blame, Brian Joiner, Data, Deming, John Hunter, Madison, management, Systems thinking
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Expand the View of the System to Find Ways to Improve Results
Here is an example of improvement made possible by expanding the view of the system (and viewing the results from the perspective of the customer instead of just looking at internal process measures). I was working to improve the processing … Continue reading
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Tagged continual improvement, Customer focus, organization as a system, problem solving
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Interview of Bill Hunter: Statistical Variability and Interactions
Interview of Bill Hunter on Statistical Variability and Interactions by Peter Scholtes, 1986: In this interview Bill Hunter describes how results are made up of the impact and interactions of many variables. Many of those variables we don’t know about … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Hunter, experiments, interview, learning, Peter Scholtes, Statistics, variation, webcast
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Profound Podcast with John Hunter, Part Two
John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series, this posts is about part two of the interview (listen to part two of the podcast, John Hunter – Curious Cat). See my post on part one of the interview. John … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Hunter, Deming, interview, John Hunter, Joy in Work, podcast, Psychology, respect for people
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Profound Podcast: John Hunter – Curious Cat
John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series (listen to part one of the podcast, John Hunter – Curious Cat) John Hunter, Hurricane Ridge Trail, Olympic National Park This post provides links to more information on what we discussed … Continue reading
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