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Category Archives: Management
Google: Experiment Quickly and Often
Google Thinks Small by Quentin Hardy, Forbes: Brin and Page have created a corporate organism that tackles most big projects in small, tightly focused teams, setting them up in an instant and breaking them down weeks later without remorse. “Their … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Data, Google, Innovation, Management, Process improvement, quote, Software Development
Tagged experiments, Google, iteration
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Carnival of Lean Leadership #3
Carnival of Lean Leadership #3 [the broken link was removed] from Evolving Excellence once again does a great job of collection links to posts worth reading, including: A big welcome to Norman Bodek, who has started his own blog, Kaikaku. … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management, Management Articles
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Be Thankful for Lean Thinking
Topics: Management Improvement and Economics The Dallas Federal Reserve white paper, Supply Chain Management: The Science of Better, Faster, Cheaper [the broken link was removed] by Thomas F. Siems provides a macroeconmic view of what to be thankful due to … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Lean thinking, Management, Six sigma
Tagged Economics, lean management, Lean thinking
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Innovation and Research and Development
Innovation and R&D [the broken link was removed] by John Hagel: From a competitive viewpoint, what matters is the relative rate of productivity improvement. R&D spending and patent filings will matter little if they do not translate into faster productivity … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Innovation, Management
Tagged Innovation, research
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The Economist on Drucker
Trusting the teacher in the grey-flannel suit: He was a harsh critic of the assembly-line system of production that then dominated the manufacturing sector – —partly because assembly lines moved at the speed of the slowest and partly because they … Continue reading
Laurence Haughton on Peter Drucker
Laurence Haughton on Peter Drucker [the broken link was removed]: He criticized organizations who issued directives to “cut 5 or 10 percent from budgets across the board.” … And I’ll bet others can find 100 additional quoted and ignored lessons … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Systems thinking
Tagged change, Drucker, leadership, management
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Superior Customer Experiences
Grow Your Business Through Superior Customer Experiences [the broken link was removed] by D. Randall Brandt and Rodger Stotz: In that study, Oakley found that there is a direct link between employee satisfaction and customer satisfaction, and between customer satisfaction … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Management, Management Articles, Psychology
Tagged Customer focus, organization as a system, Psychology
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Peter Drucker On Leadership
Peter Drucker On Leadership [the broken link was removed] Effective leaders check their performance. They write down, “What do I hope to achieve if I take on this assignment?” They put away their goals for six months and then come … Continue reading
Problems with Lean Manufacturing Awards
Dangers in Lean Manufacturing Awards from the Got Boondogle blog: My simple understanding of lean principles is to focus on the pursuit of company survival for eternity with the elimination of waste while adding value for customers, enhancing quality of … Continue reading
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Managing Innovation
TQM, ISO 9000, Six Sigma: Due Process Management Programs Discourage Innovation? [the broken link was removed – so many organizations show how unable they are to act with a concern for anything but the very short term] “In the appropriate … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Innovation, Management
Tagged Creativity, Innovation, managing people, organization as a system, process thinking
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