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Category Archives: Management
Using Design of Experiments as a Process Road Map
Using Design of Experiments as a Process Road Map by Davis Balestracci: The current design of experiments (DOE) renaissance seems to favor factorial designs and/or orthogonal arrays as a panacea. In my 25 years as a statistician, my clients have … Continue reading
Posted in Design of Experiments, Management, Process improvement, Statistics
Tagged Design of Experiments
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Stop Demotivating Employees
Why Your Employees Are Losing Motivation [broken link removed – Harvard is extremely bad about breaking links, which is an indication of how little they think about anything but the short term] by David Sirota, Louis A. Mischkind, and Michael … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Management Articles, Popular, Psychology
Tagged management, managing people, Psychology, respect for people, short term thinking
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Toyota in the US Economy
Some figures on Toyota’s economic impact in the USA. Toyota North American vehicle manufacturing totals: From Toyota’s web site: Toyota Manufacturing in the USA [the broken link was removed]: by 2008, Toyota will have the annual capacity to build 1.81 … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Manufacturing, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged economic data, Toyota
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Quality and Costs
Finding the balance between quality and cost [the broken link was removed] by Thomas Nolan Maureen Bisognano One of the steps toward a system for improving value is recognizing that waste removal is an essential component of that system, not … Continue reading
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Dell, Reddit and Customer Focus
Reddit is a site for what’s new and popular on the web (votes by the user community rate web links). That user community is highly skewed toward software engineers who are a bit irreverent (as some of the language in … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, IT, Management
Tagged bad customer service, Customer focus, Systems thinking
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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
Posted in Education, Lean thinking, Management
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Lean Material Handling
Don’t Ignore your Water Spider a great post by Mike Wroblewski: The second night was little better and I quickly evaluated the improvements from the night before. Later that second night, I made more improvements. Each day, I continued the … Continue reading
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Leading Lean: Missed Opportunity
Leading Lean: Missed Opportunity [the broken link was removed] by Jamie Flinchbaugh: Three elements are needed to gain the benefits from using pull production to drive problems out into the open. First, you need strong problem-solving skills. Bringing a problem … Continue reading
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Tagged Lean thinking, organization as a system, problem solving
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PBS Documentary: Improving Hospitals
Clare Crawford-Mason and Llyod Dobyns have teamed up on a new documentary. Previously they created If Japan Can-Why Can’t We? and the Deming Library Tapes. Good News – How Hospitals Heal Themselves (broken link was removed) A One-Hour Documentary Airing … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Health care, Lean thinking, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged deadly diseases, Health care
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Toyota Again Get Positive Press
Toyota Eyes Chance to Pass by Anthony Faiola, Washington Post: The mainstream press continues to note the success of Toyota. Toyota has been toying with hybrid engines for the past 20 years. But the company began to seriously pursue a … Continue reading
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