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Monthly Archives: May 2005
Curious Cat Blogs
Topic: Management Improvement We have started a new blog, Curious Cat Management Articles, specifically to highlight management improvement articles on topics like: Lean Manufacturing, Deming, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, Innovation, Customer Focus, SPC and System Thinking. We are still working … Continue reading
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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 that says that Only 13 percent of employees and managers and 6 percent of CEOs think their organization’s performance appraisal is useful. … Continue reading
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The Pitfalls of Six Sigma
The Pitfalls of Six Sigma: 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 sigma has been wasted. Problems … Continue reading
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Google: Good Service not Arbitrage
RE: Seth on Arbitrage from John Battelle’s Searchblog Thanks for the great blog. I have to disagree with this post however. First, I think Google chooses not to disclose more to investors mainly because the founders don’t go along with … Continue reading
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Thinking Lean
Thinking Lean 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 of steps ranging from AutoCAD … Continue reading
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Competing on the Basis of Time
Competing on the Basis of Time: The way to get rid of the big delay at verification is to move testing closer to coding – much closer. In fact, testing should happen immediately upon coding; if possible the test should … Continue reading
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SEC chief quotes Deming
Security and Exchange Chairman William H. Donaldson Speaks At Chartered Financial Analysts Institute Annual Conference [broken link removed]: This approach will, ultimately, better serve investors, and it will also gradually temper the pressures on some corporate executives to fudge the … Continue reading
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Search for Improvement With Complex Six Sigma
Search for Improvement With Complex Six Sigma 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 them about their company’s business-process … Continue reading
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Six Sigma Propelling HSBC
Six Sigma Propelling HSBC: HSBC Bank Malaysia Bhd, one of the leading lenders in Malaysia, aims to further propel its consumer banking business by intensifying the usage of the Six Sigma methodology.
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Hands on Lean Process Improvement
Shingo’s ‘Know Why’ Hands-On Lean 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 flow chart is not important, … Continue reading
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