Monthly Archives: October 2005

Management Improvement in Healthcare

Posted on October 9, 2005 by John Hunter

Thinking out-of-the-box Helps Alexandra Hospital Reduce Patient Waiting Time, Singapore News, via Panta Rei. Another example of lean principles being used by government: When looking for solutions to cut patients’ waiting time, Alexandra Hospital took an out-of-the-box approach and looked … Continue reading →

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Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations

Posted on October 8, 2005 by John Hunter

Forward [the broken link was removed] (by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister) to Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations: measurement is almost always part of an effort to achieve some goal. You can’t always measure all aspects of progress against … Continue reading →

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More Lean Government

Posted on October 7, 2005 by John Hunter

Lean thinking ideas are about eliminating waste. Some who believe the government should just be smaller, talk about a lean government, but that is not the same thing as a government that applies the concepts of lean thinking. Toyota is … Continue reading →

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Peter F. Drucker on a Functioning Society

Posted on October 6, 2005 by John Hunter

Peter F. Drucker on a Functioning Society by Joseph A. Maciariello: Drucker’s concern that the institutions of society function for the common good has led him to be critical of business practice from time to time and to take on … Continue reading →

Posted in Management Articles

The Toyota Way Fieldbook

Posted on October 6, 2005 by John Hunter

Topic: Management Improvement The Toyota Way Fieldbook – a Practical Guide to implementing Toyota’s 4Ps by Jeffrey Liker has just been released. For this book he is joined by David Meier, and they delve into applying the concepts from his … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Lean thinking, Management, Toyota Production System (TPS)

Toyota and the Art of Continuous Improvement

Posted on October 6, 2005 by John Hunter

Oh, What A Company! [the broken link was removed] by by Gary S. Vasilash TPS is not for those who are looking for the fast solution. While implementing any single element of TPS will undoubtedly bring some rather startling results … Continue reading →

Posted in Management Articles, Toyota Production System (TPS)

Deming Institute Conference

Posted on October 5, 2005 by John Hunter

Topic: Management Improvement For those who might be interested in meeting in person, I will be in Indiana for the Deming Institute Conference [the broken link was removed] and the seminar, How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out … Continue reading →

Posted in Management

Innovation in Software Development Process

Posted on October 5, 2005 by John Hunter

Innovation in MSF v4.0 [the broken link was removed] The Work Remaining report uses a cumulative flow chart developed for Lean Manufacturing. Work-in-progress and queuing can be monitored with this report in order to identify bottlenecks and address issues which … Continue reading →

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Navy Six Sigma Results

Posted on October 4, 2005 by John Hunter

Feds Train to Achieve Six Sigma Results [the broken link was removed] by Sara Michael, Federal Computer Week: For Navsea, responsible for maintaining naval ships and weapons, the Six Sigma-inspired approach encourages managers to closely examine a business operation, such … Continue reading →

Posted in Management Articles

Lean Government

Posted on October 4, 2005 by John Hunter

Making Government Work [the broken link was removed] by Tom Vilsack via Panta Rei [the broken link was removed]: We redesigned the child welfare system to place greater focus on the complex and hard cases that people live out every … Continue reading →

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