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Yearly Archives: 2005
BetterProcess Podcasts and Blog
Edited to correct links – people involved with web content really need to learn that pages must live forever. They broke them again, so I gave up trying to make up for their failure to follow good management processes. BetterProcess … Continue reading
Toyota Engineers a New Plant: the Living Kind
Topic: Management Improvement Toyota Engineers…a Shrub Toyota Motor Corp has developed a derivative of the Cherry Sage shrub that is optimized for absorbing pollutants from the air. It seems Toyota is dominating the management improvement news in the same way … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, quote, Science, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged engineering, green, Innovation, purpose, Science, Toyota
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Glacier National Park Photos
Topic: Travel photos I have posted the first batch of photos from my trip to Glacier National Park this June. See all Glacier National Park photos, I have posted so far. Previous posts show photos from North Cascades National Park, … Continue reading
Posted in curiouscat.com, Fun, Travel photos
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Lean Manufacturing Webinar
Plant Design for Lean Manufacturing – view webinar archive [I removed the broken link] This webinar archive is a series of slides with an audio track (my guess is the slides should be flipped as you listen though this didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in India, IT, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged Customer focus, internet
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Seven Leadership Leverage Points
Seven Leadership Leverage Points [the broken link was removed]: for Organization-Level Improvement in Health Care by James L. Reinertsen, MD; Michael D. Pugh and Maureen Bisognano. If leaders are to bring about system-level performance improvement, they must channel attention to … Continue reading
Posted in Health care, Management, Process improvement
Tagged Health care, Management, Systems thinking
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Science and Engineering
Broad Federal Effort Urgently Needed to Create New, High-Quality Jobs for All Americans in the 21st Century [the broken link was removed], news release on a report from the National Academies Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy – Rising … Continue reading
Shackled by Bad Six Sigma?
Shackled by Bad Six Sigma? by Fred Mullavey, Quality Digest: Technical experts, customers and suppliers–both internal and external–all need to be involved, regardless of their department or discipline. When boundaries aren’t crossed in this manner, problems remain entrenched, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Management
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Malcolm Gladwell – Synchronicity
Topic: Synchronicity – Management Improvement Today I had lunch with a friend of mine, Sean Stickle [the broken link was removed], who continually provides me with interesting ideas to contemplate. One of the things he mentioned during lunch was a … Continue reading
Lean Consumption: the Customer’s Perspective
Lean Consumption: Defining Value from the Customer’s Perspective [the broken link was removed], AutoAsia magazine. The recently released, Lean Solutions, as well as, The Toyota Way Fieldbook, are required reading for anyone serious about applying lean concepts. And truly both … Continue reading
Box on Quality
Dr. George Box is not as well known in the general management community as his ideas merit (in my biased opinion – photo of Bill Hunter and George Box). He is well know in the statistics field as one of … Continue reading