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Yearly Archives: 2005
Deming Institute Conference
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
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Innovation in Software Development Process
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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Tagged Software Development
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Navy Six Sigma Results
Feds Train to Achieve Six Sigma Results 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 as contracting or information technology … Continue reading
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Lean Government
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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Tagged government, lean management, Management, Public Sector
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The Dramatic Spread of Lean Thinking
Topic: Management Improvement and Economics The Dramatic Spread of Lean Thinking [the broken link was removed] by Jim Womack: Currently we are experiencing an explosion of interest in applying lean thinking to practically every process in every corner of the … Continue reading
Solectron Drives Lean Six Sigma Manufacturing to its Suppliers
Solectron Drives Lean Six Sigma Manufacturing to its Suppliers “Lean has fundamentally changed the manufacturing landscape, led by Toyota,” said Jim Womack. “The future of the EMS industry is found in Kaizen, and Solectron is leading the way. But to … Continue reading
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Statistical Techniques for Quality
A new book, Quality Engineering Applications of Statistical Design, by T. N. Goh, was recently published by Wiley. Links to three previous articles by the author are provided below. Improving on the Six Sigma Paradigm [the broken link was removed] … Continue reading
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Air Products Strips Out Inefficiencies
Air Products Strips Out Inefficiencies by Rick Whiting, Information Week: Air Products standardized on continuous-improvement methodologies based on Six Sigma and lean manufacturing five years ago to boost its operating return on net assets, a metric to measure shareholder return … Continue reading
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Supplier Partnering
Supplier Partnering: It’s better, it’s longer and it’s not what you think, Rey Elbo (Philippines): This is to teach suppliers who could only continue supplying based on their long-term commitment and involvement to the implementation of basic 5S good housekeeping … Continue reading
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Innovation and Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a license that lets the creators of intellectual property clearly define how that property may be used by others. Partially this license is a reaction to the poor way copyright law is being viewed today (see links … Continue reading
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Tagged copyright, deadly diseases, Economics, Innovation
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