-
Tags
ASQ Influential Voices blogs Books Career Carnival commentary continual improvement Creativity curiouscat Customer focus customer service Data Deming Economics engineering Google Health care Innovation internet Investing IT John Hunter leadership lean manufacturing Lean thinking management Management managing people Manufacturing organization as a system Popular Process improvement Psychology Public Sector Quality tools quote respect for people Six sigma Software Development Statistics Systems thinking tips Toyota Toyota Production System (TPS) webcast
-
Categories
- Books
- Career
- Carnival
- China
- Competition
- Creativity
- curiouscat.com
- Customer focus
- Data
- Deming
- Design of Experiments
- Economics
- Education
- Fun
- Health care
- India
- Innovation
- Investing
- IT
- Lean thinking
- Management
- Management Articles
- Manufacturing
- Performance Appraisal
- Popular
- Process improvement
- Psychology
- Public Sector
- Quality tools
- quote
- Respect
- Science
- Six sigma
- Software Development
- Statistics
- Systems thinking
- Tags
- Theory of Constraints
- Toyota Production System (TPS)
- Travel photos
- UK
- webcast
Yearly Archives: 2005
Ford and Managing the Supplier Relationship
Topic: Management Improvement There have a been a number of articles (Ford to slash vendors of key parts [the broken link was removed] – Ford Rethinks Supply Strategy and posts (A “Kinder and Gentler” Lean Supply Base? – Ford Adopts … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Manufacturing, Systems thinking
Tagged critical thinking, culture, Deming, Management, organization as a system, problem solving, suppliers
9 Comments
Performance Without Appraisal
In response to the Alternatives to Stack Ranking? post on the popular Mini-Microsoft blog. I’m also taking some time to contemplate on Deming’s points and assess how Microsoft is doing against them. … What I would deeply appreciate is real-world … Continue reading
Business Improvement with Six Sigma
Business Improvement with Six Sigma by Dr Anirban Basu (Express Computer, India IT weekly): The organisation, a CMMI-level 5 company found that although the SLA (Service Level Agreement) with its US client specified that the support time for most critical … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Comments Off on Business Improvement with Six Sigma
Spreading the Lean Gospel
Spreading the Lean Gospel by Rebecca Reid: Bested said lean manufacturing at the Air Fuel Modules Division was a two-fold philosophy. The first aspect was to resolve current manufacturing inefficiencies and to implement lean principles for all new programs coming … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Comments Off on Spreading the Lean Gospel
The Lion of Lean
Great article – The Lion of Lean: An Interview with James Womack [broken link was removed] by Francis J. Quinn, Supply Chain Management Review: Let’s just take one example in the purchasing area. People say, “Yes, we’re going to have … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged lean manufacturing
Comments Off on The Lion of Lean
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
Topic: Management Improvement How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers, Sarah Jane Johnston interview of Steven Spear. It is our conclusion that Toyota has developed a set of principles, Rules-in-Use we’ve called them, that allow organizations to engage in this … Continue reading
SPC: History and Understanding
SPC: From Chaos To Wiping the Floor [broken link removed 🙁 it will be nice when sites start to realize breaking links is not acceptable] by Lynne Hare (who also was the 1997 Hunter Award winner) Shewhart based control chart … Continue reading
Operational Definitions and Data Collection
Americans’ Dirty Secret Revealed by Bjorn Carey See also: Google News on washing hands [broken link was remove] – Soap and Detergent Association press release [another broken link was remove] A study released recently spawned a flurry of articles on … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management
Tagged critical thinking, Data, evidence based management, operational definition, Statistics
1 Comment
Googlebombing
The Google blog has a new post on: Googlebombing ‘failure’ Basically they explain that Google is not making a judgment that the result top results for “failure” represent Google’s opinion of who is a failure. The top result is the … Continue reading
Everybody Wants It, Toyota’s Got It
Everybody Wants It, Toyota’s Got It [oops, pointy haired boss broke link, so I removed it] by Grant Robertson, Globe and Mail (Canada): Despite riding atop the North American auto sector for the past decade, the company’s manufacturing methods are … Continue reading
