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Yearly Archives: 2005
Management is Prediction
re: post on prediction [link broken, so removed] on the Deming Electronic Network, Petter Ogland wrote: …that intelligence more or less boils down to updating a predictive model of the world. As far as I can see, this is the … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged Deming, prediction, Process improvement, theory of knowledge
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Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt
Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE. What makes a growth leader today, and how does that differ from the sort of leader who was effective at GE in the past? GE has always been a believer in leadership development. … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management, Process improvement, quote, Six sigma, Systems thinking
Tagged business, Management, Process improvement, Six sigma, system thinking
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Managing Fear
The post, Root Causes of Crunch Mode [the broken link was removed] from the Game Manager blog makes the good point that Fear and anxiety are known to reduce comprehension and learning ability. W. Edwards Deming made “drive out fear” … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Psychology, quote, Respect
Tagged Deming, fear, managing people, Psychology, respect for people
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Could Toyota Fix GM
re: Thomas L. Friedman: Save us, O Toyota based on Thomas L. Friedman article in the Herald Tribune Save us, O Toyota [the broken link was removed] where he states: I have a question: If I am rooting for General … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Management Articles
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The Art of Lean
The Art of Lean [the broken link was removed], by Michael Rovito, The Sunday Challenger, Kentucky The lean style is the process of eliminating all waste in a manufacturing company by streamlining and simplifying shipping. Three key tools, according to … Continue reading
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Millennium Development Goals
re: Six Sigma Training for the G-8? Interestingly Prime minstrel Blair recently showed an understanding of systems thinking (specifically how targets can result in worse performance, when targets result in distortion of the system rather than improvement). In the targets … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care, Management, Six sigma, Systems thinking
Tagged Economics
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Toyota as Homebuilder
Topic: Management Improvement Toyota Home – Applying the Toyota Production System to Home Building (broken link removed) from Evolving Excellence Toyota is all about cars and trucks, right? Not quite. I was just pointed to the Toyota Home [the broken … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Management, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged aim, Innovation, leadership, lean manufacturing, Lean thinking, Toyota
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Top 25: Influential Business Leaders
Top 25: Influential Business Leaders [the broken link was removed] Leaders like Warren Buffett (No. 4), CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Alan Greenspan (No. 9) and business consultant W. Edwards Deming (No. 22) changed the … Continue reading
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BBC Radio Program on Deming
BBC radio has an online podcast of a discussion of W. Edwards Deming‘s ideas. As far as I can tell the program is available for downloading just for the next couple days [link broken, so it was removed. Re-found a … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, UK, webcast
Tagged podcast
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National Parks
I just returned from several weeks visiting National Parks in the Northwest USA: Olympic, Mount Saint Helens, North Cascades, Glacier and Mount Rainer. I will post photos of the parks to the Curious Cat Travels section as I have time. … Continue reading
Posted in curiouscat.com, Travel photos
Tagged John Hunter, travel, Travel photos
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