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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Toyota IT for Kaizen
How Toyota Uses Information Technology (IT) for Kaizen [the broken link was removed] by Jon Miller. He quotes Toyota’s CIO from the Japanese article: Part of my job as CIO is to take on these company-wide issues and use this … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Management, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged IT, Management, Quality tools, Toyota
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Hospitals, Heal Thyselves
Hospitals, Heal Thyselves by Cal Thomas: This proven system does not require more staff or expensive consultants and it certainly does not need another bureaucratic, costly and inefficient government agency, which can only make things worse. Improvements can be made, … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Health care, Lean thinking, Management, Systems thinking
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More on Obscene CEO Pay
Study site: CEO-worker pay imbalance grows [the broken link has been removed] includes the graph above. Unfortunately this reverse robin hood (steal from the workers, stock holder, customers…) and give to the CEO tale continues. Hopefully someday soon we can … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged charts, curiouscat, Deming, ethics, executive pay, leadership, management, overpaid executives, quote
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Edward Tufte’s new book: Beautiful Evidence
Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte is now available. Beautiful is the right word. Tufte’s books are an example of what can be created when someone truly loves what they do and takes pride in every detail of their work. His books are excellent. Continue reading
Posted in Books, Data, Management
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Dr. Shigeo Shingo
Norman Bodek responds to, Shigeo Shingo’s Influence on TPS by Art Smalley, with: Dr. Shigeo Shingo – The Greatest Manufacturing Consultant. As the title shows this article focuses on the contributions of Dr. Shingo. I still find the original article … Continue reading
Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog
We have updated the design of the Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog. Please share your comments on the design: we plan on moving this blog to a similar design.
Posted in curiouscat.com, Science
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Health Care Crisis
Probe finds nation’s emergency care system at ‘breaking point’ (the San Jose Mercury News broke the link so I removed it – poor usabilty on their part) by Lauran Neegaard: It’s a sobering symptom of how the nation’s emergency-care system … Continue reading
Posted in Health care, Lean thinking, Management, Public Sector, Systems thinking
Tagged Economics, Health care, health care system
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Thinking About the Future
In Thinking About the Future Russ Ackoff does his usual great job of providing insightful ideas while not being afraid to be controversial. In this speech Dr. Ackoff discusses his thoughts on the issue of global development at the occasion … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Management, Systems thinking
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Lean National Health System
A presentation today, Lean Thinking For the NHS, by Dan Jones is getting press coverage in England.NHS should embrace lean times: The improvements came through examining the patient’s whole experience, and removing the sometimes-fatal delays in getting them into the … Continue reading
Posted in Health care, Lean thinking, Management, Management Articles, Systems thinking, UK
Tagged Health care, Lean thinking, system thinking, UK
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Brainstorming Under Attack
Brainstorming under attack: 8 errors in the WSJ [the broken link was removed]. The WSJ has their content behind a wall [the broken link was removed] so their content is not part of the web and so I have not … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management, Quality tools
Tagged communication, Creativity, managing people, problem solving, Quality tools
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