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Yearly Archives: 2006
No Customer Focus
John Battelle writes the excellent searchblog. A recent post, Rant: The Comcast HD DVR Is Simply, Terribly Awful, provides another example of a company lacking customer focus. See the comments for even more confirmation of the lack of customer focus. … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Fun, IT, Management
Tagged bad customer service, culture, design, usability
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What is Wrong with MBA’s
Two interesting posts from Compound Thinking: What is Management? [the broken link was removed – this is one of many examples of a good blog’s domain lapsing and being bought by someone to promote unrelated items.]: Management is helping others … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Education, Management
Tagged Education, Management, organization as a system, Performance Appraisal
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Information Quality
The 14 Points of Information Quality Transformation [the broken link was removed] by Larry English, looks at Deming’s 14 obligations of management form information quality perspective: Drive out fear of data uncertainty or data errors. Create a nonblame, nonjudgmental environment. … Continue reading
Terex Handlers: Lean Manufacturing
Here is a short article about a company implementing lean: Terex Handlers implementing lean manufacturing [the broken link was removed]. The article doesn’t really shed any new insight but it is another good example of success (which are nice) and … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management Articles
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Simple Cell Phone
Awhile back we posted about the lack of simple phones now Motorola is looking at this market. See: Motorola’s Dumb Phone: Looking for more customers, the company did extensive market research in poor countries. The result: the company’s slimmest phone … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Management
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Lean Manufacturing Web Video
Continuous Improvement Video from Genie Industries [the broken link was removed], is an interesting lean manufacturing video (via the great Panta Rei blog): The video also shows examples of their moving line, andon and pull chord, visual production status boards, … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Quality tools, webcast
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Deming in Japan
Great article by John Dowd [the broken link was removed], How the Japanese learned to compete: This is a key lesson because with attention to quality, the company begins a journey on a “virtuous circle” of simultaneously improving quality and … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Management Articles
Tagged Deming, Japan, management history
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Management Improvement Search Engine
Google has launched a nice new feature that allows users to create customized search results. I have talked about this idea before: Improve Google. Last year I posted about Rollyo, which allowed what Google now does (using Yahoo for the … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, curiouscat.com, Fun, Google, IT, Management
Tagged Google, tips
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Lessons from Toyota’s IT Strategy
Another interesting post from Panta Rei: Lessons from Toyota’s IT Strategy [the broken link was removed]: In order to use IT effectively as a tool, we think that it is important for the top management to not see IT as … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Management, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged strategy, technology, Toyota
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Deming Prize 2006
The Union of Japanese Scientists have announced the 2006 Deming Application Prize [the broken link was removed] winners: Nishizawa Electric Meters Manufacturing Co., Limited (Japan) Sanden International PTE Limited (Singapore) Sanden International, Inc. (USA) Also announced: The Deming Prize for … Continue reading
