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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Change Health Care
How Toyota Can Save Your Life…at the hospital by Mark Graban, another great manifesto from Change This:
Posted in Health care, Lean thinking
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Motivating Employees
No Matter How Badly You Want It: “When it seems easy, it’s like they already wanted to do it in the first place.” Martin paused. “It seems impossible when they didn’t ever want to do it. So, it doesn’t seem … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged Deming, managing people, motivation
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Total Quality Software Development
Total Quality Service podcast by Michael Tiemann, Redhat Software. Do we offshore the problem to somebody else, you know get more bad software cheaper? Or do we fix the problem? I think we fix the problem. Now, in going to … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, IT, Software Development, Systems thinking, webcast
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Website Data
The Alexa toolbar, from amazon.com (and by the guy, Brewster Kahle, who created the internet archive too, by the way) is one way to get some idea of how popular a web site is (the toolbar shows the web site … Continue reading
All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful
“All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful” -George Box A great quote. Here is the source: George E.P. Box, Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building, page 202 of Robustness in Statistics, R.L. Launer and G.N. Wilkinson, Editors. … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, quote
Tagged critical thinking, experiments, George Box, prediction, quote, Statistics
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Management Improvement Carnival #6
Management Improvement ideas from around the web: Lean Q&A by Jamie Flinchbaugh – “There is no recipe, no three-ring binder approach to lean. If someone brings you an approach and says “here is the best way to implement lean,” please, … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Management
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Write it Down
Why Write it down? The longer I pursue Lean, the more I am amazed with its fundamentals. I may write more about this in the near future. Like the emphasis to write things down. In meetings, writing down decisions (what … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged Ackoff, communication, curiouscat, Process improvement, tips
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Evolving Excellence – The Book
Evolving Excellence – the book takes posts from the excellent Evolving Excellence blog by Keven Meyer and William Waddell. Those familiar with their work know that the authors provide great insight and take strong positions – they are not timid. … Continue reading
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