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Yearly Archives: 2009
Loan Default Rates Continue to Increase
Chart showing loan default rates for real estate, consumer and agricultural loans for 1998 to 2009 by the Curious Cat Investing Economics Blog, Creative Commons Attribution, data from the Federal Reserve. Default rates on commercial (up another 151 basis points) … Continue reading
Posted in Economics
Tagged economic data, Economics, economy
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The Best Leadership Is Good Management
The Best Leadership Is Good Management [the broken link has been removed] by Henry Mintzberg Let me suggest that you should, because what we’ve been calling a financial crisis is actually one of management. Corporate America has had too much … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Management Articles, Systems thinking
Tagged Books, leadership, management, management experts, Systems thinking
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Management Improvement Carnival #74
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Carnival What Else Can Software Development and Testing Learn from Manufacturing? Don’t Forget Design of Experiments (DoE). by Justin Hunter – “In short, Design of Experiments methods are a proven approach to creating and manage … Continue reading
Workers Allowed Recreational Use of the Internet are More Productive
Freedom to surf: workers more productive if allowed to use the internet for leisure “People who do surf the Internet for fun at work – within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Psychology, Respect
Tagged internet, Psychology, research, respect for people
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Dr. Deming Webcast on the 5 Deadly Diseases
The W. Edwards Deming Institute has posted Dr. Deming’s 1984 video on the 5 deadly diseases of western management. Lack of constancy of purpose Emphasis on short term profits – “creative” accounting, focus on quarterly profits Annual Performance Appraisals – … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #73
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Carnival The Maddening Effectiveness of Root-Cause Analysis – “And I wonder: how often this is a subtle blockage to individuals and teams doing good root cause analysis? How often am I fearful of Really Knowing … Continue reading
Blame the Road – Not the Person
The system is responsible for 90, 92, 94, 97% of problems – W. Edwards Deming. Fix the system, don’t blame the people. When you seek system fixes you approach situations differently than if you search for people to blame. By … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Data, Deming, Economics, Health care, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Deming, Economics, Health care, health care system, Innovation, Systems thinking
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YouTube Uses Multivariate Experiment To Improve Sign-ups 15%
Google does a great job of using statistical and engineering principles to improve. It is amazing how slow we are to adopt new ideas but because we are it provides big advantages to companies like Google that use concepts like … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Data, Design of Experiments, Google, IT, Management, Process improvement, Quality tools, quote, Science, Software Development, Statistics
Tagged curiouscat, Customer focus, Data, Design of Experiments, experiments, Google, Innovation, internet, management, Science, Software Development, Statistics
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Baking in Quality to Software Development
One of the reasons my organizations switched to Ruby on Rails for software development was the great integration with automated testing. We always wanted to have good test coverage on our software applications (which are web applications – some used … Continue reading
Don’t Hide Problems in Computers
Making things visible is a key to effective management. And data in computers can be easy to ignore. Don’t forget to make data visible. Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston recently hosted Hideshi Yokoi, president … Continue reading
