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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Pay Attention to the Results that Matter
Play pumps is a great sounding idea. Most people reading this blog have clean tap water a few steps away. Over a billion people today still struggle to get water every day. A common method to get water is using … Continue reading
Leading Improvement and Enjoying the Rewards
The better job you do of managing the easier your job becomes. As a manager your primary responsibility is to improve the system: both the systems within your sphere of control and those outside of it. The more effectively you … Continue reading
Posted in Management, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged coaching, curiouscat, leadership, management, managers, quote, Systems thinking, tips
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #170
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with hand picked recent management blog posts. I also collect management improvement articles for the Curious Cat Management Articles site; an RSS feed of new article additions is … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival
Tagged management, Six sigma
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Introductory Videos on Using Design of Experiments to Improve Results
The video shows Stu Hunter discussing design of experiments in 1966. It might be a bit slow going at first but the full set of videos really does give you a quick overview of the many important aspects of design … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Design of Experiments, Science, Six sigma, Statistics
Tagged Data, Design of Experiments, engineering, experiments, Process improvement, Science, Six sigma, Statistics, variation, webcast
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Moving Beyond Product Quality
This month Paul Borawski (CEO of ASQ) has asked the ASQ Influential Voices to share their thoughts on moving beyond product quality. The opening paragraph of the Quality Council’s perspective is, “For some organizations, ‘quality’ remains a set of tools … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Systems thinking
Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, long term thinking, management, quality, Quality tools, Systems thinking
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #169
The Curious Cat management blog carnival is published 3 times a month with some recent management blog posts. The posts generally focus on the areas I have focused on in the Curious Cat Management Guide since 1996. How Kanban visualisations … Continue reading
Management Improvement Blog Carnival #168
Kevin Meyer is hosting the 168th Management Improvement Carnival. Highlights include: As noted in the last Carnival, several bloggers including yours truly took an appropriately harsh look at an article in Harvard Business Review titled It’s Time to Rethink Continuous … Continue reading
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