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Monthly Archives: August 2012
New Deadly Diseases
Management and the economy keep evolving. Many good things happen. In the last decade the best things are probably the increased deep adoption of lean thinking in many organizations and the adoption of lean and Deming methods in software development … Continue reading
Ackoff: Corporations Are Not Led By Those Seeking to Maximize Shareholder Value
If I had to limit myself to a handful of management experts, Russel Ackoff would definitely be in that group. Thankfully there is no such limit. Ackoff once again provides great insight, with great wit, in the above clip. A … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Management, Systems thinking, webcast
Tagged Ackoff, aim, culture, evidence based management, leadership, management webcast, purpose, quote, theory of knowledge
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Creating a Quality Culture
This month Paul Borawski (CEO of ASQ) has asked the ASQ Influential Voices to share their thoughts on the Feelings and Quality Culture. I don’t think creating a culture of continual management improvement is complex but it takes more commitment … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged culture, long term thinking, managing people, respect for people, Systems thinking
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #176
Karl Scotland is hosting the 176th Management Improvement Carnival. Highlights include: One set of posts that caught my eye was on Agile Fluency. The original post by James Shore and Diana Larsen proposes “a model of Agile fluency that will … Continue reading
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Leading Manufacturing Countries from 2000 to 2010: China, USA…
Over the years I have been posting data on the manufacturing output of leading countries. In 2010 China finally overtook the USA to becoming the leading manufacturer (long after you would have thought listening to many news sources and political … Continue reading
Posted in China, Manufacturing
Tagged China, curiouscat, economic data, economy, Germany, India, Japan, Manufacturing, UK, USA
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Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Carnival #175
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Carnival has been published since 2006. We find great management blog posts and share them with you 3 times a month. We hope you find these post interesting and find some new blogs to … Continue reading
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Customer Focus by Everyone
There are many critical elements to a management system. One that is fundamental, yet still poorly executed far too often, is creating a system where all staff can focus on enhancing value to the customer every day. If your enterprise … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged build capacity, Customer focus, customer service, Deming, management, Systems thinking
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My New Book: Management Matters
I have a new book in progress: Management Matters. It is now available in “pre-release format” via leanpub. The idea I am experimenting with (supported by leanpub) is pre-publishing the book online. The ebook is available for purchase now, and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, curiouscat.com, Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Process improvement, Psychology, Quality tools, quote, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Books, curiouscat, Customer focus, Data, Deming, John Hunter, Lean thinking, management, respect for people, Six sigma, Systems thinking
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Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Carnival #174
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, Management
Tagged Carnival, Lean thinking, management, photos
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