Category Archives: Carnival

Management Improvement Carnival #83

Jon Miller is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #83 on the Gemba Panta Rei blog, highlights include: How to Explain “How To” I am constantly referring people to Bryan Lund‘s valuable TWI Blog wherein one can find public domain Training … Continue reading

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Management Blog Posts From March 2006

Photo of sunset in Mount Rainier National Park by John Hunter Cease Mass Inspection for Quality – “Deming point 3 is ‘Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality.’ Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #82

Mike Wroblewski is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #82 on the Got Boondoggle? blog, highlights include: A Problems First Culture by Mark Rosenthal “‘Problems first’ is one of the mantras used by Phil Jenkinson, the CEO character in The Lean … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #81

Womack & Jones at the Gemba: “Spread” and Innovation by Mark Graban – “Jim says, basically, that you’re always going to be innovating and if the next area thinks they can just copy, then they’re missing the point.” The Curious … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #80

Jamie Flinchbaugh is hosting Management Improvement Carnival #80 on his new blog, highlights include: A New Strategy for the Kaizen Blitz from Lean Homebuilding – on PDCA, kaizen, with lots of good comments To Err is Human…To Error Proof is … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #79

Mark Graban is hosting Management Improvement Carnival #79 on the lean blog, highlights include: A Natural Match (Deborah Dolezal, Lean Healthcare Grand Rounds): “As a healthcare worker and an implementer of lean, I am often struck by the similarity of … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #78

The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival provides links to recent blog posts for those interesting in improving management of organizations. Journey from Agile To Lean by Kenji Hiranabe – “Agile is a connector between business and software engineering…. From the … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #77

The Curious Cat Management Improvement Carnival provide links to recent blog posts for those interesting in improving management of organizations. A lesson in strategy, taught by a Cat by Mark Hurst – “Without direction, we’re presenting our flipcharts and our … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #76

Kevin Meyer is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #76 on the Evolving Excellence blog, highlights include: The World Used to be Flat (Indexed): Question what is accepted as fact, ubiquitous in effect, and practiced by people. Traditional accounting…? The Retrospective … Continue reading

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Management Improvement Carnival #75

Agile Lessons from a Management Guru by Ahmed Yousuf – “Agile methodologies have a fundamentally different approach to quality – an approach that is inherent in this teaching from Deming. Quality cannot be achieved by testers inspecting work done by … Continue reading

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