Tags
blogs Books Career Carnival commentary continual improvement Creativity curiouscat Customer focus customer service Data Deming Economics engineering Google Health care Innovation internet Investing IT John Hunter leadership lean manufacturing Lean thinking management Management managing people Manufacturing organization as a system Popular Process improvement Psychology Public Sector Quality tools quote respect for people Six sigma Software Development Statistics Systems thinking tips Toyota Toyota Production System (TPS) webcast
Categories
- Books
- Career
- Carnival
- China
- Competition
- Creativity
- curiouscat.com
- Customer focus
- Data
- Deming
- Design of Experiments
- Economics
- Education
- Fun
- Health care
- India
- Innovation
- Investing
- IT
- Lean thinking
- Management
- Management Articles
- Manufacturing
- Performance Appraisal
- Popular
- Process improvement
- Psychology
- Public Sector
- Quality tools
- quote
- Respect
- Science
- Six sigma
- Software Development
- Statistics
- Systems thinking
- Tags
- Theory of Constraints
- Toyota Production System (TPS)
- Travel photos
- UK
- webcast
Archives
- July 2025
- September 2024
- June 2024
- May 2024
- October 2023
- January 2023
- December 2022
- September 2022
- July 2022
- March 2022
- February 2022
- October 2021
- June 2021
- March 2021
- January 2021
- September 2020
- June 2020
- January 2020
- September 2019
- August 2019
- June 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- January 2016
- December 2015
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- May 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
- December 2005
- November 2005
- October 2005
- September 2005
- August 2005
- July 2005
- June 2005
- May 2005
- April 2005
- March 2005
- February 2005
- January 2005
- December 2004
- November 2004
- October 2004
- September 2004
- August 2004
Category Archives: curiouscat.com
Advertise on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog
We are adding the option to place direct ads on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. If you would like to place text ads – or small image ads – related to management topics please contact us. For more information see: placing an ad on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog.
Posted in curiouscat.com
Awesome CatCam
I posted this to our science and engineering blog last week: Awesome Cat Cam. It doesn’t really have anything to do with management: I suppose I could make a case for creativity… but basically it is just really cool (it also illustrates some good product design and testing points). CatCam by Juergen Perthold – this great project involved taking a digital camera and some additional equipment to create a camera that his cat wore around his neck which took pictures … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, curiouscat.com, Fun
Boston Travel Photos
After I presented the Deming Seminar in Boston last year a spent a few extra days in to enjoy the city. See photos from my Boston visit including: Boston Fine Arts Museum, Boston Science Museum and Boston Common. Related: Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky – New York City Photos – Glacier National Park photos
Posted in curiouscat.com, Fun, Travel photos
Deming Institute Seminar
The Deming Institute is sponsoring, How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out of Business [the broken link was removed], 23-25 April, 2007 in Lansing, Michigan. I will be co-presenting the seminar. Twenty-seven faulty management and corporate governance practices create most of the problems in any organization. These practices will be identified, and better practices recommended. It will be shown that as better practices are introduced, quality of products and services increases, costs decline, and you create a globally … Continue reading
Posted in curiouscat.com, Deming, Education, Management
NCAA Basketball Challenge 2007
Once again I have created a group on the ESPN NCAA Basketball Tournament Challenge for curiouscat basketball fans. To participate, go to the curiouscat ESPN group [the broken link was removed] and make your picks. Go Badgers and Go Davidson,
Posted in curiouscat.com, Fun
Curious Cat Management Improvement Web Site
The Curious Cat Management Improvement site includes a wide array of resources for management professionals (and has been growing and improving, I hope, since 1996). Our calendar now includes several interesting opportunities including Performance Measures and Statistics Workshop [the broken link was removed] in Richland, Washington, USA by Stephen Prevette. This workshop looks interesting. We have mentioned the presenter in other posts. Our management improvement job board currently lists jobs including: Six Sigma/Technical Specialist, Supply Chain Project Manager (Google), Quality … Continue reading
Posted in Career, curiouscat.com, Management
5 Things You Might Not Know About Me
I have been tagged by Mark Graban of the lean blog: “Tag” – 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me. I spent a year in Singapore (the small person in the photo is me, the bigger one is Dad on a beach in Malaysia during a visit during our stay in Singapore) and another in Nigeria while I was growing up. Dad, Bill Hunter, was a professor (related to the item above), who co-authored Statistics for Experimenters and applied Deming’s … Continue reading
Posted in curiouscat.com, Fun
Tagged Bill Hunter, George Box, John Hunter, Madison, Statistics for Experimenters
6 Comments
Mason Neck State Park Photos
Photos of Mason Neck State Park, Virginia National park photos: Grand Canyon, Great Falls, Rocky Mountain, Grand Teton…
Posted in curiouscat.com, Travel photos
Tagged Travel photos
Weblog Awards: Best Business Blog Finalist
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog is a 2006 Weblog Awards finalist in the Best Business Blog category. 10 blogs from each category are selected as finalists. Voting opened last week and continues through December 15th. For those visiting from the award site you may want to take a look at our popular posts including: Stop Demotivating Employees – New Rules for Management? No! – Toyota IT Overview – Eliminate Slogans – Quality and Innovation – Manufacturing Jobs data USA … Continue reading
Posted in curiouscat.com
Management Improvement Search Engine
Google has launched a nice new feature that allows users to create customized search results. I have talked about this idea before: Improve Google. Last year I posted about Rollyo, which allowed what Google now does (using Yahoo for the underlying search). I liked Rollyo but the new Google offering is better, so I have switched to using Google. Try our Management Improvement search engine This searches, using Google technology, over 50 management improvement web sites that I have selected. … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, curiouscat.com, Fun, Google, IT, Management
Tagged Google, tips
South Carolina Photos
South Carolina photos from my visit last September to Huntington Beach State Park (photo above), Charleston and Cypress Gardens. More travel photos – travel photo posts.
Posted in curiouscat.com, Travel photos
Tagged photos, Travel photos
Appalachian Trail Photos
I just posted some photos from a couple short hikes on the Appalachian Trail in Pennsylvania during September 2003. More Curious Cat Travels hiking photos: Grand Canyon National Park – Olympic National Park – Bull Run, Virginia – Yellowstone National Park – many more Directory of travel photos by geographic locations
Posted in curiouscat.com, Travel photos
Tagged Travel photos
Curious Cat Articles
We have added several articles to Curious Cat Articles. Recent articles added include several by Katie Gatto: Antibiotic Resistance and You, Cost of Health Care, To go or not to go, when is a virtual internship right for you? and 30 Year Old Intern. Other articles include: Manage what you can’t measure by John Hunter and Invest in New Management Methods by William G. Hunter.
Posted in curiouscat.com, Management
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky
Photos from my visit to the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. The design of the spaces (living and working) and tools was beautiful and, in fact, very much reminiscent of lean thinking ideas like 5s. On this trip, I also visited the Abbey of Gethsemani (where Thomas Merton was a monk) and Louisville.
Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog
We have updated the design of the Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog. Please share your comments on the design: we plan on moving this blog to a similar design.
Posted in curiouscat.com, Science
New York City Photos
These photos are from my New York City trip in 2005, see more photos of: Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met). The Met is an incredible museum with a huge amount of amazing art.
Posted in curiouscat.com, Travel photos