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Category Archives: Data
Remembering Brian Joiner
I knew Brian Joiner as a child growing up in Madison, Wisconsin. He and my father worked together and our families spent time together. As I grew I interacted with Brian in my professional life and that relationship made my … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management, Statistics, Systems thinking
Tagged blame, Brian Joiner, Data, Deming, John Hunter, Madison, management, Systems thinking
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Interview of Bill Hunter: Statistical Variability and Interactions
Interview of Bill Hunter on Statistical Variability and Interactions by Peter Scholtes, 1986: In this interview Bill Hunter describes how results are made up of the impact and interactions of many variables. Many of those variables we don’t know about … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management, Statistics, webcast
Tagged Bill Hunter, experiments, interview, learning, Peter Scholtes, Statistics, variation, webcast
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Interview of Bill Hunter, Brian Joiner and Peter Scholtes on Better Management Practices
Interview with Bill Hunter, Brian Joiner and Peter Scholtes (listen to the interview) on a Public Affair, National Public Radio about improving management practices in the USA. The interview is over 30 years old now but the better management ideas … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management, Process improvement, Public Sector, Statistics, Systems thinking
Tagged application, Bill Hunter, Brian Joiner, Data, management, Peter Scholtes, podcast, problem solving, Psychology, Public Sector, respect for people, Statistics
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Factfulness – The Importance of Critical Thinking
Factfulness by Hans Roling (of TED talks and Gapminder charts fame) is an exceptionally good book. It provides great insight into how to think more effectively and how to understand the reality of the world we live in (versus the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Data, Systems thinking
Tagged critical thinking, curiouscat, Data, long term thinking, Psychology, Systems thinking
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My Willing Worker Award
Here is an image of the employee of the quarter award I received from Bill Scherkenbach. I have received other awards and I don’t think those awards were given with any more understanding of the contributions to results due to … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Systems thinking
Tagged awards, blame, Data, Performance Appraisal, Psychology
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Poorly Stratified Data Leads to Mistakes in Analysis
Stratification can help provide insight into the nature of the real world situation. Determining what is a sensible conclusion to draw and what is not is aided by an understanding of statistics and expert knowledge of the situation the data is drawn from. Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management, Statistics, Systems thinking
Tagged critical thinking, curiouscat, Data, evidence based management, management, Statistics
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Don’t Expect Short Quotes to Tell the Whole Story
When people try to use a short quote as an accurate encapsulation of a management concept they will often be disappointed. It is obvious that Dr. Deming believed that organizations failed to use data effectively to improve. He proposed that … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management, quote, Statistics, Systems thinking
Tagged Data, Deming, quote, Statistics, Systems thinking, variation
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The Importance of Critical Thinking and Challenging Assumptions
There are many factors that are important to effectively practice the management improvement ideas that I have discussed in this blog for over a decade. One of the most important is a culture that encourages critical thinking as well as … Continue reading
Technological Innovation and Management
Technological innovation brings great opportunity for improving results and our quality of life. But transforming potential benefits into real results comes with many challenges. ASQ has asked their Influential Voices to explore the idea of the fourth industrial revolution: “this … Continue reading
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Tagged ASQ Influential Voices, Data, Innovation, organization as a system, Systems thinking, technology
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All Data is Wrong, Some is Useful
From my first blog post on this blog – Dangers of Forgetting the Proxy Nature of Data we often fail to explore whether changes in the numbers (which we call results) are representative of the “true results” of the system … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management
Tagged curiouscat, Data, ethics, green, leadership, Statistics
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