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Category Archives: Education
Learning, Systems and Improvement
A Major Mistake That Managers Make by Russell L. Ackoff Once again Ackoff provides great ideas: Page 4 and 5 explore the method to effectively learn from decisions the organization makes. The idea seem simple but they are powerful. Preparing … Continue reading
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Ackoff Podcast
I found this great podcast via the post – School Architecture: Doing the Wrong Thing Right. As usually Ackoff provides great ideas, in an interesting and entertaining manner. This talk focuses on learning (and education and teaching) and doing the … Continue reading
W. Edwards Deming Outstanding Training Award
W. Edwards Deming Outstanding Training Award [the broken link was removed] from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Graduate School. The award honors W. Edwards Deming for his 22-year association with the Graduate School, USDA as a mathematics and … Continue reading
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Engineering Education: China, India and the USA
I just added a post, USA Under-counting Engineering Graduates, to our Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog on a new report from Duke concerning data on engineering degrees from China, India and the USA: Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate. I … Continue reading
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Gary Hamel’s Idea Hatchery
Gary Hamel’s Idea Hatchery [the broken link was removed] by Whitney Sparks: Q: So how do you hope to change the standard approach to management? A: Sometimes innovation is about creating a whole new class structure. Hierarchies are not very … Continue reading
2005 Baldrige Award
The 2005 Baldrige Award recipients are: Sunny Fresh Foods, Inc., Monticello, Minn. (manufacturing) [the broken link was removed] Product rejections for SFF at all four plants have continuously declined. Reducing rework can provide significant productivity improvements: SFF’s rework reduction percentage … Continue reading
Lean Education Academic Network
Lean Education Academic Network [the broken link was removed], is a group of academic and industry people interested in bringing lean content into academic programs. The Leaneduc email list will send you announcements from the network. From Exclusive Q&A with … Continue reading
Education Improvement
Pattillo Tutors Granville School on Teaching Method [unfortunately the newspaper broke the link so I removed it] by Natalie Jordan, Rocky Mount Telegram (North Carolina, USA): The model uses a PDSA – plan, do, study and act – component. “Plan” … Continue reading
