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Category Archives: Management
Management Improvement Carnival #59
Nicole Radziwill is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #59 on the Quality and Innovation blog, highlights include: June Holley, talking about self-organizing to achieve systems-level innovation. She notes that because theory is lacking, this process might be protracted, but to … Continue reading
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Out of the Crisis Seminar
I will be co-presenting an Out of the Crisis seminar for the W. Edwards Deming Institute next month, April 20-22, in Philadelphia. Companies around the world are on the brink of destruction. When they get bailed out, or economies improve, … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Deming, Management
Tagged Deming, Education, John Hunter, management, seminar
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Management Blog Posts From December 2005
One of my long time campaigns is to raise awareness of the huge problems caused by massively excessive executive pay. As I said in my December 2005 post: The executive pay excesses are so great now they will force companies … Continue reading
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Jeff Bezos Spends a Week Working in Amazon’s Kentucky Distribution Center
Photo of Jeff Bezos during the 2005 O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference by James Duncan. Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO, is working for a week in Amazon’s Kentucky distribution center. I hope, and based on his past, I believe, that he is … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Creativity, Customer focus, Deming, Lean thinking, Management, Process improvement, Psychology, quote, Respect, Systems thinking
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, gemba, leadership, management, Process improvement
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How to Create a Control Chart for Seasonal or Trending Data
Lynda Finn, President of Statistical Insight, has written an article on how to create a control chart for seasonal or trending data (where there is an underlying structural variation in the data). Essentially you need to account for the structural … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management, Process improvement, Quality tools, Science, Statistics
Tagged Data, Deming, Process improvement, Quality tools, SPC, Statistics, variation
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Knowledge, Imagination, Innovation and Risk
A consumer can seldom say today what new product or new service would be desirable and useful to him three years from now, or a decade from now. New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking … Continue reading
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Management Improvement Carnival #58
Submit suggestions for the management improvement carnival. Visit the Curious Cat Management Library for online management improvement articles. No Blame Thinking by Mike Wroblewski – “It’s not who’s wrong, it’s what’s wrong. It’s not who’s right, it’s what’s right. All … Continue reading
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Management Improvement Carnival #57
Submit suggestions for the management improvement carnival. Also see the management Reddit (what is this Reddit thing?). 20 cynical project management tips by Michael Krigsman – “Projects with realistic budgets and timetables don’t get approved… If you don’t know where … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #56
Submit suggestions for the management improvement carnival. Can you Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe. by Paul Graham – “For the price of a football stadium, any town that was decent to live in could make itself one of the biggest … Continue reading
Harvard’s Masters of the Apocalypse
This article makes some good points, even if it is a bit sensationalist, and intentionally so: Harvard’s masters of the apocalypse by Philip Delves Broughton Business schools have shown a remarkable ability to miss the economic catastrophes unfolding before their … Continue reading →