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Category Archives: webcast
Six Sigma and Innovation
Peter Pande adds his thoughts on how six sigma and innovation can work together. In his podcast, Innovation vs. Efficiency, he makes the argument that innovation and efficiency can work together. As I have stated many times, while bad six … Continue reading
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Great Marissa Mayer Webcast on Google Innovation
Marissa Mayer speech at Stanford on innovation at Google (23 minutes, 26 minutes question and answers). She leads the product management efforts on Google’s search products- web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Innovation, Management, Popular, quote, Software Development, webcast
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Lean Dentist Podcast
This podcast by Mark Graban with Dr. Sami Bahri, “The World’s First Lean Dentist” is well worth listening to. It offers a wonderful example of how to apply lean ideas (I really appreciate how obvious the focus on learning and … Continue reading
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Hiring: Silicon Valley Style
Interviews on how to hire in Silicon Valley. I especially like Guy Kawasaki’s comment – “the key to getting great people to work for you is to have a great product. That is why Google does so well. That is … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Google, IT, Management, Software Development, Systems thinking, webcast
Tagged Career, hiring, IT
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TVS Group Director on India – Manufacturing, Economy…
TVS group companies, based in India, have been awarded 5 Deming Prizes. He discusses Deming and quality a bit. He also discusses their experiences in manufacturing in China and the strengths they have found in each country. And he discusses the Indian economy and manufacturing.
Related: Hopeful About India’s Manufacturing Sector – Toyota Chairman Comments on India and Thailand Continue reading
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Lean Health Care Interview
Nice short interview of Professor of Emergency Medicine, Matthew Cooke, on lean health care in the UK (via the lean blog). He mentions that applying lean thinking to health care gets rid of wasted time for patient, eliminates errors (by … Continue reading
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Data Visualization Example
[I replaced the embedded video, since Google broke the original link with the way they shut down Google Video after buying YouTube] In Myths About the Developing World, Hans Rosling shows some great graphics to display data on health care … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Economics, Health care, Management, webcast
Tagged Data, Economics, health care system, visual communication
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Eric Schmidt Podcast – Google Innovation and Entrepreneurship
iinnovate podcast interview with Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google. “Normal sales quotas” – oops maybe Google can learn from others in this area. I found it interesting that Eric Schmidt teaches at Standford even while being the CEO of … Continue reading
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Errors in Thinking
The Doctor’s In, But Is He Listening?, text and podcast from NPR: Jerome Groopman (photo) is a doctor who discovered that he needed a doctor. When his hand was hurt, he went to six prominent surgeons and got four different … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, Health care, theory of knowledge
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Total Quality Software Development
Total Quality Service podcast by Michael Tiemann, Redhat Software. Do we offshore the problem to somebody else, you know get more bad software cheaper? Or do we fix the problem? I think we fix the problem. Now, in going to … Continue reading
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