-
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
ASQ Influential Voices 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
-
Tag Archives: Creativity
Lame Move by Google
Google does great things and makes good decisions most often. However a recent move on their part has ended very lamely. As part of what their 10th anniversary celebration they provided a search of the 2001 index (the oldest index … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Google, IT
Tagged Creativity, Customer focus, engineering, Google, internet, usability
Comments Off on Lame Move by Google
Seth Godin: Intern Program and the Internet
Learning from a summer intern program: I was overwhelmed by the quality of what I got back. (The quantity was expected… interesting internships are hard to find). I heard from students on most continents, with a huge variety of backgrounds … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Education, Innovation, IT, Management
Tagged Creativity, management
Comments Off on Seth Godin: Intern Program and the Internet
Don’t Do What Your Users Say
In, Don’t do what your users say, Hanford Lemoore, provides a nice illustration of why customer focus is important but must be done with care. in UI design it’s important to understand that what a user says and what a … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Management, Software Development
Tagged Creativity, Customer focus, Software Development, usability
Comments Off on Don’t Do What Your Users Say
Samuel Adams Acts Like a Good Neighbor
Some people think business is only about making money. I agree with Dr. Deming that the purpose is much larger than that. Even if you take a view similar to mine though, it is not often companies intentionally help those … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Creativity, Management
Tagged Creativity, ethics
Comments Off on Samuel Adams Acts Like a Good Neighbor
Giving Away Your Service for Free on Weekends
Copilot is a cool application that lets you control someone else’s computer. So you can receive technical support remotely. You let someone access your computer and copilot takes care of the sometimes very complex task of linking the two computers … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, IT, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Joel Spolsky, marketing
3 Comments
People are Our Most Important Asset
One of the beliefs I try and get the organizations I work for to adopt is to truly value excellent people. The costs are challenges of hiring great people, to me, makes it critical to do what you can to … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Deming, Management, Performance Appraisal, Psychology, Respect
Tagged coaching, Creativity, curiouscat, John Hunter, Management, managing people, Psychology, respect for people
9 Comments
Innovation Thinking with Christensen
In my opinion Clayton Christensen offers truly insightful ideas on innovation and management. He presents the rare management advice that is not only good but also new – an incredibly rare combination. The current issue of Business Week includes an … Continue reading
Posted in Customer focus, Deming, Innovation, Management, Management Articles
Tagged Creativity, Customer focus, customer service, Deming, Innovation
3 Comments
Joel Barker Podcast
Innovation with Joel Barker at the Cranky Middle Manager Show: Innovation isn’t necessarily all great. Unintended consequences are something to be considered- what Joel calls “Cascade Thinking”. What are the long-term consequences before you invest. “the answer to the problem … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Process improvement, Systems thinking
Comments Off on Joel Barker Podcast
Simple Solutions That Work
Nurse, the maggots [the broken link was removed] Maggots clean wounds 18 times faster than normal treatments, can conquer MRSA and would save the NHS millions. … Recent studies have indicated that maggot therapy can cut treatment duration from 89 … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Health care, Management, Science
Tagged Creativity, Health care
Comments Off on Simple Solutions That Work
New Zealand Creativity
Saving money by thinking creativity and leanly. $10 wok keeps TV station on air [the broken link was removed]: Why pay $20,000 for a commercial link to run your television station when a $10 kitchen wok from the Warehouse is … Continue reading
