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Tag Archives: Economics
The New Age of Robots and What it Means for Jobs
I believe we have reached a turning point in the usefulness and effectiveness of industrial robots. For several decades it was pretty easy to predict wholesale adoption of “the robots will save us” mantra would be followed by failure. I … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management
Tagged Economics, engineering, IT, leadership, management, organization as a system, robots, technology, Toyota
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Burning Toast: American Health System Style
Democrats and Republicans have created a health care system in the USA over the last 40 years that “burns toast” at an alarming rate. As the symptoms of their health care system are displayed they call in people to blame … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care, Management, Public Sector
Tagged blame, Economics, global, government, health care system, organization as a system
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Decades Later The USA Health Care System is Still a Deadly Disease for Our Economy
Decades ago W. Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. One of those was excessive health care costs. Sadly that deadly disease has become much worse in the last several decades. Americans pay 300% more for this prostate … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Economics, Health care
Tagged deadly diseases, Deming, Economics, government, Health care, patent
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Business 901 Podcast: Two New Deadly Diseases for Business
I continue to record podcasts as I promote my new book – Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. In this podcast I discuss the 2 new deadly diseases facing companies. The second part of the Business 901 podcast will be posted … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Economics, Management
Tagged copyright, Deming, Economics, government, John Hunter, management, overpaid executives, patent, podcast
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Using Incentives to Guide Social System Improvements
When confronted with the challenge of managing a social system (or market) I like to find ways to use a few simple rules that will guide the system to find improvements. I favor allowing participants in complex social system to … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Economics, Public Sector, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, Economics, leadership, Systems thinking
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Long Term Thinking with Respect for People
Toyota nearly went bankrupt near 1950 and had to lay off a third of their employees. A huge focus of the Toyota Production System as envisioned by Taiichi Ohno was to secure the long term success of the company. The … Continue reading
Marketplace Looks at the Apple Economy
Marketplace looks at the Apple economy in China [the broken link was removed]. Marketplace is an excellent source of actual journalism; rare in the post Bill Moyers days, sadly. A look inside a Foxconn factory< [the broken link was removed] … Continue reading
USA Spent $2.6 Trillion, $8,402 per person,17.9% of GDP on Medical Expenses in 2010
The federal government financed 29% of total health spending in 2010, a substantial increase from its share of 23% in 2007. Meanwhile, the shares of the total health care bill financed by state and local governments (16%), private businesses (21%), and households (28%) declined during the same time period. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care, Systems thinking
Tagged business, economic data, Economics, economy, Health care, health care system, USA
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Worth Does Not Equal Wealth
Warren Buffet often says he happens to be very good at something that is very financially rewarding – effectively allocating capital. He says this while making the point that plenty of other people are exceptionally gifted in ways that are … Continue reading
Posted in Psychology, Respect
Tagged charity, commentary, control chart, Economics, ethics, Psychology, respect for people
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Out of Touch Executives Damage Companies: Go to the Gemba
When your customer service organization is universally recognized as horrible adding sales requirements to customer service representatives jobs is a really bad practice. Sadly it isn’t at all surprising to learn of management doing just that at our largest companies. … Continue reading →