Please submit your favorite management posts to the carnival. Read the previous management carnivals.
- How not to improve a process – “It is not enough to think you know what’s right for the process, if you don’t understand how the process works, then don’t play with it”
- A tour of a lean-inspired clinical laboratory by Ted Eytan – “In the design, which involved a labor-management partnership, the team elected to replace a million-dollar conveyer belt system with a $200 dollar cart to move specimens to the work area.”
- Should you hire specific experience, or the ability to learn and lead? by Kent Blumberg – “is the hiring process about what’s easy, or about making a great decision for the long term? I hope it’s about a great decision.”
- Toyota’s Value Innovation: The Art of Tension by Matthew May – “But the implied question for all of us to consider in light of the above is this: are resource constraints enabling or preventing innovation?”
- One Piece Flow versus Mass Production by Ron Pereira – webcast of the traditional “mass production” manufacturing technique square off against the lean “one piece flow” methodology
- Deming on leadership by Shaun Sayers – “We could therefore conclude that a system that is pock marked with such “work-arounds” is likely to be suffering from poor leadership. A tell tale symptom”
- Toyota’s Growth, Globalization, and Training by Mark Graban – “Toyota isn’t stuck in their own past, why should we be?”