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Tag Archives: Quality tools
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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ER Checklist
The popular ER TV show highlighted the importance of using checklists in surgery yesterday. Such powerful quality tools, like the checklist, are just waiting to be used. But far too many fail to use these simple improvement tools. And in … Continue reading
Posted in Health care, Quality tools, webcast
Tagged Health care, health care system, lean healthcare, Quality tools, webcast
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Jeff Bezos and Root Cause Analysis
Using quality tools really works. Lots of people don’t use them. Improving is often not any more difficult than just applying tools that have been used for decades. Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, Quality tools, Respect
Tagged Amazon, Bezos, management experts, Quality tools
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Checklists Save Lives
Checklists are a simple quality tool that have been used widely for decades. Pilots use them, without fail, to save lives. Some surgeons have been using them and the evidence is mounting that checklists can save many more lives if … Continue reading
Management Improvement Carnival #45
Read the previous management carnivals. Also see the management Reddit for popular new blog posts to include in future carnivals. Hire them, fire them, do what you want with them by Jay Padinjaredath – “A quote from Deming: “In Japan … Continue reading
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Tagged Carnival, extrinsic motivation, management, Process improvement, Quality tools
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The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success
An interesting article in this month’s Harvard Business Review looks at the seeming contradictions at Toyota – The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success by Hirotaka Takeuchi, Emi Osono, and Norihiko Shimizu Many of Toyota’s goals are purposely vague, allowing employees … Continue reading
Posted in Management, Process improvement, Systems thinking, Toyota Production System (TPS)
Tagged Process improvement, Quality tools, Toyota
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Improvement Tools and Improving Management
Tools are just tools [the broken link has been removed] by Lee Fried We have begun to shift away from a tool driven approach to one more centered on improving our management systems. This makes the work far more difficult, … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Education, Lean thinking, Management, Quality tools, Systems thinking
Tagged management tools, Quality tools
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From Lean Tools to Lean Management
From lean tools to lean management [the broken link was removed] by Jim Womack: The attraction of tools is that they can be employed at many points within an organization, often by staff improvement teams or external consultants. Even better, … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management, Quality tools
Tagged lean management, Lean thinking, Quality tools, Womack
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Process Improvement and Innovation
Every so often an article appears discussing the need to change focus from process improvement to innovation (and recently they are followed with quite a bit of blog talk). I disagree on several grounds. First you have needed to focus … Continue reading
Six Sigma v. Common Sense
Response to LinkedIn question [the broken link was removed]: “Whether Six Sigma as a quality tool really delivers the benefits ? How does it makes difference from a common sense approach ? (Where the process wastes and the required solution … Continue reading →