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Tag Archives: quote
Information Technology and Management
Dog Eat Dog [the broken link was removed, sadly even MIT can’t manage a website properly and they have broken the link] by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson The CVS experience is a microcosm of a pervasive trend toward using … Continue reading
Posted in IT, Management
Tagged bad usability, curiouscat, IT, John Hunter, management, Process improvement, quote, Software Development
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All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful
“All Models Are Wrong But Some Are Useful” -George Box A great quote. Here is the source: George E.P. Box, Robustness in the strategy of scientific model building, page 202 of Robustness in Statistics, R.L. Launer and G.N. Wilkinson, Editors. … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, quote
Tagged critical thinking, experiments, George Box, prediction, quote, Statistics
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More on Obscene CEO Pay
Study site: CEO-worker pay imbalance grows [the broken link has been removed] includes the graph above. Unfortunately this reverse robin hood (steal from the workers, stock holder, customers…) and give to the CEO tale continues. Hopefully someday soon we can … Continue reading
Posted in Management
Tagged charts, curiouscat, Deming, ethics, executive pay, leadership, management, overpaid executives, quote
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Global Manufacturing Data by Country
I am still looking for a good source for manufacturing data by country and year. Today I found some data from the United Nations Statistics Division. The data for the top five manufacturing economies: China, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom and … Continue reading
Posted in China, Economics, Manufacturing, Popular, quote
Tagged economic data, economy, Manufacturing, Popular, quote
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Change is not Improvement
In response to: Why executives order reorgs [the broken link was removed] We trained hard… but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life … Continue reading
Posted in Deming, Management, quote
Tagged change, continual improvement, critical thinking, Psychology, quote, teams
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Measurement and Data Collection
This is my response to the Deming Electronic Network message (the site is dead, so I removed the link) on measurement. I find it useful to ask what will be done with the results of data collection efforts (in order … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management, quote, Statistics
Tagged continual improvement, curiouscat, Data, Deming, evidence based management, quote, Statistics
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Brain Joiner on Dr. Deming
Topic: Management Improvement The Spring 2005 MAQIN newsletter [link broken, so it was removed] includes an interesting piece on a recent MAQIN event where the life and work of Dr. W. Edwards Deming was celebrated. Dr. Brain Joiner, author of … Continue reading
Dangers of Forgetting the Proxy Nature of Data
We use data to act as a proxy for some results of the system. Often people forget that the end result is not for the number to be improved but for the situation to be improved. We hope, if the measure improves the situation will have improved. But there are many reasons this may not be the case (one number improving at the expense of other parts of the system, the failure of the number to accurately serve as a proxy, distorting numbers, etc.). Continue reading
Posted in Data, Deming, Management, Popular, quote, Systems thinking
Tagged Brian Joiner, curiouscat, Data, Deming, Madison, Management, Popular, quote, Statistics, Systems thinking
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