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Tag Archives: system thinking
Designing In Errors
TiVo’s “self-destruct button” destructs [the broken link was removed] In so doing, they’ve created a bunch of potential failures in which the user is locked out of her own equipment. It’s like those movies where an accident or a bad … Continue reading
Systemic Thinking
Systemic Thinking by Gary Bartlett provides a nice introduction to systemic thinking compared to analysis. Analysis is very useful however, the strong tendency to focus on only breaking apart systems to analyze components does result in missing insight into improvement … Continue reading
Lean National Health System
A presentation today, Lean Thinking For the NHS, by Dan Jones is getting press coverage in England.NHS should embrace lean times: The improvements came through examining the patient’s whole experience, and removing the sometimes-fatal delays in getting them into the … Continue reading
Posted in Health care, Lean thinking, Management, Management Articles, Systems thinking, UK
Tagged Health care, Lean thinking, system thinking, UK
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Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt
Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt, CEO, GE. What makes a growth leader today, and how does that differ from the sort of leader who was effective at GE in the past? GE has always been a believer in leadership development. … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Management, Process improvement, quote, Six sigma, Systems thinking
Tagged business, Management, Process improvement, Six sigma, system thinking
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SEC chief quotes Deming
Security and Exchange Chairman William H. Donaldson Speaks At Chartered Financial Analysts Institute Annual Conference [broken link removed]: This approach will, ultimately, better serve investors, and it will also gradually temper the pressures on some corporate executives to fudge the … Continue reading
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