Monthly Archives: May 2005

The Pitfalls of Six Sigma

Posted on May 19, 2005 by John Hunter

The Pitfalls of Six Sigma [the broken link was removed]: Six sigma has strong advocates in the manufacturing world for its ability to help factories get lean, but many companies are feeling that their time and financial investment in six … Continue reading →

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Google: Good Service not Arbitrage

Posted on May 16, 2005 by John Hunter

My comments on: Seth on Arbitrage from John Battelle’s Searchblog Thanks for the great blog. I have to disagree with this post however. First, I think Google chooses not to disclose more to investors mainly because the founders don’t go … Continue reading →

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Thinking Lean

Posted on May 16, 2005 by John Hunter

Thinking Lean [the broken link was removed] by Doug Rich and Dave Bassett, from the May 2005 edition of Manufacturing Engineering. The first thing the kaizen initiative did was to simulate the process layout. This was accomplished through a series … Continue reading →

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Competing on the Basis of Time

Posted on May 16, 2005 by John Hunter

Competing on the Basis of Time: The way to get rid of the big delay at verification is to move testing closer to coding – much closer. In fact, testing should happen immediately upon coding; if possible the test should … Continue reading →

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SEC chief quotes Deming

Posted on May 16, 2005 by John Hunter

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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Search for Improvement With Complex Six Sigma

Posted on May 15, 2005 by John Hunter

Search for Improvement With Complex Six Sigma [the broken link was removed] by Helen D’Antoni: To understand what companies are doing to curtail costs while improving performance, InformationWeek’s sister publication, Optimize magazine, conducted a survey of 156 business-technology executives, asking … Continue reading →

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Hands on Lean Process Improvement

Posted on May 15, 2005 by John Hunter

Shingo’s ‘Know Why’ Hands-On Lean [the broken link was removed] by Bill Waddell. From Superfactory: The essential element here is to be sure to identify every move the part makes from receipt to finish. How you represent it on the … Continue reading →

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New Management Blog Focus

Posted on May 15, 2005 by John Hunter

We will use this blog to note blog post, articles and management resources. With this blog we will focus on serving as a central point to keep up with blogs and online articles relating to Management Improvement: Customer Focus, Process … Continue reading →

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Google and Acquiring Tiny Companies

Posted on May 12, 2005 by John Hunter

I like Google and enjoy reading about the company. Even so I find the number of articles about the minor moves they make strange. At some point this fascination with the minor moves Google makes will stop but for now … Continue reading →

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Management Improvement Articles

Posted on May 10, 2005 by John Hunter

Michael Porter’s Big Ideas by Keith H. Hammonds The world’s most famous business-school professor is fed up with CEOs who claim that the world changes too fast for their companies to have a long-term strategy. If you want to make … Continue reading →

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