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Monthly Archives: June 2008
Mississippi Plans Manufacturing Management Center
Ole Miss plans manufacturing center Ole Miss plans to build a center to teach manufacturing management skills. Gov. Haley Barbour, Ole Miss officials and Toyota executives announced the $22 million Center for Manufacturing Excellence on Monday in Jackson. Construction of … Continue reading
Posted in Career, Management, Manufacturing, Public Sector
Tagged Education, lean manufacturing
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Printer Product Development Using Design of Experiments
MEMS development in less than half the time by Christopher N. Delametter, Eastman Kodak Company The traditional approach to optimizing a product or process using computer simulation is to evaluate the effects of one design parameter at a time. The … Continue reading
Posted in Design of Experiments, Investing, Systems thinking
Tagged Design of Experiments
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Google Knows it is a 2.0 World
You can accomplish a great deal by just talking to people. Google Public Relations: I did not really expect it, but the next day I got a call from Jeffrey Korn at Google California. He explained that he was the … Continue reading
Management Improvement Jobs
Curious Cat Management Improvement Career Connections provides a source of jobs targeted to those interested in this blog. Take a look at the jobs listed now including: Lean Manager at Erlanger in Kentucky; Senior Lean Six Sigma Specialist at Cooper … Continue reading
Management Blog Posts From June 2005
Here are the blog posts from 3 years ago this month on the Curious Cat Management Improvement blog: From Mechanistic to Social Systemic Thinking – Targets Distorting the System – Dilbert and Deming. The Dilbert site has learned to take … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Management
Tagged bad usability, blogs, management, Performance Appraisal
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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
Zipcar Innovation
Zipcar is an intriguing idea where you rent cars by the hour. The whole process is a significant change from the previous rental model (gas, parking and insurance included). Zipcar makes deals with local governments to secure zipcar parking near … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Deming, Innovation, Lean thinking, Management, Systems thinking
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Hustle and Flow
There are actually examples of good management by airlines: CEO Flight Attendant – Engineering the Boarding of Airplanes. Here is another one: Hustle & Flow Moving customers from frustration to relief–in a fraction of the time–has been at the root … Continue reading
Posted in Lean thinking, Management, Process improvement, Systems thinking
Tagged Process improvement
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Management Improvement Carnival #37
Ron Pereira is hosting Management Improvement Carnival #37 on the LSS Academy blog, some of the highlights include: Are we Cowboys or Not? by Mark Graban – “Anyway, I’m not trying to start a Liker v Bodek battle, but it’s … Continue reading
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Photos of Forest Glen Preserve in Illinois
Photos from my hike in Forest Glen Preserve, Illinois 2 years ago. Other photos: Kentucky Travelogue – Metropolitan Museum of Art – North Cascades National Park