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The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy Versus Process

QAspire

Regards, Jay Chhaya By Tanmay , October 14, 2010 @ 12:54 pm @Jay - Thanks for the comment. Best, Tanmay By Glyn Lumley , October 14, 2010 @ 1:51 pm An excellent post, Tanmay. Your reference to gaps in the lateral movement of work reminded be of Frank Voehl’s post on the Deming Learning Network - “Managing the White Space&#.

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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2015

Curious Cat

The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010). How to Get a New Management Strategy, Tool or Concept Adopted (2010). Why Don’t Football Players Just Thrown the Ball Out of Bounds to Stop the Clock (2010). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Don’t Treat People How You Want to be Treated (2010).

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A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi

QAspire

Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. Thanks for quoating similar situation with those creative group of people By Tanmay Vora , March 31, 2010 @ 12:00 pm @L M Foong - Thanks for commenting.

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Using Outdated Management Practices Can Be Very Costly

Deming Institute

Readers of this blog are aware of the problems created by using quotas: Achieved the goal by not the aim (2013) – The Futility of a Numerical Goal (2014) , Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (2013) , Dr. Deming on the problems with targets or goals.

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10 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2014

Curious Cat

The posts were published in 2010 (4 posts), 2013 (2), 2014 (2), 2005 (1) and 2012 (1). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Why Don’t Football Players Just Thrown the Ball Out of Bounds to Stop the Clock (2010). Deming and Software Development (2014).

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Gratitude - 2010

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Gratitude - 2010 I am filled with gratefulness as I think about 2010 coming to an end. John Hunter is a passionate improvement expert who shares some profound lessons on management, leadership, lean and Deming. I wish you all a REMARKABLE 2011! I hope we can meet in person in 2011!

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China's Luxury Consumers Grow Up

Harvard Business Review

After the country's annual policy planning meeting, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming announced that Beijing would soon reduce tariffs and cut red tape on luxury goods imports. In 2010, sales across categories such as jewelry, leather goods, and upmarket ready-to-wear clothing rose by 20% to reach $12.4 Subtlety is chic.

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