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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

SHRM - Society for Human Resource Managment Indispensible for the HR Professional!  This week I have a great management blog carnival to share with you. The Resource: Management Improvement Carnival What it is:  The Management Improvement Carnival is similar to other blog carnivals that you may be familiar with (e.g.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * When they set out to [.].

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. He then used the bone diagram process to again listen to stakeholders to determine their desired state for the district.

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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

As those familiar with Deming’s ideas know, Dr. Deming added excessive health care costs to his 7 deadly diseases of Western management. Brent spoke of several process improvements demonstrating Deming’s Chain Reaction (improving processes increases quality and reduces costs). Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician.

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

The idea of testing opinions and beliefs is key to Deming’s management system (as it is to the scientific method). Vincent includes valuable ideas from Russ Ackoff on an organizational decision making process (including the importance of learning from decisions over the long term ). 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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Reliability: Another Dimension of Quality

Deming Institute

Analytic study : Everything else and especially sampling from a process. can allow an organization to create processes to intervene prior to failure. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. You refer to a new book that you published. I should be pleased to have a copy.

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