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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

Deming Institute

After escaping GM, I had an opportunity to attend graduate school at MIT, to study operations management, system dynamics, and other topics. To this day, I say (only half-jokingly) that learning about Deming was both the best thing and the worst thing that ever happened in my career. More about that in a later post in this series.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements, which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013. Mark is also the Vice President of Improvement & Innovation Services for the software company KaiNexus.

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, HBR dubbed data scientist “the sexiest job of the 21st century ” It is also, arguably, the vaguest. Decision scientist: Decision makers (executives, business leaders, product managers), data engineers, software engineers responsible for the applications generating data. Monty Rakusen/Getty Images.

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Make Sure Your Dream Company Can Find You

Harvard Business Review

New businesses are cropping up to reinvent the recruiting process, blending data from social media sites to create profiles of coders, programmers and software engineers so that companies hoping to hire can search for candidates that have the skills they desire. Take for example RackSpace , an open-source operating system for the cloud.

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Why the VA Couldn’t Keep Up with IT

Harvard Business Review

Before retiring in 2012, it was a balancing act he knew well. For the last three years of his career, he was responsible for the $6 billion portion of the Air Force budget dedicated to IT, where his main responsibilities ranged from Air Force cyber activity to IT upgrades to career field management.

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

nearly 6 million entry-level jobs will be created from 2012 to 2022, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Across the U.S., With low unemployment, the competition for talent remains fierce. ”

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Case Study: Is It Ever OK to Break a Promise?

Harvard Business Review

Manager, Operations. Manager, Operations. Date: January 20, 2012 20:41. To: Ioana Romana, VP Operations. Date: January 23, 2012 14:18. I can do the job of just about anyone in the factory and can work most of the software the engineering guys use. Date: January 23, 2012 14:42. From: Sameer Hopskin.