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Management Tools For Leaders: Cause & Effect Diagram

Rich Gee Group

History: Fishbones or causal diagrams were popularized by Kaoru Ishikawa in the 1960s that show the potential causes of a specific event. Applications: Common uses of the diagram are process issues, product design, or quality defect prevention to identify potential factors causing an overall effect. They solve their own issues!

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Quality is a Journey to Excellence

Curious Cat

. … When the Japanese talk about quality, it means not only the quality of the product, the quality of the processes producing the product, the quality of the designs that go into processes and the product, quality people, quality systems, quality everything. Ishikawa talks about it as a thought revolution for managers. .”

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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department

Curious Cat

This step is an ongoing process—it is continuous improvement within the organization. You may ask what the role of Quality Leadership was in the transformational process? The chief continues to stress teamwork, Quality Leadership, and use of improvement methods in order to continue the process of transformation. Year eleven.

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How We Revolutionized Our Emergency Department

Harvard Business Review

And to achieve our aim of “VIP care for every patient, every time,” we not only had to re-engineer our processes; we had to fundamentally change our culture. Rethinking the time-honored processes upon which our daily operations depended would require overcoming the complacency that pervades many large academic medical centers.

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Evergreen Content & SEO Traffic (Growth of 237,648 Visits)

Miles Anthony Smith

Later in this post, I am going to show you the stats where I’ve grown organic Google traffic by 237,648 visits in 12 months for four websites using a process I will also explain in step-by-step detail. However, creating engaging evergreen content isn’t simple until you understand all of the proper steps to take in the process.

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