Mississippi Plans Manufacturing Management Center
June 30, 2008
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.... Read more...
London Calling!
June 30, 2008
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Small Business Dashboards
June 30, 2008
Several readers of Dashboards By Example have reminded me that the objective of the blog, as the name suggests, is to show actual examples of dashboards. It’s nice to see the cutting edge visualizations and hear about the theories behind software... Read more...
Execution and The Middle Manager
June 30, 2008
According vice dean of Wharton Executive Education Thomas Colligan:"Many companies are seeing significant turnover in middle management ranks, and with significant turnover, they don't have the ability to execute strategy. Top management can spend all... Read more...
Hands Off
June 30, 2008
"Muriel is a line worker, who reports to her supervisor, Vince, who reports to me. Muriel has been here for six months. I am certainly not her supervisor, but I am the Manager Once Removed for her team. Her team is a very important element of my system,"... Read more...
Comic for June 30, 2008
June 30, 2008
Printer Product Development Using Design of Experiments
June 30, 2008
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 problem... Read more...
Ambiguous Visual Controls: No Running in the Airplane
June 30, 2008
The more you look the more you see ambiguous visual controls. Some are well-intentioned, while others appear to be half-hearted attempts to comply with some bureaucratic requirements. Others hint at hidden efficiencies or inefficiencies resulting in questionable... Read more...
How to Coach Directs on Interpersonal Skills - Part 2
June 29, 2008
On today’s cast, we complete our discussion on coaching directs on interpersonal skills. Of course, if you haven’t listened to last week’s cast, you may want to start there. Read More →
Comic for June 29, 2008
June 29, 2008