Verizon Provides Lousy Service = Dog Bites Man
July 4, 2008
It is obvious a few companies don’t have any ability to, provide even just reasonably bad service (for them the goal of decent service is so far away as to not be reasonable). How often do Verizon (based on their lousy track record I won’t... Read more...
Management Improvement Carnival #38
July 1, 2008
Please submit your favorite management posts to the carnival. Read the previous management carnivals. Value in Value Stream Mapping by Mike Wroblewski - “value stream maps helped us all agree on our current state and what our future state vision... Read more...
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...
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...
Google Knows it is a 2.0 World
June 27, 2008
You can accomplish a great deal by just talking to people. Google Public Relations: I did not really expect it, but the next day I got a call from Jeffrey Korn at Google California. He explained that he was the one responsible for building the Google... Read more...
Management Improvement Jobs
June 25, 2008
The Curious Cat Management Improvement Career Connections provides a source of jobs targeted to those interested in this blog. Take a look at the jobs listed now including: Lean Manager at Erlanger in Kentucky; Senior Lean Six Sigma Specialist at Cooper... Read more...
Management Blogs Posts From June 2005
June 24, 2008
Here are the blog posts from 3 years ago this month on the Curious Cat Management Improvement blog: From Mechanistic to Social Systemic Thinking - Targets Distorting the System - Dilbert and Deming. The Dilbert site has learned to take advantage of the... Read more...
The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success
June 23, 2008
An interesting article in this month’s Harvard Business Review looks at the seeming contradictions at Toyota - The Contradictions That Drive Toyota’s Success by Hirotaka Takeuchi, Emi Osono, and Norihiko Shimizu Many of Toyota’s goals... Read more...
Zipcar Innovation
June 21, 2008
Zipcar is an intriguing idea where you rent cars by the hour. The whole process is a significant change from the previous rental model (gas, parking and insurance included). Zipcar makes deals with local governments to secure zipcar parking near public... Read more...
Hustle and Flow
June 17, 2008
There are actually examples of good management by airlines: CEO Flight Attendant - Engineering the Boarding of Airplanes. Here is another one: Hustle & Flow Moving customers from frustration to relief–in a fraction of the time–has been... Read more...
