Outcome and In-Process Measures
July 14, 2008
An outcome measure is used to measure the success of a system. For... Read more...
Management Blog Posts from July 2005
July 10, 2008
Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt - “I don’t see any reason why managers in the past shouldn’t... Read more...
Drucker’s Ideas at Toyota
July 8, 2008
The Drucker difference and Toyota’s success by Ira A. Jackson, dean of the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, the business school of the Claremont Colleges. Because of this core belief in the power of people, Toyota invests in people.... Read more...
Better Meetings
July 7, 2008
Meetings are perennial problems. People sit through meetings and then complain about how big a waste of time it was. Here are a couple very simple tips to try and actually improve (instead of just agreeing that meetings are wasteful, but doing nothing... Read more...
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...
