National Medal of Technology and Innovation
October 16, 2008
Armand V. Feigenbaum received the 2007 National Medal of and Technology and Innovation for his leadership in the development of the economic relationship of quality costs, productivity improvement, and profitability, and for his pioneering application... Read more...
Management Improvement Carnival #44
October 15, 2008
Read the previous management carnivals. Also see the management Reddit for popular new blog posts to include in future carnivals. Hire them, fire them, do what you want with them by Jay Padinjaredath - “A quote from Deming: “In Japan when... Read more...
Restaurant Eliminates Tipping to Improve System Performance
October 13, 2008
Why Tip? by Paul Wachter When he opened the Linkery, Porter said, he hoped his employees would become as emotionally invested in the venture as he was, sharing a sense of purpose and joy in their work. … Porter instead proposed a service fee of... Read more...
Idle Workers Busy at Toyota
October 13, 2008
Idle Workers Busy at Toyota Instead of sending the workers home, as the Detroit makers often do, Toyota is keeping them at the plants, though. The employees spend their days in training sessions designed to sharpen their job skills and find better ways... Read more...
Financial Market Meltdown
October 10, 2008
The financial market meltdown has grown to the point where it has profound ramifications for everyone. The common wisdom for financial market variation, for most of us, is just to focus on the long term and don’t worry about short term fluctuations.... Read more...
2008 Deming Prize: Tata Steel
October 8, 2008
Tata Steel, India, has been awarded the 2008 Deming Prize. They were the only organization to receive the prize this year. Mr. B. Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel, while expressing satisfaction over this accomplishment said, “No other... Read more...
Motivate or Eliminate De-Motivation
October 7, 2008
To Motivate or Not to Demotivate The idea that you cannot motivate a person is wrong. I suspect that it has grown out of failed “motivational” initiatives like company slogans, posters, pep talks, performance reviews, and coffee cups with... Read more...
Performance Appraisal Problems
October 6, 2008
More and more people are willing to state the frustration with the performance appraisal process. Some have been willing to take the logical step of eliminating that which causes problems but many still don’t think elimination of performance appraisals... Read more...
Wind Power Provided Over 1% of Global Electricity in 2007
October 3, 2008
Data from World Wind Energy Association, for installed Mega Watts of global wind power capacity in 2007. 19,696 MW of capacity were added in 2007, bringing the total to 93,849 MW. Europe accounts for 61% of installed capacity, Germany accounts for... Read more...
Management Improvement Carnival #44
October 1, 2008
Kevin Meyer is hosting the Management Improvement Carnival #44 on the Evolving Excellence blog, highlights include: What would Taiichi Ohno do? at TimeBack Management. I do think there’s tremendous value in applying 5S to the information you... Read more...
