Hi and welcome to my site: learnsigma.com. It seems like you’re new here, so you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!You don’t have to be a peak oil doom-monger to find the latest report from the International Energy Agency scary reading. It’s fair to say that current Western civilisation [...]
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Two recipes for fixing the NHS have been on offer in the media recently. Sir Gerry Robinson’s attempt to galvanise Rotherham General Hospital was rather like a reality TV show, and his idea that one brilliant manager can get the service into shape is dangerous and deluded.
Far more encouraging was Peter Day’s In Business programme [...]
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There’s one thing you can always count on with America’s car industry, if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster. In the Twenties, the president of General Motors insisted his company couldn’t possibly afford to make windscreens with safety glass. In the Fifties, auto executives warned Congress that making seat [...]
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Colombia’s president Alvaro Uribe has been dancing to America’s tune thanks to an annual injection of $600m in US aid, he has beefed up Colombia’s anti-narcotics police, seized record tons of cocaine and extradited 520 drug traffickers to US jails
Hey, this is all good news right? Erm, well he’s gone and overdone it a bit.
He’s [...]
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And… “Why are countries failing to act with any sense of urgency?”
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What’s the problem?
In May of 2002, the World Health Organization announced a rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Remarkably, this occurred not only in affluent developed nations - but also among developing nations in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, where malnutrition was once [...]
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Have you ever used Minitab and been overwhelmed by the amount of worksheets and graphs you have open at any one time? If so, then you need to use the following:
The Project Manager
All the worksheets, session commands, graphs and reports of a Minitab session constitute a Project. The Project Manager provides a means of viewing, [...]
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The usefulness of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) have been proven in industry for decades. They are the documents for training and assessing the competence of an individual to perform a given task. Following the ‘one best way’ philosophy here’s how you solve a Rubik Cube in six-seconds.
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I’m always interested in the concept of change blindness:
the phenomenon where a person viewing a visual scene apparently fails to detect large changes in the scene. For change blindness to occur, the change in the scene typically has to coincide with some visual, disruption such as a saccade (eye movement) or a brief obscuration of [...]
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My friend built a wooden car. It had wooden seats, a wooden chassis, wooden wheels and a wooden engine.
It only had one problem. It wooden start.
This wooden car, built in Japan, cost roughly $32,500 and can reach 90 km/h. According to a Japan Probe post, it was made by a furniture manufacturer.
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Boing Boing reports that the Tokyo Commuter Alarm Clock has dials for the major Tokyo rail lines. The clock is updated wirelessly in real-time with the position of trains on each line, so you know exactly how long you have to catch your subway. Link (via OhGizmo)
If only we had the same level of customer [...]
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With climate change now an increasingly important concern for policy-makers, can personal carbon trading make a difference? I think so and here’s why.
Personal carbon trading is an idea whose time has come. You can’t expect it to solve problems of inequity which already exist in the world - the rich will [...]
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Rising temperatures allow Africa’s biggest killer to spread to the highlands, where it once was rare.
In the central mountain regions of Africa once too cool for the carrier mosquitoes, millions are suddenly at risk. In Kenya’s western highlands, maximum annual temperatures over the last 20 years are up about 1.8 degrees. Since [...]
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