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Damon Buffini is the most important man you’ve probably never heard of (here’s some more “rogues” link). The managing partner of Permira, Europe’s biggest private equity [...]
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Senior Management Commitment
Implementation of Six Sigma represents a long term commitment. The success of Six Sigma projects depends substantially on the level of commitment by the senior management. General Electric’s success with Six Sigma is due in large part to the role that Jack Welch (former CEO) played in relentlessly advocating Six Sigma and integrating [...]
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For all its green rhetoric, Labour has a blind spot about air travel. The recent Climate Change Bill, for instance, doesn’t include aviation in its carbon reduction targets. The Treasury has also dismissed Tory calls for domestic flights to pay tax on fuel, saying that would be inappropriate in a multilateral context, despite the fact [...]
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With six sigma training the aim is not to convert Six Sigma practitioners into statistical experts. Instead, it is to give them the knowledge essential to their success in obtaining business results.
So what should you drop based on the target audience you are trying to reach, here are some ideas:
Hypothesis tests, such [...]
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Kansei is a Japanese term where the syllable kan means sensitivity and sei means sensibility, together it addresses the psychological feeling or image of a product. It is used to express the quality of an object for producing pleasure through its use taking into account subjective issues (emotion, affect, perceptions, sensations…) in [...]
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Here is a great article from the New Scientist which lists details on the twenty-six most common climate myths and misconceptions link. These are:
Human CO2 emissions are too tiny to matter
We can’t do anything about climate change
The ‘hockey stick’ graph has been proven wrong
Chaotic systems are not predictable
We can’t trust computer models of climate
They predicted [...]
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Apparently Six Sigma is a marketing ploy
First, it offers easy money, because both the training and qualification are controlled as though the concepts are unique and innovative and can only be understood, taught and implemented in one way. In reality, many consultants who promote the Six Sigma methodology lack consistency in their training materials and [...]
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What is your plan for Iraq? At every press conference, interview and fund-raising event, the presidential candidates are all asked this same pointless question. And it’s pointless because next to nothing can be done to salvage Iraq.
A planned withdrawal from Iraq should start now. To say longer is really just an embodiment [...]
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This article in the Harvard Business Review looks at how staff are trained in the Toyota Production System (TPS) to make improvements in the production process. The article picks out some of the key differences between TPS and the way most American and European enterprises tackle productivity improvement. I’ll focus on two points:
There is no [...]
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The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer
Toyota developed the after World War II. While Ford and GM used mass production and economies of scale, Toyota faced very different business conditions. Toyota’s market was very small but it had to produce a variety of vehicles on the same assembly line to satisfy [...]
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The Control phase aims to establish standard measures to maintain performance and to correct problems as needed, including problems with the measurement system. This includes:
validate measurement systems;
verify process long-term capability;
implement process control with control plan to ensure that the same problems don’t reoccur by continually monitoring the processes that create the products [...]
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Forget all the talk about Iraq being as bad as the Vietnam War because its far worse.
The US was able to walk away from Vietnam with relative impunity because Vietnam was essentially a peripheral country. Iraq, by contrast, is a key factor, in global oil supplies, so an American withdrawal would be [...]
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Quality Management Tools [link]
Operational Definitions - created by Navy Total Quality Leadership Office.
21 pages. Part of Basic Tools for Process Improvement Handbook
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Brainstorming - created by Navy Total Quality Leadership Office.
19 pages. Part of Basic Tools for Process Improvement Handbook
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Team Decision-Making [...]
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Revolution in Manufacturing: Single-minute Exchange of Die System
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“The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is much more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all [...]
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