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Every week I present a summary of the best posts from the blog-o-sphere which have caught my eye, and here they are:
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Bill Shankly quote:
Someone said “football is more important than life and death to you” and I said “Listen, it’s more important than that.”
Is the elimination of waste more important than life and death?
A major criticism of the Toyota Production System is that while it:
may bring good benefit for companies, the system may [...]
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Fanatics have a habit of undermining their own cause: just look at animal liberationists, and how their gruesome antics diverted attention from worthwhile campaigns aimed at factory farming. A lunatic fringe now threatens to sabotage the global warming debate in the same way.
In the US, the think-tank that accused Al Gore of hypocrisy over his [...]
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I’ve mentioned before that Six Sigma certainly has its critics, and here are some more:
almost five dozen companies that have adopted Six Sigma and found that the vast majority have underperformed the stock market … while fully 86 percent of them use Six Sigma or similar continuous-improvement methodologies, [...]
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If Toyota built homes what would they look like? Apparently they’ve been in the business for making homes for over twenty years!
Since 1975, Toyota has been building steel-frame houses designed to withstand earthquakes and typhoons and keep out burglars. So far, demand for such durable homes has been modest in Japan, where traditional wooden [...]
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Much has changed since then, both in terms of the public profile of climate change and the growing certainty of mainstream scientists that humans are to blame. So the magazine recently repeated the poll. The result?Just 13% of the respondents said yes. (link).
So as the evidence for global warming increases, Republicans are actually getting [...]
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She came trotting by with her watering pot between those two doors, going from the corridor to her office, and she said, “I hope you are teaching Quality to your students.” This in a la?de?da, singsong voice of a lady in her final year before retirement about to water her plants. That [...]
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If the volume of searches is anything to go by on Google it looks like that six sigma, lean, TQM and ISO 9001 are all in slow decline, whereas lean six sigma is increasing in popularity. Strangely, although the volume of searches is in decline, the news articles published on each subject are either static [...]
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Sources: The Harris Poll (http://www.harrisinteractiv…) / Swivel
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As more people are going online for information, they are increasingly turning to internet resources for information they may have once received from a licensed professional; including health care information and advice. Websites like WebMD allow net surfers (aka cyberchondraics) to explore [...]
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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 outfit, he is the public face of an investment revolution that has changed the lives of millions. Put simply, private equity means that a group of [...]
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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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