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Yes, it is possible to inject a bit of humor into six-sigma, but not too much as these “jokes” prove:
Q: What type of control chart do you use for [...]
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The PDCA (or PDSA) Cycle was originally conceived by Walter Shewhart in 1930’s, and later adopted by W. Edwards Deming. The model provides a framework for the improvement of a process or system. It can be used to guide the entire improvement project, or to develop specific projects once target improvement areas have been identified. [...]
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It’s not hard to figure out why Americans think sending wrong-doers to jail is such a good idea. The massive increase in the prison population from 380,000 in 1975 to 2.2 million today overlaps with an equally stunning decline in crime: during the Nineties, the homicide rate fell by an astonishing 43%. Cause and effect? [...]
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How much “value-added” time do you spend surfing the web? “Wilfing” - or surfing the web without any real purpose has become an epidemic.
more than two-thirds of the 33.7 million internet users in the UK admit to at least the occasional “wilf” (a term derived from the phrase “what was I looking for?”), while browsing [...]
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America should emulate Britain by expanding the use of surveillance cameras. So proposes Senator Joe Lieberman, who cites the effective response of the UK police in the wake of the recent failed terrorist attacks, and who believes that they can do it without compromising anybody’s real privacy. The senator’s intentions are noble, but America should [...]
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We’re used to Bush making visionary speeches that amount to nothing but the one he gave on the eve of the G8 summit in Germany sounded genuinely ground-breaking. Here was the US President, famously sceptical of global warming, not only admitting the world has a serious problem but even inviting the world’s 15 richest nations, [...]
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A couple of blog articles caught my eye today. The first from Seth Godin who suggests that
by creating a flat organization and building (customer) relationships you can attain error rates equal to one in six million.
The second was on the integration on Six Sigma with innovation. This is often a hotly [...]
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Last year Jacques Chirac pledged to fight the spread of the English language across the world after walking out of an EU summit because a French business leader committed the grave offence of speaking in English. He said at the time:
“We fight for our language… I was profoundly shocked to see a Frenchman express himself [...]
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“The quality manager must be clear, right from the start, that zero defects is not a motivation program. Its purpose is to communicate to all employees the literal meaning of the words ‘zero defects’ and the thought that everyone should do things right the first time.”–Quality Is Free by Philip B. Crosby
W. Edwards Deming, New [...]
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What price quality? Does quality mean craftmanship?
Savile Row’s finest are up in well-tailored arms about advertisements from a company called Sartoriani, which promotes £495 bespoke suits from the traditional home of men’s couture. One anonymous traditionalist complained to the Advertising Standards Authority that the claim was misleading since bespoke suits 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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Furoshiki are a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth that were frequently used to transport clothes, gifts, or other goods.
Furoshiki means “bath spread” — in feudal Japan, they were used to bundle and protect people’s clothing at public bath houses, but over the years, their standard use has been to tie up any bundle you [...]
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What is Takt Time?
Takt time can be defined as the maximum time allowed to produce a product in order to meet demand. It is derived from the German word taktzeit which translates to clock cycle. The pace of production flow would then be set based on this takt time. Product flow is [...]
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Economic libertarians are wedded to choice believing that people should be given free rein to make bad choices as well as good - by smoking, for example, or failing to take out a pension plan. Once they have had time to rationally calibrate the costs and benefits, they will realise that [...]
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AKA Fishbone Diagrams or Ishikawa Diagrams
Kaoru Ishikawa pioneered the cause and effect diagram to explore all the potential causes that result in a single effect.
Description: The fishbone diagram identifies many possible causes for an effect or problem. It can be used to structure a brainstorming session. It immediately sorts ideas into useful categories.
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What is the [...]
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