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John Hunter has been writing about management online since 1995. He has shared ideas on management via his blog, Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog, since 2005 and recently as the new author of the Dr. Deming blog hosted by the W.Edwards Deming Institute. In John’s new book, Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability, he looks at Read More …
In the research paper, Relations between Lean Management and Organizational Structures, the authors came to this conclusion: Lean management can be a very effective management method, but, as the practice shows, it must be treated as a holistic approach directed to changing the whole company. Having the knowledge about the principles of the method, there Read More …
Dr. Deming and Curious Cat blog author, John Hunter has published a new book, Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability that can be found on his website. I interviewed John about his book, which you will hear next week. I extracted a short portion of the audio where John discusses adding two new deadly diseases of Read More …
When I first started working years ago there seem to be a fairly prescriptive way of doing things. In sales: We used Rackman’s SPIN Selling techniques and of course, we did this with the decision maker. In Marketing: We looked at three different lead generation techniques – Public Relations, Advertising and Referrals. In operations: We Read More …
Lean is considered by many as a product dominant thinking methodology. Lean was based primarily on the Toyota Production Process, which was an avid follower of Dr. Deming. Lean became more problem/solution orientated and another outgrowth of Dr. Deming, Systems Thinking, moved more to the Peter Senge approach illustrated in The Fifth Discipline. A crude Read More …
Steve Horowitz’s 25 year career integrates his experiences as a band leader, with his explorations as a multi faceted composer. Horowitz can be found working and touring with his group The Code Ensemble, a 14-piece electro-acoustic chamber ensemble, and has released 10 compact discs to date. Horowitz has a large catalog of music for traditional Read More …