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Inspection, Abstraction and Shipping Containers
On my drive home tonight, a giant “Maersk Sealand” branded truck passed me on the highway. It got me thinking about how introducing a standard size and container shape revolutionized the shipping industry and enabled a growing global economy. At least that’s the perspective presented by Mark Levinson in The Box: How the Shipping Container…
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2008 Management Improvement Carnival: Part 4 of 4
This is the fourth and final installment of my collaboration with John Hunter and friends on the Year-End Management Improvement Carnival, where we review the best management improvement blogs and share which posts we found to be the most insightful or helpful. Today I have the privilege of bringing you a few gems from the…
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2008 Management Improvement Carnival: Part 3 of 4
This is the third installment of my collaboration with John Hunter and friends on the Year-End Management Improvement Carnival, where we review the best management improvement blogs and share which posts we found to be the most insightful or helpful. PART 3 of 4 – Clarke Ching’s stream-of-consciousness blog covers random musings, cartoons, links to…
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2008 Management Improvement Carnival: Part 2 of 4
This is the next installment of my collaboration with John Hunter and friends on the Year-End Management Improvement Carnival, where we review the best management improvement blogs and share which posts we found to be the most insightful or helpful. PART 2 of 4 – Europe’s ”#1 Blog for Software Development Managers” has posted an…
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2008 Management Improvement Carnival: The Year in Review
I’m privileged to be partnering with John Hunter and friends to produce the Year-End Management Improvement Carnival. Our goal is to review the best management improvement blogs out there, and find out what gems were posted during 2008 – then take you on a guided tour of the past year’s most intriguing management insights. PART…
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Management Improvement Carnival #48
I’m pleased to be hosting this edition of John Hunter’s Management Improvement Carnival. This concept aims to bring together some of the most intriguing blog articles from the past couple of weeks on topics relevant to quality, continuous improvement, and effective management. You can also submit your favorite management posts to John to be included…
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A Dynamic Model of Quality Improvement
Debanjan Mitra, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing at the University of Florida, is a quality guru – whether quality professionals know it or not. Here’s why: have you ever been frustrated by all those definitions for quality (e.g. the transcendent “you know it when you see it”, Crosby’s “zero defects”, Juran’s “fitness…
Quality and Innovation 