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Management Improvement Blogs - Customer Focused Continuous Improvement

Web Logs (Blogs) covering topics such as Continuous Improvement, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Customer Focus, Six Sigma, Process Improvement, Agile Management, Lean Thinking, System Thinking, Theory of Constraints.

  • A Lean Journey Blog by Tim McMahon - "With so much emphasis on continuous improvement we often miss the true teaching of TPS (Thinking People System)."

  • Ackoff Center Weblog A forum where systems thinkers can interact and occasionally comment on/discuss issues affecting them and their organizations.

  • ASQ Indianapolis Section

  • Avoiding The Corporate Death Spiral Blog by Gregg Stocker on the state of business and how to improve competitiveness and quality of life for everybody.

  • Better Process Podcast Podcast blog on topics such as lean, six sigma, process improvement, charting and manufacturing.

  • Biz-Think "A business compendium of relevant management and leadership information offering insight, inspiration, education, and leading ideas on how to achieve breakthrough performance..."

  • Bob Sutton: Work Matters Blog from Stanford profesor and author of "Management Advice: Which 90% is Crap?", the Knowing Doing Gap and much more.

  • Capable Blog Blog by Shaun Sayers.

  • Chasing the Rabbit Blog by Steven Spear on lean thinking and other management topics

  • Curious Cat Management Blog - Health Care Feed Health Care feed of our blog focused on management articles on topics including: Deming, lean thinking, six sigma, statistical tools, innovation, leadership, systems thinking, customer focus and continuous improvement.

  • Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog Blog by John Hunter focused on management improvement: innovation, customer focus, systems thinking, Deming's ideas, lean thinking, process improvement, six sigma, data based decision making, project management, software development and more.

  • Daily Kaizen "This blog is an experiment. We intend to track the journey of a world-class health care system as it continuously improves to serve its members."

  • David Maister Blog

  • de bono blog By the de Bono Institute-Melbourne, Australia.

  • Evolving Excellence Thoughts on lean enterprise leadership by Kevin Meyer.

  • Financial Times Management Blog Authors, Adam Jones and Stefan Stern, write on strategic and operational issues of management.

  • Focused Performance Blog Links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective by Frank Patrick.

  • Got Boondoggle? This blog provides advice on how to apply lean principles effectively.

  • Healthcare Performance Partners "HPP educates and trains executives and staffs on the principles of LEAN Healthcare then guides clients throughout the implementation phase so that LEAN becomes a way of life in daily operations." The site also offers several articles on lean thinking as well as a blog.

  • In Pursuit of Elegance by Matthew E. May author of Elegant Solutions: Toyota's Formula for Mastering Innovation.

  • Jamie Flinchbaugh Blog on lean culture, transformational leadership, and entrepreneurial excellence by Jamie Flinchbaugh.

  • Kaikaku Lean ideas by Norman Bodek, author of Kaikaku: The Power and Magic of Lean and All You Gotta Do Is Ask.

  • KnowHR Human resource blog with an understanding of theory y management.

  • Lean Concepts Blog (China) Tony Wong's blog on his experience leading lean transformation in China. The blog aims to encourage intelligent discussion about implementation of lean manufacturing and spread lean concept to the others.

  • Lean Connections Blog and articles by Adam Zak, with a focus on lean executive search.

  • Lean Executive Blog Blog by Mark Edmondson and Bill Waddell.

  • Lean Insider by Ralph Bernstein for Productivity Press: news, research and trends on all things lean.

  • Lean Is Good Blog by Bruce Baker and Bryan Zeigler.

  • Lean Management Column by John Shook at the Lean Enterprise Institute.

  • Lean Manufacturing Blog News articles and book reviews on the the Toyota Production System, Lean Manufacturing, kaizen, kanban and other continuous improvement methodologies.

  • Lean Printing "Committed to continual improvement of printing and the graphic arts."

  • Lean Reflections Blog by Karen Wilhelm, editor of the Lean Directions newsletter for the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.

  • Lean Six Sigma Academy Blog by Ron Pereira: "We hope to share our experiences with other Lean and Six Sigma practitioners throughout the world. We also hope to shed some light on how we believe Lean and Six Sigma can and should work in harmony."

  • Lean Software Engineering "Essays on the Continuous Delivery of High Quality Information Systems - Our purpose in life is to do the right things at the right time in the right order, and then write about it."

  • Learn Sigma blog by Robert Thompson: "deliberations on business improvement tools, systems and techniques, including lean six sigma and anything else which I think is vaguely relevant"

  • Making IT Clear Blog by Harwell Thrasher focusing on explaining IT issues to a business audience, and giving business people advice on how to improve the effectiveness of their IT organizations.

  • Making Sense With Facilitated Systems Blog by Bill Harris with a systemic take on management. Information Technology is often discussed.

  • Management Craft Thoughts on management and leadership by Lisa Haneberg.

  • Meikah Delid (six sigma) Six sigma blog from the Philippines.

  • NC State of Business Blog from the NC State University Industrial Extension Service.

  • Panta Rei "A weblog about better ways to make things better." Focused on lean thinking. Translations of Japanese work including Gemba Keiei by Taiichi Ohno.

  • pdcauditing.com Blog and podcasts on quality management topics. Appears to be inactive (no posts in 2007 or 2008).

  • Process Rants Blog on process improvement, six sigma, software development...

  • Quality and Innovation blog by Nicole Radziwill which, among other things, seeks to describe issues and techniques associated with the management of quality and innovation in new, different, or unconventional ways and in ways managers find useful.

  • Quality in Education

  • Reforming Project Management Blog with a focus on lean construction and project management by Hal Halmacomber.

  • Shmula Covering lean, ToC, agile, operations management and customer obsession (with real amazon examples - where he used to work). Informative and detailed posts.

  • Statistical and Scientifc Thinking blog Topics include applying Deming's ideas and statistical methods.

  • Stats Made Easy Blog by Mark J. Anderson on design of experiments, statistics and six sigma consultant.

  • The Lean Thinker "Thoughts and insights from the shop floor."

  • Three Sigma Systems Management consulting firm with blog by Marc Hersch

  • TimeBack Management Dan Markovitz is the founder of this consulting firm and author for the excellent blog.

  • Total Productive Maintenance Blog A corporate weblog for advancement of TPM and Lean ideas within the American Mitsuba family of companies and suppliers.

  • Training Within Industry Blog by Bryan Lund TWI and lean manufacturing concepts.

  • Unfolding Leadership Blog Co-author of Driving Fear Out of the Workplace and The Courageous Messenger.

  • Visual Management Blog The goal of this blog is to create a space for the discussion of ideas and examples of Visual Management applied to agile software development teams and agile project management.