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Healthcare “Reform” is Greek Tragedy
Medical Malprocess —
Authority: 116
There is great pressure to pass a healthcare Bill, even one as flawed as HR 3962. The new Administration has expended great political capital to do so. The public was promised healthcare reform and expects it. Everyone ‘knows’ how sick healthcare is in the USA and it is true: healthcare is indeed highly ...20 hours ago -
Re-engineering the Food System for Better Health
Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog —
Authority: 419
Good food nation According to the Centers for Disease Control, between 1980 and 2006 the percentage of obese teenagers in the United States grew from 5 to 18, while the percentage of pre-teens suffering from obesity increased from 7 to 17. … Obesity is widespread due to our national-scale system of food production ...1 day ago -
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Sustainable Melbourne —
Authority: 128
From “Straight Talk for the Planetary Era: A Trio of Book Reviews” by Edward WolfThinking in Systems reflects Prof. Donella Meadows’ lifelong effort to understand systems at all scales – their resilience, their pathologies, their response to perturbations, their capacity to defy prediction. “A system,” ...5 days ago -
The High Cost of Losing a Developer
the 'bee log —
Authority: 496
Youve probably heard statistics about the "high cost of losing a customer." The theory is simple and true (fact?): keeping existing customers and repeat business is much more profitable than attracting new customers. Here are a few facts from BusinessCoach.com : - For every customer who bothers to complain, there ...1 week ago -
Jobcentre +
The Great E-mancipator —
Authority: 413
Hot off the press (10 November 2009) from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) comes ” A qualitative study of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with Jobcentre Plus ” by Dr Alex Nunn, Fiona Walton and Sukvinder Jassi from the Policy Research Institute at Leeds Metropolitan University. At 152 pages its a ...1 week ago -
Where are the system specialists in UK? The amber light for UK today
flowing motion —
Authority: 437
EPS If you are an accountant or financier, EPS means earnings per share. If you are a staff manager or systems designer, EPS means events, patterns, systems. Events, patterns, systems Here we are in November 2009, a good year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers and two years after the run on Northern Rock. ...1 week ago -
Are we doomed to repeat subprime crises – or could we manage better?
flowing motion —
Authority: 437
Image via Wikipedia Subprime crises ~ again? Umair Haque ’s article in the Harvard Business blog of yesterday nudged me to think through Donella Meadows 12 levers to change a system. Umair thinks a lot of activity in Web2.0, or social media, is little more than a “sub-prime crisis”. And implicitly, ...1 week ago -
Learn Lean by Doing Lean
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog —
Authority: 486
In response to: Developing Your Lean Education Plan If you actually let the lean leaders practice lean management you are probably doing more to help them learn than anything else. Reading is great , but 10 times better when reading to find solutions you need to deal with issues you have in place. Same for ...1 week ago -
Not make toxic junk – not enough – nurture the polity
flowing motion —
Authority: 437
Toxic junk “The great challenge of the 21st century isn’t churning out more toxic junk – it’s learning to make stuff that’s not toxic junk.” So said Umair Haque in today’s Harvard Business Blog. Pointless work Umair’s challenge reminds me a science fiction book that I read years ago. Some bright ...1 week ago -
Developing a Kaizen Conscious with Shingo Prize winner Michael Balle
Business901 —
Authority: 426
Michael Ballé is the co-author of, The Gold Mine , a bestselling business novel of a Lean Turnaround, and recently, The Lean Manager , a novel of a Lean Transformation both published by the Lean Enterprise Institute. For the past 15 years, he has studied lean transformations, helping companies develop a lean ...2 weeks ago -
If You Represent US, You Must Vote Against Self-styled Healthcare Reform.
Medical Malprocess —
Authority: 116
This is written to 435 people in the two Houses of Congress called our Representatives. “Represent” means to speak for or act in the best interest of. If you truly do that, you must vote against the HR (numbers change along with content and without notice) claiming to be healthcare reform. Here are five reasons. ...2 weeks ago -
Critically Sick Healthcare – ‘Fixed’ Politically
Medical Malprocess —
Authority: 116
Suppose that health care providers handled sick patients the same way that our so-called Representatives are treating a sick system named healthcare. Below are examples medical care followed in italics by analogous Congressional ‘treatment’ of healthcare. You go to your primary doctor complaining of pain in your ...2 weeks ago -
Analogues of service
The Great E-mancipator —
Authority: 413
The current edition of Government Computing magazine contains an interview with Kevin Carey of ATcare and chair of HumanITy and the RNIB . The interview is a fascinating insight into what accessibility should be about by someone with a disability and experience of exclusion having become blind in early ...2 weeks ago -
Systems Thinking on the Gross National Product
popular logistics —
Authority: 124
Robert F. Kennedy, in a speech at the University of Kansas, March 18, 1968, said: Robert F. Kennedy "Our Gross National Product, now, is over $800 billion dollars a year, but that Gross National Product - if we judge the United States of America by that - that Gross National Product counts air ...2 weeks ago -
Missed Opportunities to Rescue Dugard Linked to Poor Employee Screening or Poor Pay?
Mission Minded Management —
Authority: 107
According to the San Francisco Chronicle , “State parole agents fell down on the job again and again during the 10 years they supervised sex offender Phillip Craig Garrido, failing to check out clues that could have led to alleged kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard.” [emphasis mine] Parole Agent Work is Level ...2 weeks ago -
Medical programmers are just as bad as the doctors.
Medical Malprocess —
Authority: 116
Programmers of medical information technologies (IT) seemed to have learned from the Renaissance Guild Masters. In at least one way, they are just as bad as doctors. For centuries, doctors have been accused of maintaining their power by keeping their arcane knowledge close to the vest and not sharing. To some extent, ...2 weeks ago -
Agile Tour 2009 retrospective
Thinking for a Change —
Authority: 107
Agile Tour Besançon and Lille 2009 This year, I participated in two stops of the Agile Tour in France: Besançon and Lille . In Besançon I presented the “ Résoudre les Conflits sans Compromis “. In Lille I presented the “ A l’aide! Mon processus m’étrangle “. The participants of the Conflict ...3 weeks ago -
Russell L. Ackoff: 1919 -2009
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog —
Authority: 486
We lost another of the absolutely best minds in management history, this week. Somehow, many managers, do not know of Russell Ackoff’s ideas. I find that amazing. Dr. Ackoff is one of two management thinkers that any manager, that is serious about improving management results in their organization, must study ...3 weeks ago -
Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit (Agile Software Development Series): Mary Poppendieck, Tom Poppendieck
Make Money Myself —
Authority: 137
Editorial Reviews Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit Mary Poppendieck Tom Poppendieck Forewords by Jim Highsmithand Ken Schwaber *Adapting agile practices to your development organization *Uncovering and eradicating waste throughout the software development lifecycle *Practical techniques for every ...3 weeks ago -
Healthcare Needs a Old Fashioned Country Doctor, Part II of II.
Medical Malprocess —
Authority: 116
As a result of a hacker attack, this Post from 2/16/09 was deleted. I am now restoring it at the request of a recent new reader who liked Part I and wondered why there was no Part II. While we have been playing “doctor,” our patient has been getting worse. Previously in Part I, we learned that the patient ...3 weeks ago
