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• IT Folks Need Root Cause Analysis Too - Especially in London!

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  All high performance systems need root cause analysis. They can use it reactively when things go wrong and proactively to keep things from going wrong. Long ago we had our first “network reliability” people start using TapRooT® to improve network reliability. Our first ci=ustomer was a company that supplied high ...
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• Fuelishness! Feed: Saving Money Motiviate Drivers; Oil & Gas Not Prepared for Risk; New Drilling Tech vs. Peak Oil; Doubts about 2016 Efficiency Goals

  
  Fuelishness! Fuel Economy Blog — Authority: 123
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• 7 Steps Towards Turning Your Work/Life Pain into Pleasure

  
  StrategyDriven — Authority: 128
  Does this picture fit you? sleeplessness being angry a little too often frequent frustration increased absenteeism from work presenteeism (going to work when you were so sick you should have stayed home) reduced concern for customers/ clients emotional exhaustion a reduced sense of accomplishment unable to ...
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• Thanksgiving History - What is the “Root Cause” of Thanksgiving?

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  Here is my Thanksgiving posting. I post it every year, lest we forget. In America, today is a day to get together with family and friends and reflect on our blessings - which are many! One of my ancestors, Peregrine White, was the first child born to the Pilgrims in the New World. During November of ...
  2 days ago

• Root Cause Analysis Tip: Don’t Follow Bad Root Cause Analysis Advice

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  I saw two articles by Ronda Levine recommending “5-Whys” as a preferred root cause analysis technique and giving a 5-Why example. Here’s the example from the article: After determining that the quality management project would focus on the cause of the image bleed on the t-shirts (because almost 2/3 of ...
  2 days ago

• Oops becomes learning Experience for Town & Nuclear Plant

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  Sometimes you can even learn from false alarms. See: http://dailyme.com/story/2009112300003009/millstone-false-alarm-learning-experience-groton-.html and read an article from The Day about a false alarm from a nuclear plant’s evacuation alarms. Share on Facebook
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• Midair Near-Miss in Middle East

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  Here’s the story reported in Maktoob Business : http://business.maktoob.com/20090000399130/Saudia_Gulf_Air_involved_in_midair_scare/Article.htm?utm_campaign=Night-Newsletter&utm_medium=Main-News5&utm_source=Night-Newsletter&utm_content= Better to do a root cause analysis on a near-miss and learn ...
  4 days ago

• What is Coaching and Why We Use It in Business and Personal Life

  
  Bizcovering — Authority: 130
  As with sport, coaching is about improving performance; changing habits; making the game fairer; adjusting to new rules, regulations and environments; honing skills; practicing new methods; learning new approaches; keeping up with modern techniques; being abreast of the latest advances and technology and generally ...
  5 days ago

• Firms Can Save By Going Green

  
  Fuelishness! Fuel Economy Blog — Authority: 123
  Source: Chicago Sun Times“There’s no question that if you improve driver behavior, specifically improve driver efficiency, you’ll create less emissions because you burn less gas,” said Samsel, program director.…Some corporations adopt green fleet programs to be more environmentally friendly, while others ...
  1 week ago

• Spy-in-the-cab Could Improve Teenage Driving

  
  Fuelishness! Fuel Economy Blog — Authority: 123
  Source: New ScientistACCIDENT rates among teenage drivers could be slashed using in-car technology that warns them when they are driving recklessly.So says safety engineer Oren Musicant at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, who wanted to know if in-car technology could help reduce the appalling number of teenage deaths ...
  1 week ago

• Incentives AND Recognition - Forbes Article AND Some Thoughts

  
  i2i - Incentive Intelligence — Authority: 118
  A tweet came through today linking me to an article on Forbes online discussing recognition and rewards and their relationship with employee engagement. AND or BUT I have a comment on the article.  Normally, when taking a position on something like this the process is to say -- "I think this, but I also think ...
  1 week ago

• Changing Human Behavior by Adding Some Fun

  
  Fuelishness! Fuel Economy Blog — Authority: 123
  Easily understandable feedback can help motivate people to change their behavior. When they can “see” the results of their behavior, and “evaluate” the results of slight changes in their choices, there is the potential to motivate people to make changes in their behavior – based on what they decide to do ...
  1 week ago

• USS Hartford / USS New Orleans Collision & Subsequent Discipline - MORE INFO

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  Here’s a link to the previous blog post on this topic: http://www.taproot.com/wordpress/2009/11/02/monday-accident-lessons-learned-us-navy-ships-collide-corrective-action-fire-the-co/ This isn’t the first time I’ve written about submarine accidents. Here are 6 other links to review: ...
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• Group-centric work and training

  
  Harold Jarche — Authority: 510
  Individual Training In the +20 years I spent in the military, much of it was as a student on course. In the military there is a whole system that governs individual training, in our case it was CFITES. CFITES comprises several volumes of instructions, including all of the ADDIE steps. A lot of resources are put ...
  1 week ago

• Horrible Death at Rice Factory Costs One Life and £140,000 Fine

  
  Root Cause Analysis Blog — Authority: 139
  SHP reported on a horrible accident at the Veetee Rice Ltd factory in the UK. A worker entered a rice silo to clear a jam with the auger still energized. He sunk into the rice and his leg was trapped in the auger. It had to be amputated to free him. he died on his way to the hospital. What physical safeguards do ...
  1 week ago

• From the US Government - Incentives Are Bad - No, Theyre Good, No Theyre...

  
  i2i - Incentive Intelligence — Authority: 118
  Okay - didnt I read somewhere that incentives for the top dogs at AIG were a bad thing?  Didnt I hear Dan Pink say incentives are the bane of business innovation?  Didnt I see countless tweets and posts on how we need to do away with extrinsic reward programs, hold hands and sing Kumbaya to drive business ...
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• Hey Incentive Companies - Im Not Buying It

  
  i2i - Incentive Intelligence — Authority: 118
  Like the vegetarian who only eats organic beef or the pacifist who only fights other pacifists, incentive companies are playing a little fast and loose with some of the basic tenets of the incentive industry.  Its not a new phenomenon - its been something thats been going on since the early 90s. I think the nose ...
  2 weeks ago

• Incentive Programs Need More Network

  
  i2i - Incentive Intelligence — Authority: 118
  Like the now infamous Saturday Night Live Skit - Need More Cowbell , incentive programs need more network.  Yesterday an article of ours went up on Incentive Magazine focused on the need to look at the networks your target audience participates in - and focus your communications on those networks in addition to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Service Anniversary Awards - Again!

  
  i2i - Incentive Intelligence — Authority: 118
  I dont know if it is just an easy target or one that is on my mind more than other typical enterprise reward programs.  Maybe because almost EVERY company celebrates service anniversaries it is just the most often encountered in my work. (see another post here .) But I still come back to the fact that these ...
  2 weeks ago

• Process Improvement utilizing Lean and Lean Sigma

  
  Business901 — Authority: 425
  Glenn Whitfield serves as Director of Dean Dorton Ford ’s Process Improvement Services group based out of the Louisville office. Glenn was my guest on the Business901 Podcast and we had the opportunity to discuss DDF’s methodology for improvement within an organization. Their methodology concentrates on a Value ...
  2 weeks ago

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