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Garbage In, Wheat and Soybeans Out?

It boggles my mind that messed-up data can be reported by very large institutions

Steve Martin
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Thu, 02/28/2013 - 11:25
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Iran across an old but interesting article by Mara Lee on the Hartford Courant website: “Big Exports From Connecticut: Corn, Wheat, Soybeans, Oil; Feds Can’t Explain It.” The article provides a wonderful example of just how far one’s concept of reality can become skewed by not following the basic lean lesson: go to the gemba.

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Apparently, we Connecticut folks are getting pretty good at growing and selling things like wheat and soybeans. One little problem about that, however: We don’t.

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Submitted by Bill Sproat on Mon, 03/11/2013 - 10:51

Gov't Waste? Say it isn't so

Maybe you should forward this information to Congress.  I hear they're looking to trim 2% or so from the budget and have no leads on where to cut.

Great article.

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