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A Recipe for Employee Motivation

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How much time employees take off is largely a factor of firm culture.

Lessons From Mismanaged Crises at Yahoo, Cuisinart, and Wells Fargo

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Cuisinart launched a product safety recall in December 2016 of about 8 million food processors

The mismanagement of bet-the-company business crises has become pandemic. Consider just the most recent examples.

Who Are You, Little Girl?

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Gender alone doesn’t indicate whether a leader will be good or bad, strong or weak, effective or ineffective.

FDA: Helping Small Businesses Get Big Results

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Small companies have a significant impact on U.S. made pharmaceuticals

It is well known that small business is vital to the success of the U.S. economy. Less known, though, is how instrumental it has been to the growth and innovation in drug development.

MTBF and Mean of Wearout Data

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Why would anyone would want to calculate the mean of a set of failure data in the first place?

A conversation the other day involved how or why someone would use the mean of a set of data described by a Weibull distribution.

Using 3D Scanning and Laser Tracker Technology for Large-Volume Measurements

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As product size increases, measurement challenges take on larger proportions.

Inside Quality Digest Live for April 14, 2017

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Expect to see e-skin devices in the near future
Credit: University of Tokyo, School of Engineering

On our most recent episode of QDL from this past Fri., April 14, 2017, we took a close look at innovation and engineering. Here’s a quick recap:

What’s the Hurry?

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W. Edwards Deming once said, “A good organization will take five years to turn around. Most will take 10.”

Many talk about reducing variation to improve quality. Does that include human variation, where everyone takes a different approach to improving overall improvement processes? What would happen if this variation were reduced?