John Hunter

Author, facilitator, and CEO

John Hunter, CEO of CuriousCat.com, authored Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability (Leanpub, 2012). He authors two management blogs (Curious Cat Management Improvement blog, The W. Edwards Deming Institute blog) and other blogs on topics including investing, technology, and travel. Hunter’s career has been spent helping organizations increase customer delight using continual management improvement strategies. Since 1995 he has used the internet to improve the results of management improvement efforts in various roles including as a software development program manager. Through Curious Cat, Hunter manages more than 30 websites.

Fri, 11/30/2012 - 16:23

Quality Improvement vs. Instant Pudding Why do we have to ‘sell’ quality improvement initiatives?

Mon, 07/22/2019 - 12:03

I am amazed how difficult it is to convince organizations to adopt quality improvement practices. I look at organizations that I interact with and easily see systemic failures due to faults that can be corrected by adopting management improvement…

How to Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement CEOs are the last to know, but they shouldn’t be

Tue, 11/24/2015 - 00:00

I have discussed steps to take to build a culture of continuous improvement in numerous posts on my Curious Cat Management Improvement blog. What it boils down to is building a system that supports that culture. Your culture is the result, not your…

An Interview With Masaaki Imai The father of kaizen shares thoughts on gemba, Deming, Western companies, and more

Fri, 11/30/2012 - 16:23

Masaaki Imai is a consultant, author, and founder of the Kaizen Institute. The second edition of his book, Gemba Kaizen (McGraw-Hill Professional, 2012), was published in May. He agreed to an interview with The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog. The…