During the industrial revolution, Frederick Taylor developed his Principles of Scientific Management, which have been the basis for industrial engineering for the last 100 years. However, with the...
Originally published in 1994, this three part series is an early publication regarding the use of stochastic tools to assess the business value of information technology and strategies for its depl...
What determines human behavior? How does genuine change happen in our world? What are the factors that determine human behavior? Which are the most powerful, and why? Why does most advocacy for soc...
The development of management theory is the culmination and the on-going integration of the sum total of the human experience. No one person is the father of management. Rather, management knowle...
A brief slide presentation with only 12 slides--on what is QA ? What QA is not? The importance of process control, 5 practical tips including,customer focus,training in Quality,training for the ski...
A brief article on loss of industries from the US and the steady downfall of industrial employment from the 1970's and the need to innovate in the next two decades.---just two pages only-- a wake-...
PDCA ("Plan-Do-Check-Act") is an iterative four-step problem-solving process typically used in quality control. It is also known as the Deming Cycle, Shewhart cycle, Deming Wheel, or Plan-Do-Study-...
Looks at the values associated with Deming's approach to quality and discussion around critique and learning organisations. Presented at second Management Theory at Work' conference at Lancaster Un...
When people do wrong, our first inclination is to punish the offender. We do not consider that our society could have prevented the problem in the first place by addressing the needs that children ...