Hello, You may also want to look at The Treasury Green Book on the Appraisal and Evaluation of Options at ...
Ivan Lax
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May 2, 2008 11:13 am
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Please note: Grp-Facl will shift to the new Group Facilitation Forum on May 15, 2008. Your subscription will be transferred to the new Forum unless you have...
Sandor Schuman
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May 5, 2008 1:23 pm
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Dr. Christine Hogan has done some excellent work on this topic. A downloadable workbook/ resource is available at ...
Carla Rogers EVOLVE c...
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May 6, 2008 5:22 am
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Correction: the IAF Asia conference on Aug 27-28 will be in Sarawak, Malaysia (rather than Bangkok, Thailand, as previously reported). Group Facilitation:...
Sandor Schuman
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May 8, 2008 2:22 pm
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LinkedIn ... Gerald, Linkedin found your email in my Gmail address book. We must be friends if you were in there, right? So here is my connection invitation...
Dutch Driver
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May 9, 2008 12:48 pm
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Why don't these emails get filtered off this list? Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T ... From: GRP-FACL automatic digest system <LISTSERV@...> Date:...
Lynda Baker
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May 10, 2008 1:07 pm
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You're right, since we've had a few of these inadvertent LinkedIn invitations, it would be a good idea to filter them out. I will forward this suggestion to...
Sandor Schuman
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May 10, 2008 6:24 pm
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Does anyone have any experience with the Japanese concept of "kaizen" or coninuous improvement? I'm particularly interested in how this has been or could be...
David Kaufman
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May 12, 2008 5:04 pm
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... I've done work that might be what you are talking about in government. I prefer to refer to it as continuous improvement rather than Kaizen, for a number...
Robert Bacal
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May 12, 2008 6:54 pm
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The launch of the IAF Group Facilitation Forum has been rescheduled to May 31st. Our apologies for this delay, but we need some additional time to get the new...
Tammy Adams
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May 12, 2008 8:03 pm
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David The timing of your question was quite soopky. More later. The main expert in the software ( knowledge worker ) space is David Anderson, formerly of...
Chris Matts
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May 12, 2008 8:54 pm
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Hi David, reader dear, I don't know any solution, but i do have some experience in the field. I've started my career in continuous improvement (kayzen, JIT,...
Jan Lelie
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May 12, 2008 9:08 pm
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Hi Chris, I've used kan bans too, optimal size is 1. The question is: 'when to release it?'. Kind regards, Jan Lelie -- Drs J.C. Lelie CPF (Jan) facilitator ...
Jan Lelie
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May 12, 2008 9:11 pm
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... David, there are many names for continuous improvement. Total Quality Management (TQM)is one of the earliest ones. The US Coast Guard started out with TQM...
Ned Ruete
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May 12, 2008 9:34 pm
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As I understand it, the distinction with Kaizen is that you focus on small improvements, which may be exactly what a governmental agency needs. They may feel...
Mary Jackson
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May 12, 2008 10:26 pm
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Tristan, from the description of your session, it sounds to me like you and the group were quite successful at discussing MANY "undiscussables": the group...
Rosa Zubizarreta
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May 12, 2008 10:32 pm
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... Ned, I'm not sure it's relevant, but I think we need to guard our use of language. I don't see the two phrases above as meaning the same thing. They could....
Robert Bacal
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May 12, 2008 10:44 pm
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Might check out Management Sciences for Health -- Sylvie Vriesendorp -- they have an approach applied to government health ministries. Jim Wiegel ... 401 North...
James Wiegel
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May 12, 2008 11:44 pm
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I work in a large Financial Services Company in the UK and we have been deploying Toyota's approach 6 years. Our approach builds on the basic priciples and...
Allan Mees
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May 13, 2008 9:58 am
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David, for the past three-four years the US Navy specifically Naval Sea Systems Command has worked to institute a concept called Lean/Six Sigma. This...
... In my experience, continuous improvement people are used to following Deming's control charts and data collection and having everyone understand what needs...
Ned Ruete
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May 13, 2008 4:27 pm
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My experience with most of the quality improvement tools in American business is that tendency of so many people to simply say, "We already did that" or that,...
Scott Simmerman
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May 13, 2008 4:27 pm
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Ned, Where does one go to obtain the training? Where do I learn more about it, how to teach it and if applicable to the group I'm working with obtain the...
Gary Boettcher
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May 13, 2008 5:34 pm
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... ahhh, there's the rub, and that's why we get paid the big bucks. The most complete materials I have found were the proprietary methodology we used as...
Ned Ruete
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May 13, 2008 9:44 pm
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Hi all, Following on to the debate on facilitating multicultural groups, I am reverting to cultural homogeneity: Is there anyone who has advice, tips or...
Hege Hermansen
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May 14, 2008 12:26 pm
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Listen list, "The essence of quality is co-operating and nothing else" (After Dr Deming. He goes on: 'it is co-operating that made America big, not...
Jan Lelie
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May 14, 2008 1:50 pm
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Buenos dias from Canada, Here is a good description of Kaizen in the blog of the International City Management Association posted yesterday. ...
Salazar, Carlos
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May 14, 2008 2:49 pm
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... Hash: SHA1 ... Hege, Have you looked at Fagan inspections and their derivatives (http://www.mfagan.com/process.html and ...
Bill Harris
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May 15, 2008 3:42 am
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... Hash: SHA1 ... Lots of folks, especially Ned and Jan, perhaps, have chimed in with resources, and I think they've all presented good stimuli. I have a...
Bill Harris
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May 15, 2008 3:58 am
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Tristan, It sounds like the group may have fallen into the trap of defining a 'Solution Statement In Disguise'. The solution statement being 'We need a new...
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