You’re a company that has been outsourcing for the last 10 years. This makes good business sense, since you can’t find local or domestic sources that can make products or provide the services you need. Also, the savings of outsourcing can be substantial so this increases your revenue and is good for your shareholders.
Then, you get tweeted: President Trump calls your company out as being UnAmerican for outsourcing jobs. Continue reading
Introduction
We live in a world of consequences. Everything that we experience is a consequence of some action, decision, reaction and/or choice. For organizations the consequences of a choice, action, decision and/or reaction can cascade throughout the organization and extend to its “Value Chain” rippling through all the known touchpoints and the as yet, unidentified touchpoints. Continue reading
The data analysis course professor tended to focus on the practical application of statistics.
Avoiding statistical theory was fine with me. Learning statistics for me was on how to solve problems, optimize designs, and understanding data. Continue reading
Leadership is every bit an inward process as much as it is an outward process.
I’ve been lucky in my career. I’ve had the pleasure to work with some of the best Directors and Vice Presidents in several major technology companies. Listening to what kept them up at night, taught me a lot. Continue reading
Sigma, σ, is the Greek character we use to represent standard deviation. 6 σ represents the spread of data about the mean. For data with a normal distribution 6 σ includes 99.7% of the data.
The 6 σ design approach incorporates knowledge of the variation that will occur within the design such that the design has is unlikely to fail. Continue reading