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Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections offers a topical directory of management improvement related sites: Deming, lean manufacturing, design of experiments, health care, six sigma, SPC and more.

Our Favorite Sites

Clemson University Continuous Quality Improvement     Large site with an archive of over 800 files on Quality searchable by keyword. It houses the Community Quality Electronic Network, Deming Electronic Network and Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site.

Superfactory - great resource for lean manufacturing articles. Home of the great evolving excellence blog.

Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin-Madison   reports by experts including: W. Edwards Deming, George Box, Kaoru Ishikawa, Brian Joiner and Peter Scholtes.

Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections: hundreds of management improvement articles, career connections, bookstore, Management Encyclopedia, bios of quality leaders and Management Improvement Blog.

W. Edwards Deming Institute

Blogs

Curious Cat Management Improvement blog - Thoughts on management improvement, customer focused continuous improvement, lean manufacturing, six sigma, Deming... by John Hunter.

Lean blog - excellent blog focused on lean manufacturing and lean thinking. Includes great podcasts on lean topics.

Panta Rei - another excellent lean manufacturing blog by Jon Miller.

Got Boondoggle - lean manufacturing by Mike Wroblewski

More blogs can be found with the Curious Cat Management Blog directory.

More valuable management sites Use the search option (to the right) to find many more resources.

American Statistical Association - Quality and Productivity Section

ASQ

Center for Quality of Management with full text of their Journal and more.

Chaordic Commons

Crazy about Constraints Theory of Constraints

Curious Cat Management Improvement Bookstore     Popular, as well as hard to find, management books available online at a discount I manage the bookstore and this guide - John

Deming Forum, United Kingdom.

Deming Electronic Network   Articles and files, archive of DEN email list. Excellent site, definitely the first site to try for Deming info.

Statistical Design of Experiments Project to teach high school students. Very good information for anyone who is serious about using data to make improvements.

Gemba Kaizen (Japan) - large site with a great deal of information on an important topic in improvement.

In2InThinking Network

iSixSigma - large portal with many articles, online discussion etc.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement - Donald M. Berwick, President and CEO. Excellent organization. The site includes some articles and reports as well as details on projects and conferences.

John Grout's Mistakeproofing Site

Juran Institute

Madison Area Quality Improvement Network

Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site   library, links to online resources

QFD Institute, Quality Function Deployment also know as the house of Quality

Quality Digest Online Magazine, includes past issues with articles by Donald Wheeler, A. Blanton Godfrey...

SPC Press   An excellent source for seminars. They also have some articles online by Don Wheeler and others.

Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Among other things, home of the Capability Maturity Models

Society for Organizational Learning

John Sterman's Publications and Research Projects - Director, MIT System Dynamics Group. Includes a number of papers available online.

Strategos - lean manufacturing site with short articles on history and lean topics.

Sustained Continuous Improvement for Better Schools by Ivan Webb, Australia.

Symphony Technology, India

Toyota Production System - toyota.com

Mailing Lists and more blogs
DEN   Deming Electronic Network       Moderated     view archive
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A must for those interested in the implications of W. Edwards Deming's ideas.  Stimulating discussion of the philosophy and implementation issues.

Agile Management Blog - Thoughts on management, software, constraints and agility by David J. Anderson

Statistical and Scientific Thinking blog Topics include applying Deming's ideas and statistical methods.

Focused Performance Business Blog - containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective by Frank Patrick

IndyASQ Conversations - Blog by the Indianapolis ASQ section.

Public Sector Network       archive
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TeamNet     Research on teams         very active       related website
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The list for issues relating to all types of teams.

  


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