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Quality Management Tools
2008-06-10 19:50:00
Quality Management Tools [link] Operational Definitions - created by Navy Total Quality Leadership Office. 21 pages. Part of Basic Tools for Process Improvement Handbook [PDF] Adobe Acrobat Reader Brainstorming - created by Navy Total Quality Leadership Office. 19 pages. Part of Basic Tools for Process Improvement Handbook [PDF] Adobe Acrobat Reader Team Decision-Making ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quality Management Tools", url: "http://learnsigma.com/quality-management -tools/" });
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Smile - you?re already on camera!
2008-06-08 06:29:00
photo credit: chez_worldwide When historians look back on New Labour they may conclude that its worst sin was not mendacity or incompetence, but the way it destroyed privacy in this country. We are the most spied-upon society in Europe, with more CCTV cameras (an estimated 4.2 million ) than the rest of the EU combined. ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Smile - you’re already on camera!", url: "http://learnsigma.com/smile-youre-alread y-on-camera/" });
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Ex-presidents are as bad as Bush
2008-06-05 06:26:00
photo credit: Michael Heilemann To listen to the experts moaning on about America ’s mistakes in Iraq you’d think their previous record in the Middle East had been a triumph. What short memories people have: Jimmy Carter, for instance, now writes books condemning Americas foreign policies, yet he was the president who bungled the Iranian hostage crisis ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ex-presidents are as bad as Bush ", url: "http://learnsigma.com/ex-presidents-are- as-bad-as-bush/" });
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Deming?s Funnel Simulator
2008-06-03 18:25:00
photo credit: hyperboreal Dr. W Edwards Deming was an advocate of achieving Quality through Process Management. He has described the adverse effects of tampering with a stable process in his book titled ‘Out of the Crisis’. He demonstrated through the famous Funnel Experiment how adjustment of a stable process can lead to an increase in ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Deming’s Funnel Simulator ", url: "http://learnsigma.com/demings-funnel-sim ulator/" });

Bush is still wearing his running shoes
2008-06-03 03:12:00
Politicians are never judged in isolation as their popularity always depends on how well the other guy is doing. For example, Ronald Reagan had a favourite joke to illustrate the point. Two men are walking in the forest when a bear comes rushing towards them Seeing the first man bend down to put on his ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Bush is still wearing his running shoes", url: "http://learnsigma.com/bush-is-still-wear ing-his-running-shoes/" });
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Let Hitler speak
2008-05-31 03:06:00
Are some words so dangerous they must be locked away? The question is currently an issue of fierce debate in Germany where a leading historian has called for Adolf Hitler ’s anti-Semitic screed Mein Kampf (”My Struggle”) to be published openly for the first time since 1945. It is available for sale in Britain and the US, ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Let Hitler speak", url: "http://learnsigma.com/let-hitler-speak/" });
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Minitab Resources
2008-05-29 15:06:00
photo credit: Librarian by Day I encourage you to visit the resources section of the Minitab website. You’ll gain access to fantastic tutorials such as the following: Control Limits: Optimize the Performance of Your Control Charts Learn when you may want to set the control limits on your Control Charts and two simple ways to do it. Graphing Minitab’s ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Minitab Resources ", url: "http://learnsigma.com/minitab-resources/ " });

Are fatties lepers who cause global warming?
2008-05-28 02:12:00
We all know that drinking alcohol is both big and clever but it does sometime provoke a wee bit of violence, which doesn’t matter as long as you can fight, but it ultimately leads to weight problems. Think darts player. Fat people can’t catch a break these ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Are fatties lepers who cause global warming?", url: "http://learnsigma.com/are-fatties-lepers -who-cause-global-warming/" });
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Politics, corruption, accountability & stability
2008-05-25 02:09:00
This graph compares the average worldwide governance scores for nine regions spread across the globe. The scores range from -2.5 (lowest) to 2.5 (highest); here, OECD countries have the highest average, while the Former Soviet Union average ranks in the lower regions. Other regions evaluated include: Caribbean , Eastern Europe and the Baltics, Middle East ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Politics , corruption, accountability & stability", url: "http://learnsigma.com/politics-corruptio n-accountability-stability/" });
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In the Doomsday scenario, the UK pulls through
2008-05-22 02:06:00
Billions of people could be wiped out over the next century as a result of global warming - but those lucky enough to be on the British Isles have a pretty good chance of survival. So says the Gaia scientist Professor James Lovelock in his book The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "In the Doomsday scenario, the UK pulls through", url: "http://learnsigma.com/in-the-doomsday-sc enario-the-uk-pulls-through/" });
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Cheney is still on the dark side
2008-05-19 02:03:00
photo credit: Mr. Gunn “We have to work the dark side, if you will. We’ve got to spend time in the shadows.” So declared Dick Cheney five days after the 9/11 attacks. And the vice-president was as good as his word. Within months, Guantanamo was full of hooded prisoners, secret jails were popping up in former ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Cheney is still on the dark side", url: "http://learnsigma.com/cheney-is-still-on -the-dark-side/" });
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China - a repressive polluted regime
2008-05-14 13:58:00
photo credit: Zebra Pares How the world’s priorities have changed over China : not so long ago the US Congress was earnestly debating China’s human-rights record. Today all anyone cares about is that China’s economic wheels keep turning, so it goes on filling its shelves with our goods. Far from worrying about China’s repressive regime, foreign ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "China - a repressive polluted regime", url: "http://learnsigma.com/china-a-repressive -polluted-regime/" });
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The 25 threats facing Britain
2008-05-11 10:50:00
photo credit: yak23flora The world is changing fast - and we need to be prepared for the risks that may go hand in hand with technological advances. A team led by Professor Bill Sutherland of Cambridge University has drawn up a list of 25 potential threats to Britain , which includes the release of man-made viruses, ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The 25 threats facing Britain", url: "http://learnsigma.com/the-25-threats-fac ing-britain/" });
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Food miles are a form of protectionism
2008-05-10 10:50:00
photo credit: zarzoso The Soil Association’s decision to discriminate against “organic” food which is air-freighted into the country is just a form of old-style agricultural protectionism. As the Kenyan High Commissioner points out, carbon emissions from his country’s food producers are much less per vegetable than those of British organic farmers - even if you ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Food miles are a form of protectionism", url: "http://learnsigma.com/food-miles-are-a-f orm-of-protectionism/" });
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Why can?t the USA put their faith in an atheist?
2008-05-10 01:49:00
photo credit: rweir Pete Stark has broken the ultimate political taboo, as he came out of the closet, the veteran San Francisco Democrat recently became the first member of Congress to openly declare himself to be… an atheist!! By admitting he is not religious, Stark has, if nothing else, proven he has no ambitions for the ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Why can’t the USA put their faith in an atheist?", url: "http://learnsigma.com/why-cant-the-usa-p ut-their-faith-in-an-atheist/" });
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The food crisis: should we stop eating meat?
2008-05-08 10:50:00
photo credit: Jesse Gardner They’ve been noting in Egypt. And Mexico. And Indonesia. In Bangladesh 20,000 workers took to the streets of the capital, Dhaka, last week. In Haiti, where famine has reduced many to eating biscuits made from mud, a UN peacekeeper carrying food to his colleagues was dragged from his car and shot ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The food crisis: should we stop eating meat?", url: "http://learnsigma.com/the-food-crisis-sh ould-we-stop-eating-meat/" });
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A lesson in loss for suppliers
2008-05-06 09:32:00
photo credit: pixelhut Channel Five has been running an entertaining series called Breaking Into Tesco, in which entrepreneurial cooks, mentored by Royal Mail chairman Allan Leighton (a former Asda boss), are coached on how to pitch their ideas to the supermarket’s hard nosed buyers. What connects the contestants - including a man who has devised ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A lesson in loss for suppliers", url: "http://learnsigma.com/a-lesson-in-loss-f or-suppliers/" });
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Japan: Please admit to wartime atrocities
2008-05-03 21:39:00
The downfall of Japan s defence minister reminds us once again, that the country is incapable of facing up to its war record. Fumio Kyuma was forced to resign last week, after his claim that America had no alternative but to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki was met with ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Japan: Please admit to wartime atrocities", url: "http://learnsigma.com/japan-please-admit -to-wartime-atrocities/" });
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Oil is just a blip in time
2008-04-30 21:37:00
You don’t have to be a peak oil doom-monger to find the latest report from the International Energy Agency scary reading. It’s fair to say that current Western civilisation would not be possible without oil; this report predicts a supply crunch within five years, forcing prices up with predictably dire consequences. Dearer oil is obviously ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Oil is just a blip in time", url: "http://learnsigma.com/oil-is-just-a-blip -in-time/" });
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The Colombian soda war
2008-04-25 19:21:00
Colombia’s president Alvaro Uribe has been dancing to America’s tune thanks to an annual injection of $600m in US aid, he has beefed up Colombia’s anti-narcotics police, seized record tons of cocaine and extradited 520 drug traffickers to US jails Hey, this is all good news right? Erm, ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Colombian soda war", url: "http://learnsigma.com/the-colombian-soda -war/" });
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Shift Happens
2008-04-24 07:21:00
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George Monbiot - What is the tipping point?
2008-04-23 11:49:00
And… “Why are countries failing to act with any sense of urgency?” SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "George Monbiot - What is the tipping point?", url: "http://learnsigma.com/george-monbiot-wha t-is-the-tipping-point/" });
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Obesity - a weighty issue
2008-04-21 23:46:00
photo credit: Trinitas Imaging / Ooodit What’s the problem? In May of 2002, the World Health Organization announced a rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Remarkably, this occurred not only in affluent developed nations - but also among developing nations in Africa , the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, where malnutrition was once ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Obesity - a weighty issue", url: "http://learnsigma.com/obesity-a-weighty- issue/" });
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Minitab Folders
2008-04-20 11:46:00
Have you ever used Minitab and been overwhelmed by the amount of worksheets and graphs you have open at any one time? If so, then you need to use the following: The Project Manager All the worksheets, session commands, graphs and reports of a Minitab session constitute a Project. The Project Manager provides a means of viewing, ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Minitab Folders ", url: "http://learnsigma.com/minitab-folders/" });

SoP to solve a Rubik Cube in six-seconds
2008-04-19 10:20:00
The usefulness of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) have been proven in industry for decades. They are the documents for training and assessing the competence of an individual to perform a given task. Following the ?one best way’ philosophy here’s how you solve a Rubik Cube in six-seconds. [LINK] SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "SoP to solve a Rubik Cube in six-seconds", url: "http://learnsigma.com/sop-to-solve-a-rub ik-cube-in-six-seconds/" });
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Change blindness again
2008-04-18 20:29:00
I’m always interested in the concept of change blindness: the phenomenon where a person viewing a visual scene apparently fails to detect large changes in the scene. For change blindness to occur, the change in the scene typically has to coincide with some visual, disruption such as a saccade (eye movement) or a brief obscuration of ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Change blindness again", url: "http://learnsigma.com/change-blindness-a gain/" });
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This explains everything: Bush is off the wagon
2008-04-18 20:07:00
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Tokyo Commuter alarm clock shows train times
2008-04-14 21:11:00
Boing Boing reports that the Tokyo Commuter Alarm Clock has dials for the major Tokyo rail lines. The clock is updated wirelessly in real-time with the position of trains on each line, so you know exactly how long you have to catch your subway. Link (via OhGizmo) If only we had the same level of customer ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Tokyo Commuter alarm clock shows train times", url: "http://learnsigma.com/tokyo-commuter-ala rm-clock-shows-train-times/" });
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Why personal carbon trading works
2008-04-13 09:11:00
With climate change now an increasingly important concern for policy-makers, can personal carbon trading make a difference? I think so and here’s why. Personal carbon trading is an idea whose time has come. You can’t expect it to solve problems of inequity which already exist in the ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Why personal carbon trading works", url: "http://learnsigma.com/why-personal-carbo n-trading-works/" });
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Climate-change lets malaria reach Kenya?s highlands
2008-04-11 21:10:00
photo credit: PQz Rising temperatures allow Africa’s biggest killer to spread to the highlands, where it once was rare. In the central mountain regions of Africa once too cool for the carrier mosquitoes, millions are suddenly at risk. In Kenya ’s western highlands, maximum annual temperatures over the last 20 years are up about 1.8 degrees. Since ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Climate -change lets malaria reach Kenya’s highlands", url: "http://learnsigma.com/warming-lets-malar ia-reach-kenyas-highlands/" });
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