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- Path: sparky!uunet!tcsi.com!hermes!miket
- From: miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.)
- Subject: Re: How does TQM set priorities? (was: When do we inspect [long ago])
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.234250.5690@tcsi.com>
- Keywords: Process
- Sender: news@tcsi.com
- Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
- References: <1992Dec25.081608.20676@mole-end.matawan.nj.us> <BzzB0s.MI@NeoSoft.com> <1992Dec29.144738.8171@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:42:50 GMT
- Lines: 52
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- In article <1992Dec29.144738.8171@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> shanks@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Mark Shanks) writes:
- >In article <BzzB0s.MI@NeoSoft.com> claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird) writes:
- >
- >>This is one of the foggy areas of Total Quality Management
- >>and Continuous Process Improvement
- >
- >AAACCKKKKKK!!!! Those words! Brrrr!!! How about "The Five Keys to
- >Self-Renewal"? Or "Zero Defects"? (Image here of me brandishing a
- >cross against the forces of darkness.)
- >
- >>for me; at what level
- >>are decisions made? Maybe "[t]he proper procedure" you
- >>describe is itself too parochial; maybe there should be an
- >>organization-wide initiative to address all kinds of lighting
- >>questions.
- >
- >Now I seriously hope you are in jest. This is PRECISELY the
- >cause of paralysis by process. Let's form a committee to study
- >the problem... Hell, all the guy wants is (the equivalent of)
- >more light on his work area. Why not "empower" this poor soul
- >and let him figure out how that should be done. Meanwhile,
- >everyone else continues working, instead of going to the
- >newly-formed "Lighting Improvement Committee" meetings. If
- >this person comes up with an approach that is beneficial to
- >everyone, give him a bonus and implement it.
- >
- >>When a Total Quality Manager starts off on Monday morning, and
- >>finds two initiatives he wants to pursue, on which one does he or
- >>she start first?
- >
- >Preferably one that, as the Hippocratic oath advises, "does no harm."
- >But if you are going to force a "Total Quality" manager on us, that
- >would be hoping for too much. :-\
- >
- >Mark Shanks
- >shanks@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com
-
- I can't resist pitching my $.02 against this wall.
-
- My girlfriend works in a retail setting, and they've had these management
- consultants in there for a while. Periodically (maybe once every two
- weeks) everybody is invited to small group meetings, with their choice
- of theme: "Communications" or "Accountability". The people who go to
- these two kinds of meetings form mutually-exclusive subsets of the
- employee pool. They tend to despise each other socially, too.
-
- Excellent scam on the part of these consultants, I think. "Yes, we're
- closing in on a solution -- could be any day now, it's hard to tell
- with these things...."
- ---
- Michael Turner
- miket@tcs.com
-