Variation is ubiquitous and affects teams in all aspects of team activity from formation to team retirement. Once source of variability in teams is diversity. In fact, one of the key benefits of teamwork is that people of varying backgrounds, skills, and interests will find more robust solutions to problems than homogeneous groups. Of course, [...]
Virtually all improvement efforts involve the use of teams. Most problems are cross-departmental and even problems within a department have many facets and are best addressed by a group of people with differing perspectives. Thus, the setting up and management of these team efforts effectively is a key to successful improvement efforts. Deming gave us a [...]
I have not been particularly attentive to this blog. I have been relocating. As everyone knows, moving has a way of consuming one’s attention.I’m getting settled slowly (see my computer’s back up!) and will be adding content in a few days.Hope you will be patient.
