http://obriend.info/2009/03/21/first-principles/ Daragh O Brien on Information Quality Management & other issues Tue, 22 May 2012 08:02:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://obriend.info/2009/03/21/first-principles/comment-page-1/#comment-28330 Next: You’re a Leader - Lead | The DOBlog Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:14:12 +0000 http://obriend.info/?p=275#comment-28330 [...] In a previous post, I wrote about how much of what is being pointed to as the causes of some of our economic woes being grounded in weaknesses in the ‘conventional wisdom’ of management which had been questioned by Quality Management thinkers and which were described by Deming in particular as being “Deadly Diseases”.  I argued that, as part of any long term recovery, we would need to look to proven Quality Management principles for guidance and that the lessons of Quality Management (in particular where it is applied to information products and processes) need to be learned now as part of the necessary change. [...] [...] In a previous post, I wrote about how much of what is being pointed to as the causes of some of our economic woes being grounded in weaknesses in the ‘conventional wisdom’ of management which had been questioned by Quality Management thinkers and which were described by Deming in particular as being “Deadly Diseases”.  I argued that, as part of any long term recovery, we would need to look to proven Quality Management principles for guidance and that the lessons of Quality Management (in particular where it is applied to information products and processes) need to be learned now as part of the necessary change. [...]

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