May 2010

Ad Agency Uses Process Improvement to Wow Clients Like Kodak

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on May 9, 2010

I’ve been catching up on my reading and am sifting through a stack of magazines on my office shelf. In the March 2010 issue of Fast Company is a great article about an ad agency based in Rochester, NY – Partners + Napier – that applied process improvement to their business and realized amazing results. [...]

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Return From Heaven, With a Slight Amount of Turbulence

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on May 6, 2010

What a week! Let me start by saying that I haven’t had a vacation in many moons – and by that I mean at least seven years. So when someone says, “Hey, do you want to go to Kauai for six days?” I take a few long breaths to stop the panic attack that’s sure [...]

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Masters of Change

by Jean F. Meeks, Ph.D. on May 5, 2010

Inspiration for change comes in many different forms, but all it takes is one great change master to identify a need, find the tools, and harness the great power and force to conquer it. On April 22, 1970, U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin was that change master. Forty years ago, his passion for the [...]

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