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Management Books
The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production
James P. Womack
Daniel T. Jones
Daniel Roos
Based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology five-million-dollar, fourteen-country International Motor Vehicle Program's five year study on the future of the worldwide auto industry.
Fourth Generation Management: The New Business Consciousness
Brian Joiner
An excellent book for those who wish to begin the transformation to "Fourth Generation Management" and for the experienced as well. We give this well written and easy to follow book this book our highest recommendation.
Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation: 2nd Edition
Thomas Nolan
Lloyd P. Provost
Ron Moen
An excellent handbook on how to use experiments to learn about your organization and how to use that knowledge to improve your organization. The book integrates Dr. Deming's ideas and
design of experiments thinking
. Forward by W. Edwards Deming.
3rd edition
is on the way.
Human Side of Enterprise: 25th Anniversary Printing
Douglas Mc Gregor
Originally published in 1960. Great book. A classic that is still very worthwhile.
The Leader's Handbook: Making Things Happen, Getting Things Done
Peter R. Scholtes
Absolutely wonderful book - we give it our highest recommendation.
Ackoff's Best: Timeless Observations on the Life of Business
Russell L. Ackoff
From managing teams, maximizing the effectiveness of information systems, and problem solving, to creativity, crime, and the role of the corporation in a democratic society, these writings are a cornucopia of insights, observations, and powerful lessons that will help you improve the effectiveness of your organization.
The Art of Problem Solving Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables:
Russell L. Ackoff
Shows how to develop an understanding of the art of creative thinking and design creative solutions. Based on real problems faced by real managers.
Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos
Donald J. Wheeler
An excellent guide to what you must understand about variation to effectively improve your organization.
Breakthrough Performance:
William Scherkenbach
Deming's Road to Continual Improvement is brought to life on this CD-ROM with audio and video illustrations.
The Deming Dimension:
Henry R. Neave
An excellent overview of the Deming philosphy that is easier to follow that Deming's own books. Provides a valuable historical perspective. Does a good job of explaining the underlining principles of Deming's philosophy.
Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead
Tom Coens
Mary Jenkins
They take on this difficult topic well. Scholtes, Kohn and others strongly recommend this book.
The New Economics: For Industry, Government, Education
W. Edwards Deming
Second Edition (reprint). The best of Deming's books for learning about his system for management. Packed with great thoughts but not as easy to read as the best books. This is a great book, but often it is best for managers already committed to finding new ideas.
Out of the Crisis:
W. Edwards Deming
A classic but not an easy book to read. Packed with good ideas that still have great merit. New paperback printing (2000).
Team Handbook: Third Edition
Peter R. Scholtes
Brian Joiner
Barbara J. Streibel
Most recent update to the management classic.
Six Sigma Beyond the Factory Floor:: Deployment Strategies for Financial Services, Health Care, and the Rest of the Real Economy
Ronald D. Snee
Roger W. Hoerl
. The book is authored by two of the leading practictioners and they do an excellent job of providing their experience and insight on implimenting Six Sigma.
Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods, 2nd Edition
Forrest W. Breyfogle Iii
A very good overview of Six Sigma -
our choice for those interested in six sigma
. We also suggest
Statistics for Experimenters
as a resource.
Competing for the Future:
Gary Hamel
C.K. Prahalad
Hamel and Prahalad caution that complacent managers who get too comfortable in doing things the way they've always done will see their companies fall behind.
Lean Solutions: How Companies and Customers Can Create Value and Wealth Together
James P. Womack
Daniel T. Jones
"few companies today see consumption as a process -- a series of linked goods and services, all of which must occur seamlessly for the consumer to be satisfied. Buying a home computer, for example, involves researching, purchasing, integrating..."
The Innovators Solution:
Clayton Christensen
Michael E. Raynor
Workplace Management: Taiichi Ohno
Taiichi Ohno
"If you insist on blindly calculating individual costs and waste time insisting that this is profitable of that is not profitable, you will just increase the cost of your low volume products. For this reason there are many cases in this world where companies will discontinue car models that are actually profitable, but are money losers according to their calculations. Likewise, there are cases where companies sell a lot of model that they think is profitable but in fact are only increasing their loses." page 32
Toyota Talent: Developing Your People the Toyota Way
Jeffrey Liker
David Meier
Toyota Talent walks you through the rigorous methodology used by this global powerhouse to grow high-performing individuals from within. Beginning with a review of Toyota's landmark approach to developing people, the authors illustrate the critical importance of creating a learning and teaching culture in your organization. They provide specific examples necessary to train employees in all areas-from the shop floor to engineering to staff members in service organizations-and show you how to support and encourage every individual to reach his or her top potential. Toyota Talent provides you with the inside knowledge you need to * Identify your development needs and create a training plan * Understand the various types of work and how to break complicated jobs into teachable skills * Set behavioral expectations by properly preparing your workplace * Recognize and develop potential trainers within your workforce * Effectively educate non-manufacturing employees and members of the staff * Develop internal Lean Manufacturing experts
Improving Almost Anything:
George E. P. Box
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Atul Gawande
Jason Fried
David Heinemeier Hansson
Great book by the founders of 37 signals on how to get to work and avoid the distractions of bad management practices. Take a new look at how to work without the outdated traditions.
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
David Anderson
The book provides specific and useful guidance to those attempting to adopt kanban management in software development. The books is very well written and presents the material in a very easy to digest manner. It is so packed with information it is very difficult to mine even a significant portion of the value in one read. The organization allows for easy reference as you need to focus on any specific topic to find that topic and get an excellent review in minutes.
The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America
Warren Buffett
Great book in Buffett's own words on investing and management.
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose
Tony Hsieh
Pay new employees $2000 to quit
. Make customer service the entire company, not just a department. Focus on company culture as the #1 priority. Apply research from the science of happiness to running a business. Help employees grow both personally and professionally. Seek to change the world. Oh, and make money too. Sound crazy? It's all standard operating procedure at Zappos.com, the online retailer that's doing over $1 billion in gross merchandise sales every year."
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results
Mike Rother
"Toyota Kata gets to the essence of how Toyota manages continuous improvement and human ingenuity, through its improvement kata and coaching kata. Mike Rother explains why typical companies fail to understand the core of lean and make limited progress—and what it takes to make it a real part of your culture." —Jeffrey K. Liker, bestselling author of The Toyota Way
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
John Kotter
The book presents a fresh and amusing fictional narrative showing attack strategies in action. It then provides several specific counterstrategies for each basic category the authors have defined. How to win the support your idea need to deliver valuable results? Understand the generic attack strategies that naysayers and obfuscators deploy time and time again. Then engage these adversaries with tactics tailored to each strategy. By "inviting in the lions" to critique your idea--and being prepared for them--you'll capture busy people's attention, help them grasp your proposal's value, and secure their commitment to implementing the solution.
Leading Change:
John Kotter
Kotter emphasizes a comprehensive eight-step framework that can be followed by executives at all levels. Kotter advises those who would implement change to foster a sense of urgency within the organization. "A higher rate of urgency does not imply everpresent panic, anxiety, or fear." Twenty-first century business change must overcome overmanaged and underled cultures.
Systems Thinking for Curious Managers: with 40 New Management f-Laws
Russell L. Ackoff
Herbert J. Addison
Jamshid Gharajedaghi
Finished just before Professor Ackoff's death late in 2009, Systems Thinking for Curious Managers opens the door to a joined up way of thinking about things that has profoundly influenced thinkers and doers in the fields of business, politics, economics, biology, psychology. Although Systems Thinking was 'invented' early in the 20th century, even Peter Senge's best-selling "The Fifth Discipline" (Systems Thinking is the fifth discipline) failed to popularize the term. But now, in business and academia, in the public sector and in the search for solutions to the environmental problems we face, Systems Thinking is being talked about everywhere. This timely book presents 40 more of Russ Ackoff's famously witty and incisive f-Laws (or flaws) of business - following on from his 2007 collection "Management f-Laws". All those in this collection are new and previously unpublished. Andrew Carey's extended introduction ties these f-Laws into the rest of Ackoff's work and gives the reader new to Systems Thinking a practical guide to the implications of Systems Thinking for organisations and managers.
Gemba Walks:
Jim Womack
This book complies Womack's essays on the practice of lean and adds some additional context to the essays.
Toyota Under Fire: Lessons for Turning Crisis into Opportunity
Jeffrey Liker
Toyota Under Fire, 2011 Shingo Prize Winner, takes you beyond the headlines and into the offices and factories of Toyota to reveal the truth behind the company's highly publicized and controversial recall of over 10 million vehicles.
The Frontiers of Management:
Peter F. Drucker
Maslow on Management:
Abraham Maslow
In 1962, Maslow spent the summer at an electronics factory that was one of the first to try giving workers a say in organizing production. He watched and kept a journal. The book was republished with extensive commentaries as Maslow on Management in 1998. Some of Maslow on Management is, as Warren Bennis writes in the foreword, "hilariously innocent."
The Lean Startup:
Eric Ries
Great book that is also very popular in general management circles and software development circles (the software development and startup areas overlap so much today that this is no surprise). The book focuses on applying lean thinking ideas in an entrepreneurial setting. So the book focuses on quick success and customer focus. Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or those in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common is a mission to penetrate that fog of uncertainty to discover a successful path to a sustainable business. The Lean Startup approach fosters companies that are both more capital efficient and that leverage human creativity more effectively. Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on "validated learning,†rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want. It enables a company to shift directions with agility and quickly. Rather than wasting time creating elaborate business plans, The Lean Startup offers entrepreneurs - in companies of all sizes - a way to test their vision continuously, to adapt and adjust before it's too late. Ries provides a scientific approach to creating and managing successful startups in a age when companies need to innovate more than ever.
Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best... and Learn from the Worst
Bob Sutton
If you are a boss who wants to do great work, what can you do about it? Good Boss, Bad Boss is devoted to answering that question. Stanford Professor Robert Sutton weaves together the best psychological and management research with compelling stories and cases to reveal the mindset and moves of the best (and worst) bosses.
The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance
Gerald J. Langley
Ron Moen
Thomas Nolan
Cliff Norman
Lloyd Provost
Second edition of this great handbook for process improvement. The best resource for applying the plan-do-study-act cycle to improvement.
Highly recommended
Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability
John Hunter
The book provides an overview for viewing management as a system. It is largely based on those of Dr. Deming, along with natural outgrowths or extensions of his ideas such as lean manufacturing and agile software development. To achieve great results there must be a continual focus on achieving results today and building enterprise capacity to maximize results over the long term. Managers have many management concepts, pactices and tools available to help them in this quest. The challenge is to create and continually build and improve a management system for the enterprise that leads to success. The book provides a framework for management thinking. With this framework the practices and tools can be applied to build enterprise capacity and improve efficiency and effectiveness.
Management f-Laws: How Organizations Really Work
Russell L. Ackoff
Herbert J. Addison
A full collection of more than 80 of Russell Ackoff's management f-laws: the uncomfortable truths about how organizations really work, what's wrong with the way we design and manage businesses, what makes managers tick... and how we can make things work better.
The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality
W. Edwards Deming
Joyce Orsini
The book is filled with articles, papers, lectures, and notes touching on a wide range of topics, but which focus on Deming's overriding message: quality and operations are all about systems, not individual performance; the system has to be designed so that the worker can perform well. Published in cooperation with The W. Edwards Deming Institute, The Essential Deming captures Deming's life's worth of thinking and writing. Dr. Orsini provides expert commentary throughout, delivering a powerful, practical guide to superior management. With The Essential Deming, you have the rationale, insight, and best practices you need to transform your organization.
An Accidental Statistician: The Life and Memories of George E. P. Box
George E. P. Box
From early childhood to a celebrated career in academia and industry, acclaimed statistician George E.P. Box offers personal insights and a first-hand account of his professional accomplishments in this insightful memoir. It features thoughts from more than a dozen researchers and practitioners on how Box shaped their careers; previously unpublished photos from Box's personal collection; and Forewords written by two of Box's closest colleagues and confidants. An Accidental Statistician is a charming, intimate account of a great intellect's life that will appeal to math and engineering professionals.
Management Articles
Small Business Guidebook to Quality Management
The aim of this guidebook is to help small businesses make the transition to a quality culture. While the focus of the guidebook is small businesses the information is helpful to anyone transforming and continually improving their organization.
Leaders of People: Some are Wonderful, Some are Clueless. The Rest are Somewhere In Between.
Peter R. Scholtes
Excellent short article by the author of the Leader's Handbook and the Team Handbook.
Transformation and Redesign at the White House Communications Agency
March Laree Jacques
Originally published by the
American Society for Quality
in the Quality Management Journal, Volume 6, Issue 3, 1999.
Dee Hock on Management
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Dee Hock
Absolutely great - definitely read the article
. Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
Dee Hock on Organizations
M. Mitchell Waldrop
Dee Hock
"An organization's success has enormously more to do with clarity of a shared purpose, common principles and strength of belief in them than to assets, expertise, operating ability, or management competence, important as they may be."
So What's System[s] Thinking
Ian Bradbury
Brief article introducing two key ideas in systems thinking: interdependence and the separation of cause and effect in space and time.
In the Beginning, There Were Deming and Juran
Phil Landesberg
Originally published in the Journal of Quality and Participation. A nice (very short) look back on the lives and ideas of Deming and Juran with the aim of encouraging us to learn from their work.
Does anybody give a hoot about profit?
W. Edwards Deming
Henry R. Neave
Dr W. Edwards Deming gave a short presentation to some 25 executives from major European companies. This document is a transcript prepared and edited by Henry Neave.
Using Quality to Develop an Internet Resource
John Hunter
The article provides guidance to help those responsible for managing the application of internet technology to improve the performance of organizations.
William G. Hunter: An Innovator and Catalyst for Quality Improvement
George E. P. Box
This is the text of a talk given at the Speakers' Dinner at the Sixth Annual William G. Hunter Conference on Quality in Madison, Wisconsin, on June 2, 1993. In it, George Box recalls Bill Hunter's pivotal role in the birth of the quality movement in the c
The Next 25 Years in Statistics
William Hill
William G. Hunter
(with contributions by Joseph W. Duncan, A. Blanton Godfrey, Brian L. Joiner, Gary C. McDonald, Charles G. Pfeifer, Donald W. Marquardt, and Ronald D. Snee). A transformation of the American style of management has already begun; in order for it to succee
Dr. Demings 1950 Lecture to Japanese Top Management
"In 1950, Dr. Deming gave a lecture to 80% of the top management people in Japan. What follows is a English translation of the original Japanese transcript. John Dowd made this happen a few years back and has agreed to share it with the Deming Community."
A Day with Dr. Russel L. Ackoff
Russell L. Ackoff
Highly Recommended
- Video of presentation to the Chicago-Kent College of Law.
"Among the topics Dr. Ackoff discussed during the workshop were:
- The history and application of systems thinking
- How do social systems allow us to understand and overcome long term problems in today's environment?
- How can you effect change within the system in which you play a role?"
A Systemic Approach for Improving An Organization - That Makes a Difference to the Customer
Dave Nave
"Management's job in the area of improvement is to create and facilitate an environment for learning and cooperation. One area to start is to remove policies and barriers that inhibit people from doing a good job. At the same time, encourage communication...
A Brief Guide to Interactive Planning and Idealized Design
Russell L. Ackoff
"Interactive planning is directed at creating the future. It is based on the belief that an organization's future depends at least as much on what it does between now and then, as on what is done to it. Therefore, this type of planning consists of the design of a desirable present and the selection or invention of ways of approximating it as closely as possible. It creates its future by continuously closing the gap between where it is at any moment of time and where it would most like to be."
Improving Problem Solving
Ian Bradbury
A good overview of common problem solving practices. The report also includes advice on how to improve results in you organization though problem solving and system improvement.
Managing Our Way to Economic Success: Two Untapped Resources
William G. Hunter
"American organizations could compete much better at home and abroad if they would learn to tap the potential information inherent in all processes and the creativity inherent in all employees."
Doing More With Less in the Public Sector: A Progress Report from Madison, Wisconsin
William G. Hunter
Jan O'neill
Carol Wallen
"The new quality improvement ideas can help public officials combat the effects of decreasing budgets just as they help private businesses increase productivity." Published in Quality Progress, July 1987.
TPS vs. Lean and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Art Smalley
"In every piece of TPS literature from Toyota, this stated aim is mixed in with the twin production principles of Just in Time (make and deliver the right part, in the right amount, at the right time), and Jidoka (build in quality at the process), as well as the notion of continuous improvement by standardization and elimination of waste in all operations to improve quality, cost, productivity, lead-time, safety, morale and other metrics as needed. This clear objective has not substantially changed since the first internal TPS training manual was drafted over thirty years ago."
Thinking About the Future
Russell L. Ackoff
"My preoccupation is with where we would ideally like to be right now. Knowing this, we can act now so as constantly to reduce the gap between where we are and where we want to be. Then, to a large extent, the future is created by what we do now."
A Little Book of F-laws: 13 common sins of management
Russell L. Ackoff
Laws include: The more time managers spend trying to get rid of what they don.t want, the less likely they are to get what they do want; Managers who don.t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.
Great, highly recommended
The Role of Leadership in Software Development
Mary Poppendieck
"In this 90-minute talk from the Agile2007 conference, Lean software thought leader Mary Poppendieck reviewed 20th century management theories, including Toyota and Deming, and went on to talk about 'the matrix problem', alignment, waste cutting, planning
Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method
George E. P. Box
Explores the implications raised when Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is considered, as was originally intended as a statistical technique for the catalysis of iterative learning.
The Top 10 Titans of TPS
Jon Miller
"1. Henry Ford was the founder of the Ford Motor Company. He revolutionized repetitive manufacturing of automobiles through standardization of parts, the moving assembly line and continuous improvement or product and process. Inspired imitation by Toyoda.
Lean Thinking and Management
John Hunter
"The biggest thing I think we need to learn from this is that improving management is not easy. The concepts may seem simple but most of us can look around and see much more
Dilbert Boss behavior
than lean thinking behavior. And the gap between those two types of behavior seems to rise as you go 'up' the organization chart."
The Trouble with Incentives: They Work
Gipsie Ranney
"There may be cases in which incentives work only as intended, but I suspect they are relatively rare. The trouble is that we are usually dealing with complex systems (people and organizations) that may behave not at all like our myths would predict...
Dangers of Forgetting the Proxy Nature of Data
John Hunter
"We use data to act as a proxy for some results of the system. Often people forget that the desired end result is not for the number to be improved but for the situation to be improved. We hope, if the measure improves the situation will have improved..."
The Relentless Contrarian
Peter Drucker
what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There's no excuse for it. No justification. No explanation. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we'll pay a very nasty price.
Jeff Bezos Interview
Jeff Bezos
"I think one thing I find very motivating -- and I think this is probably a very common form of motivation or cause of motivation is, I love people counting on me, and so, you know, today it's so easy to be motivated, because we have millions of customers...
Bring Lean to Your Sales Team
Jamie Flinchbaugh
"Another example is experimentation and reflection. By teaching the fundamentals of Plan-Do-Check-Act, the sales team can test out new ideas, messages and techniques with rigor. They can establish a common means by which to experiment, and ultimately to share best practices. The third step is to work on processes that cross boundaries. Many processes that go into product development, manufacturing or finance begin in sales at some point. These process are often broken, or at least inefficient. Lean can connect them, but it will require collaboration."
Why I Sold Zappos
Tony Hsieh
"Amazon tries to deliver a great customer experience is by offering low prices, whereas at Zappos we don't try to compete on price. If Amazon gets a lot of customer service calls, it will try to figure out why -- maybe there's something confusing about the product description -- and then it will try to fix the problem so that it can reduce the number of phone calls, which keeps prices low. But at Zappos, we want people to call us... But as I talked to Jeff, I realized that there were similarities between our companies, too. Amazon wants to do what is best for its customers -- even, it seemed to me, at the expense of short-term financial performance. Zappos has the same goal. We just have a different philosophy about how to do it."
12 Things Good Bosses Believe
Bob Sutton
"My success — and that of my people — depends largely on being the master of obvious and mundane things, not on magical, obscure, or breakthrough ideas or methods."
Jeff Bezos's mission: Compelling small publishers to think big
Jeff Bezos
"I would hope people would say that Amazon is earth's most customer-centric company, and that we work backwards from customers. Many companies sort of look at what their skills are and they work forward from their skills. They say this is what we're good at, and this is what we'll do. It's a very different approach from saying here is what our customers need, and we will learn whatever skills we need. ... the key is that the company has to experiment, and what you want to try and do is reduce the cost of experimentation so you can do as many experiments per unit time as possible ... and they're not experiments if you know they're going to work."
Metrics and Software Development
John Hunter
"I find looking at outcome measures (to measure overall effectiveness) and process measures (for viewing specific parts of the system 'big picture') the most useful strategy. The reason for process measures is not to improve those results alone. But those process measures can be selected to measure key processes within the system..."
How to Apply Japanese Company-Wide Quality Control in Other Countries
Kaoru Ishikawa
Kaoru Ishikawa highlights how to improve performance based on 20 years of experience visiting countries all over the world to give consult on quality control implementation.
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
Paul Graham
"There are two types of schedule, which I'll call the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule. The manager's schedule is for bosses. It's embodied in the traditional appointment book, with each day cut into one hour intervals. ... When you're operating on the maker's schedule, meetings are a disaster. A single meeting can blow a whole afternoon, by breaking it into two pieces each too small to do anything hard in."
Comparing Lean Principles to the 14 Toyota Principles
"Toyota Principle #1: Base Your Management Decisions on a Long-Term Philosophy, Even at the Expense of Short-Term Financial Goals. ... Stopping to fix problems puts an organization in a systematic problem solving method (Lean Principle #4) so that bad quality is not passed on and variation is reduced from the system."
An Introduction to Deming's Management Ideas
Peter R. Scholtes
An Introduction to Deming's Management Teaching and Philosophy by Peter Scholtes – webcast from the Annual W. Edwards Deming Institute conference in Madison, Wisconsin, November 9th, 2008.
William Considine embraces Lean Six Sigma to improve Akron Children's Hospital
"before it brought out the hammers, it asked members of the department and of the hospital's Lean Six Sigma team to review the problem. Turns out, a simple redesign of the processes and space solved the problem. No space added, no employees added, and $3.5 million saved. ... f your child needed an MRI two years ago, the waiting list at Akron Children's was about 25 to 28 days. Through discussion with department employees and dissection of the workload, the hospital was able to add 35 MRI tests a week, dropping the wait time to three days or less."
Warren Buffett's Letters To Berkshire Shareholders
Warren Buffett
Every Investor should read these.
Letters going back to 1995 give you insight into Warren Buffett's ideas on investing, the economy and business.
Who Really Cooks the Books?
Warren Buffett
"For many years, I've had little confidence in the earnings numbers reported by most corporations. I'm not talking about Enron and WorldCom - examples of outright crookedness. Rather, I am referring to the legal, but improper, accounting methods used by chief executives to inflate reported earnings. The most flagrant deceptions have occurred in stock-option accounting and in assumptions about pension-fund returns. The aggregate misrepresentation in these two areas dwarfs the lies of Enron and WorldCom."
Inside the secret world of Trader Joe's
"All of that can lead to a better customer experience. A ringing bell instead of an intercom signals that more help is needed at the registers. Registers don't have conveyor belts or scales, and perishables are sold by unit instead of weight, speeding up checkout. Crew members aren't told the margins on products, so placement decisions are made based not on profits but on what's best for the shopper. Every employee works all aspects of the store, and if you ask where the roasted chestnuts are he'll walk you over instead of just saying 'aisle five.' Want to know what they taste like? He can probably tell you, and he might even open the bag on the spot for you to try."
Nutrifood Indonesia: Manufacturing an Ethical Workplace
"we reviewed a set of 22 video tapes about the Deming Management method. My daughter, Yul (Julianti Darmawan Swecker), who was working at Nutrifood at the time as corporate secretary and HRD manager, translated and summarized the content of this series and produced leadership training material for our managers."
Innovation Democracy: W.L. Gore's Original Management Model
Gary Hamel
"Was it possible to build a company with no hierarchy—where everyone was free to talk with everyone else? How about a company where there were no bosses, no supervisors, no managers and no vice presidents?... Could you create a company with no 'core' business, one that was as focused on creating the future as on preserving the past? The answers to each of these questions was an emphatic "Yes!" And Gore quickly became a model for both organizational and product innovation (not to mention a remarkable business success)."
Create a System That Lets People Take Pride in Their Work
John Hunter
"Using the term implies that it one person empowers another person. This is not the correct view. Instead we each play a role within a system. Yes there are constraints on your actions based on the role you are playing. Does a security guard empower the CEO to enter the building? ... You don't need to think about empowering people if you have a system that lets people take pride in what they do. If you think you need to empower staff, instead fix the system that requires you to think they are in need of empowerment."
How do you know when do to an A3, and when to just solve the problem
Tracey Richardson
"If there was a defect that got past an area/department and to the customer, this is unacceptable and should be counter-measured temporary (stop the bleeding) to ensure nothing else 'flows out' as well as finding the permanent countermeasure (using PDCA) (again this is all initiated by the plant manager--they should be responsible at this level and gather the resources necessary, and involving their people to ensure this will not happen again and learn from it for the the next A3)."
Putting Performance Reviews On Probation
Samuel Culbert
Article and NPR radio show (30 minutes). "It's time to finally put the performance review out of its misery. This corporate sham is one of the most insidious, most damaging, and yet most ubiquitous of corporate activities. Everybody does it, and almost everyone who's evaluated hates it. It's a pretentious, bogus practice that produces absolutely nothing that any thinking executive should call a corporate plus."
The Equally Important "Respect for People†Principle
Bob Emiliani
"The 'Respect for People' principle encompasses all key stakeholders: employees, suppliers, customers, investors, and communities. Thus, rather than representing a single dyad, the 'Respect for People' principle is a multilateral expression of the need for balanced, mutually respectful relationships, cooperation, and co-prosperity with these key stakeholders."
Knowledge workers are the new capitalists
Peter Drucker
"knowledge workers are highly mobile within their specialism. They think nothing of moving from one university, one company or one country to another, as long as they stay within the same field of knowledge. There is a lot of talk about trying to restore knowledge workers' loyalty to their employing organisation, but such efforts will get nowhere. Knowledge workers may have an attachment to an organisation and feel comfortable with it, but their primary allegiance is likely to be to their specialised branch of knowledge."
Respect for People
Art Smalley
"The fifth item of my list pertains to development of employee talent over time. Respect for people means developing their latent skills in both on the job and off the job training. It is easy to invest money in new technology, software, or equipment. It takes time, effort, and planning to invest in employee skills development. Canned training programs and Powerpoint slide presentations do not do the job."
Leading vs. Managing: A False Choice
Bob Sutton
"I am not rejecting the distinction between leadership and management, but I am saying that the best leaders do something that might properly be called a mix of leadership and management. At a minimum, they lead in a way that constantly takes into account the importance of management. Meanwhile, the worst senior executives use the distinction between leadership and management as an excuse to avoid the details they really have to master to see the big picture and select the right strategies."
Operational Excellence: From Fragmented Vocation to Principle-Driven Profession
Steven Spear
"Be it lean, six sigma, lean six sigma, business process excellence, reengineering, or TPS, the common objective is creating substantial and sustainable competitive advantage by managing the internal operations of organizations—across the spectrum of development, design, and delivery—to create exceptional differentials in performance across the dimensions of quality, cost, reliability, responsiveness, security, and agility."
Don't Treat People Like You Want to be Treated
John Hunter
"You should treat people how they want to be treated, not how you want to be treated. "
Jim Womack on How Toyota Rose and Fell
Jim Womack
"He argued that rapid expansion was leaving Toyota short of experienced managers, and it would fail if they reverted to modern-management mentality and didn't learn lean principles. If that happens, 'Toyota will become just another company.'"
Actionable Metrics
John Hunter
"Metrics are valuable when they are actionable. Think about what will be done if certain results are shown by the data. If you can't think of actions you would take, it may be that metric is not worth tracking."
Resist your machine thinking!
Jeffrey Liker
"To maintain consistent output, one must continually adjust the system to changing environmental conditions. This is called dynamic homeostasis in systems thinking, or running to stay in place. ... Maintenance comes from having clearly defined standards, observing carefully for deviations from those standards, and then developing and implementing countermeasures to eliminate the deviations."
Why Lean Programs Fail
Jeffrey Liker
Mike Rother
"a large survey conducted by Industry Week in 2007 found that only 2 percent of companies achieved their anticipated results... When we look at lean in this way it is not only a set of techniques for eliminating waste, but a process by which managers as leaders develop people so that desired results can be achieved, again and again. That means coaching people in practicing an improvement kata every day."
Why I Run a Flat Company
Jason Fried
"At 37signals, however, we have a different position on ambition. We're not big fans of what I consider 'vertical' ambition—that is, the usual career-path trajectory, in which a newbie moves up the ladder from associate to manager to vice president over a number of years of service. On the other hand, we revere "horizontal" ambition—in which employees who love what they do are encouraged to dig deeper, expand their knowledge, and become better at it. We always try to hire people who yearn to be master craftspeople, that is, designers who want to be great designers, not managers of designers; developers who want to master the art of programming, not management."
Interview of and by Dr. Ackoff and Dr. Deming
Russell L. Ackoff
Clare Crawford Mason
W. Edwards Deming
Great stuff. The transcript spells Dr. Ackoff's name wrong (Akoff). They discuss the important of viewing organizations as systems and a fair amount of time on the problems with business school education in the USA. And they touch on a huge number of management topics. Dr. Deming "When one understands who depends on me, then I may take joy in my work." Dr. Ackoff "If there isn't join in work, you won't get productivity, and you won't get quality."
An Interview with Donald Wheeler
Donald J. Wheeler
"All profound ideas are timeless. While the details may change, the underlying principles remain the same. Deming's fundamental ideas came, in part, from his association with Shewhart and his concept of an operational definition... For years I observed managers telling Deming all the good things that they were going to do and heard him respond with one of two questions: 'By what method?' or 'How will you know?' It is just that basic. Until you can answer these two questions, all you have is wishful thinking."
Robust Experimental Strategies for Improving Upstream Productivity
Ronald D. Snee
The solution to this problem is to use Lean principles to streamline the processes and procedures used to do the experimental work. Eliminating complexity and wasted time and effort results in experimentation being speeded up and scientists having more time to do creative work.
Deming's14 points are not a menu you can pick and choose from.
David Joyce
"Everyone should search continually for problems in order to improve every activity in the company, to improve quality and productivity and thus to constantly decrease costs. Finding what's wrong is not improvement. Plugging leaks is not improvement. Don't look at outcomes or defects, instead look at what produces the defects."
Teachers Cheating and Incentives
Dan Ariely
"they began to do anything that would improve their performance on that measure even by a tiny bit—even if they messed up other employees in the process. Ultimately they were consumed with maximizing what they knew they would be measured on, regardless of the fact that this was only part of their overall responsibility."
Stop Ignoring the Stalwart Worker
"Perhaps the defining characteristic of Stalwarts is their aversion to calling attention to themselves — even when they need to. They are like the proverbial wheel that never squeaks — and, consequently, gets no grease. ... The other signature trait of Stalwarts is their deep loyalty to the organization. They are responsible and care deeply about the organization's values, and they generally steer clear of risk. Stalwarts are intrinsically motivated by the service they can render for the good of the organization, and they let their own careers take a backseat to the company's well-being. They feel that they have accomplished something if the company is running like a well-oiled machine."
Jobs made Apple great by ignoring profit
Clayton Christensen
"When the pressure is on and the CEO of a big public company has to choose between doing what's best for the customer or making the quarter's numbers… most CEOs will choose the numbers. Apple never has... Profitability isn't at the center of every decision. Apple's focus is on making truly great products — products so great that its own employees want to use them. That philosophy has made Apple one of the most innovative companies in the world."
How Do We Know What We Know? - Deming's SoPK Part IV
John Hunter
"If we can break from such beliefs that are not useful in modern organizations, we can improve our decisions. Having a Deming-based theory of knowledge will help us break from those beliefs and it will help us be more thoughtful as we learn to question other management beliefs we hold –many of which simply are not useful –or cause harm. Understanding the theory of knowledge within the context of the Deming's System for Managing helps us more effectively and consistently learn and improve the processes and systems we work with. "
The Gemba Walk
Norman Bodek
"the plant manager got up from behind his desk. He asked me to join him on his daily walk; in fact he told me that he walked the plant twice a day every day and that it was the most valuable part of his day... The plant manager asked those questions and you could see the excitement on the face of the supervisor as he was answering the questions. I learned that there's enormous power in the leader asking questions and then just listening – yes; this is the key to ask the question and then to just listen carefully, not judgmentally."
How to Get a New Management Strategy, Tool or Concept Adopted
John Hunter
"Often when learning about Deming's ideas on management, lean manufacturing, design of experiments, PDSA… people become excited. They discover new ideas that show great promise to alleviate the troubles they have in their workplace and lead them to better results. But how to actually get their organization to adopt the ideas often confounds them..."
Eight guidelines for closing the knowing-doing gap
Jason Yip
"Why before How: philosophy is important. Focus on Why (philosophy, general guidance) before How (detailed practices, behaviours, techniques) ... Action counts more than elegant plans and concepts. Ready, fire, aim. Act even if you haven't had the time to fully plan the action..."
How An Aeron Chair Gets Built Every 17 Seconds
"At Herman Miller, they average 1,200 'plan-do-check acts'--that is, little proposed changes to the assembly process--ever year. ... A decade ago, an Aeron took more than 600 seconds in total to build. Today, it's about 340. Meanwhile, safety metrics have improved by a factor of 6. Quality metrics have improved by a factor of 10. A single Aeron takes one fifth of the labor to make that it once did. The actual factory itself is 10 times smaller. Today, Herman Miller is doing far more with the same labor force that was once producing a sum total of five different office chairs. Today, they produce 17, using roughly the same number of people. And all the while, lead times have shrunk from two months to as little as 10 days." "
Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle
John Hunter
"The PDSA cycle is a learning cycle based on experiments. When using the PDSA cycle prediction of the results are important... The plan stage may well take 80% (or even more) of the effort on the first turn of the PDSA cycle in a new series. The Do stage may well take 80% of of the time - it usually doesn't take much effort (to just collect a bit of extra data) but it may take time for that data to be ready to collect."
Transcript of Speech by W. Edwards Deming to Japanese Leaders in 1950
W. Edwards Deming
"The knowledge and brains applied to statistics by the Japanese are an essential national resource; it is important in the same way as water power, forests, and railroads. And that statistical knowledge, much like water power, is not useful at all unless it has an impact on work opportunity and work. With water power, if one were to get rid of turbines and generator machines, no power would emerge."
Manage Better by Managing Less
John Hunter
It can be tempting to cram your days full of activity to show how hard-working and vital you are. Finding time to think is hard enough; maxing out your capacity makes it next to impossible. Everyone agrees taking time to think is wise. But I have rarely seen managers make it a priority. Managers will say they value it, but they cram schedules so full that they can't really spend time thinking.
The Promise of Lean in Health Care
John Toussaint
and Leonard L. Berry, PhD. "When well executed, Lean transforms how an organization works and creates an insatiable quest for improvement. In this article, we define Lean and present 6 principles that constitute the essential dynamic of Lean management: attitude of continuous improvement, value creation, unity of purpose, respect for front-line workers, visual tracking, and flexible regimentation. Health care case studies illustrate each principle. The goal of this article is to provide a template for health care leaders to use in considering the implementation of the Lean management system or in assessing the current state of implementation in their organizations."
That World (Still) According to Peter Drucker
Rick Wartzman
" 1) Have a strong mission and a cogent answer to the deceptively difficult question, "What business are we in?" 2) Always remember that 'there is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer' while accepting that 'quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for.' 3) Push responsibility and accountability as far down into the organization as possible and follow this basic communications strategy: Listen down, talk up. 4) Embrace the fact that every organization develops people--"it either helps them grow or it stunts them"--and so you do everything you can to help them grow. ..."
The Promise of Lean in Health Care
John Toussaint
"Health care cases reveal that Lean is as applicable in complex knowledge work as it is in assembly-line manufacturing. When well executed, Lean transforms how an organization works and creates an insatiable quest for improvement. In this article, we define Lean and present 6 principles that constitute the essential dynamic of Lean management: attitude of continuous improvement, value creation, unity of purpose, respect for front-line workers, visual tracking, and flexible regimentation. ... Lean is a journey, not a destination. Unlike specific programs, Lean has no finish line. Creating a culture of Lean is to create an insa- tiable appetite for improvement; there is no turning back."
Six Drucker Questions that Simplify a Complex Age
Peter Drucker
Rick Wartzman
"What does the customer value? This "may be the most important question," Drucker advised. "Yet it is the one least often asked." This insight is especially relevant in an age where customers have more power and choice than ever before. ... But today, when knowledge work is predominant, tasks can be far more difficult to define. There is often no specific way for a knowledge worker to tackle an assignment. He or she typically has enormous discretion over what steps to take (and which ones not to take), and in what order to take them..."
A Management, Leadership, and Board Road Map to Transforming Care for Patients
John Toussaint
"This article offers an alternative approach: management by process—an operating system that engages frontline staff in decisions and imposes standards and processes on the act of managing. Organizations that have adopted management by process have seen quality improve and costs decrease because the people closest to the work are expected to identify problems and solve them. Also detailed are the leadership behaviors required for an organization to successfully implement the management-by-process operating system and the board of trustees' role in supporting the transformation."
Management Web Sites and Resources
Gemba Panta Rei
Jon Miller
Great blog on lean manufacturing topics by Jon Miller.
W. Edwards Deming Institute
W. Edwards Deming
Founded by W. Edwards Deming the institute carries forward his philosophy. The site includes information on the institutes annual conferences and offers newsletters online.
Curious Cat Management Improvement Articles
John Hunter
Hundreds of useful management articles hand selected to help managers improve the performance of their organization. Sorted by topic including: Deming, lean manufacturing, six sigma, continual improvement, innovation, leadership, managing people, software development, psychology and systems thinking.
Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog
John Hunter
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Lean Manufacturing Blog
Mark Graban
News, articles and podcasts on the the lean manufacturing with a focus on health care by Mark Graban.
Toyota Production System
Site on Toyota.com. "The Toyota Production System (TPS) was established based on two concepts: The first is called '
'(which can be loosely translated as 'automation with a human touch') which means that when a problem occurs, the equipment stops immediately, preventing defective products from being produced; The second is the concept of '
,' in which each process produces only what is needed by the next process in a
continuous flow
John Grout's Mistake-Proofing Center
Many examples of mistake-proofing.
Deming Cooperative
The Deming Scholars MBA Program at Fordham University, New York City, aims to build a foundation for leadership in the new economic age. It provides a small group of highly motivated students with a unique opportunity to develop expertise in Dr. Deming's teachings and to build leadership skills.
Smarter Solutions
Forrest W. Breyfogle Iii
Consultant focused on six sigma improvement with
available on various topics.
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Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
George E. P. Box
William G. Hunter
Founded in 1985 by George E.P. Box and the
William Hunter
at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The
technical report series
is one of the best online management resources with reports authors including:
George Box
W. Edwards Deming
Peter Scholtes
Kaoru Ishikawa
William Hunter
Gipsie Ranney
Brian Joiner
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
IHI works to accelerate improvement by building the will for change, cultivating promising concepts for improving patient care, and helping health care systems put those ideas into action.
White papers
available online on topics such as: Planning for Scale: Going Lean in Health Care, A Guide for Designing Large-Scale Improvement Initiatives, A Framework for Spread: From Local Improvements to System-Wide Change, and Seven Leadership Leverage Points for Organization-Level Improvement in Health Care.
Associates in Process Improvement
Consulting firm with Provost, Langley, Norman, Moen and Nolan. Authors of the excellent:
Improvement Guide
. Several
very good articles on variation
available on the site.
Daily Kaizen
Lee Fried
Blog by Lee Fried tracking the journey of a world-class health care system as it continuously improves to serve its members. He works for Group Health Cooperative non-profit care system in Seattle, Washington.
Jamie Flinchbaugh
Jamie Flinchbaugh
Blog on lean culture, transformational leadership, and entrepreneurial excellence. Jamie is a consultant and co-author of The Hitchhiker.s Guide to Lean: Lessons from the Road.
Lean Six Sigma Academy
Ron Pereira
Blog by Ron Pereira explaining how I believe lean manufacturing and six sigma can and should work together in harmony.
Evolving Excellence
Kevin Meyer
Bill Waddell
Excellent and opinionated blog focused on lean manufacturing by Kevin Meyer and Bill Waddell.
Peter Scholtes
Peter R. Scholtes
Web site of Peter Scholtes, author of
The Leader's Handbook
an excellent book
) and The Team Handbook. The site offers
several excellent management articles
. He taught with Deming.
Peter was a good friend
and his management ideas are well worth studying.
Hexawise - Combinatorial Software Testing
Justin Hunter
John Hunter
This blog, by Justin Hunter, is about efficient and effective software test design strategies, including pairwise and combinatorial methods that are gaining traction in the testing community.
Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen Appelo
Jurgen is primarily interested in software engineering, quality improvement and complexity theory, from a manager's perspective.
Wally Bock's Three Star Leadership Blog
Wally Bock writes this blog to give bosses at any level - insight, information, and pointers to resources to do a better job and live a better life.
Work Matters
Bob Sutton
Signal vs. Noise
Blog on design, business, experience, simplicity, the web, culture and software development.
Performance Improvement
Blog by Glenn Whitfield focused on business management, lean, strategy, and related topics.
Lean Six Sigma for Law Enforcement
Blog by Sergeant Billy Wilkerson (with the Jacksonville, Florida Shefiff's Office).
French Deming Association
"Our purpose is to help our members and to coordinate their studies, in order to promote a way of management which respects human dignity."
Beyond Lean
Blog by industrial engineering with the theme of reflecting on lean management and the idea that business units should be educated on lean thinking and principles.
Madison Area Quality and Innovation Network
Community based quality improvement network founded in Madison, Wisconsin in 1987. "Our vision is to be a driving force behind positive economic and social change by promoting widespread application of customer-driven continuous improvement methods throughout the community"
Lean Enterprise Institute
Jim Womack
"We carefully develop hypotheses about lean thinking and experiment to see which approaches work best in the real world. We then write up and teach what we discover, providing new methods for organizational transformation. We strive to answer the simple question of every manager, "What can I do on Monday morning to make a difference in my organization?" And, by creating a strong Lean Community through our website and public events we try to give managers the courage to become lean change agents."
Business Week
Management Wisdom
Clare Crawford Mason
W. Edwards Deming
Robert Mason
Home of the Deming Library tapes and Better Management for a Changing World (with Ackoff and Suarez).
Management and Leadership Quotes
John Hunter
Quotes on management, business, leadership and many related topics: innovation, problems solving, change, statistics, planning, motivation, etc..
Joe and Wanda on Management
Blog by Nick McCormick exploring management from different perspectives.
John Shook's Column
John Shook
Articles by John, senior advisor at the Lean Enterprise Institute.
Got Boondoggle
Mike Wroblewski
"My lean experiences include learning directly from the original lean leaders including Dr. Shigeo Shingo. As a certified Six Sigma Black Belt, I believe quality is a cornerstone of all improvement actions. By sharing these experiences and insights, my hope is that you may benefit on your lean journey."
PQ Systems
Software and services provider related to SPC tools. The site includes a blog.
Building a Great Company
Gregg Stocker
"Thoughts and examples - good and bad - on the state of business and how to improve competitiveness and quality of life for everybody."
Life and Legacy of William G. Hunter
John Hunter
William G. Hunter
George Box
, Stuart Hunter and Bill wrote what has become a classic text for experimenters in scientific and business circles, Statistics for Experimenters. Bill also was a leader in the emergence of the management improvement movement. George Box and Bill co-founded the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Bill Hunter was also the founding chair of the ASQ statistics division.
Management Innovation eXchange
"an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. The premise: while "modern" management is one of humankind's most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age. Current management practices emphasize control, discipline and efficiency above all else — and that's a problem. To thrive in the 21st century, organizations must be adaptable, innovative, inspiring and socially accountable. That will require a genuine revolution in management principles and practices."
Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections
John Hunter
The aim of Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections is to contribute to the successful adoption of management improvement to advance joy in work and joy in life. The site provides connections to resources on a wide variety of management topics to help managers improve the performance of their organization. The site was started in 1996 by John Hunter.
Lean Edge
Michael Ballé
H. Thomas Johnson
Daniel T. Jones
Art Smalley
Steven Spear
Jeffrey Liker
Mike Rother
"Lean management is a method to dramatically improve business performance by teaching people how to improve their own processes. The two main dimensions of lean management are continuous process improvement (going and seeing problems at the source, challenging operations and improving step by step) and respect for people (developing and engaging employees by developing teamwork, problem solving and respect for customers, employees and all other partners). ... The aim of the discussion [on the site] is to share different points of view and to collectively build a vision of lean management."
Steven Spear
Steven Spear
Five-time winner of the Shingo Prize for research excellence and a senior lecturer at MIT and former assistant professor at Harvard. A senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, he is the author of numerous articles appearing in academic and trade publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Annals of Internal Medicine, Academic Medicine, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times.
Not Running a Hospital
Paul Levy
Advocate for patient-driven care, eliminating preventable harm, transparency of clinical outcomes, and front-line driven process improvement.
ITSM Professor
Blog on IT Service Management by Lisa Schwartz, Jayne Groll and Ross Wise.
Bill Bellows
Offer an annual conference along with ongoing learning opportunities focused on the management ideas of Deming and Ackoff.
Managers Are Heroes
"In our world, the Manager is the Hero. Bringing justice to the world: Decreasing Conflict, Increasing Productivity – and Enhancing the Lives of all that cross their path... This blog is written by Mike Brown – who like all of you – is a manager, fighting the good fight."
Startup Lessons Learned
Eric Ries
By the author of the very popular book: Lean Startup.
The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog
John Hunter
Gemba Walkabout
Mike Stoecklein
"Gemba walk" (lean thinking term) to go to the actual place where value is added + "walkabout" (Australian aborigine) a short period of wandering bush life engaged as an occasional interruption of regular work.
Quantum Shifting
Vision: People all over the world enjoy meaningful and satisfying work by thinking bigger about themselves, their work and the world.


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Clinical Trial Comparing Conventional and Robot-Assisted(Da Vinci®)Laparoscopic Interventions for Hysterectomy
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The aim of this study is to compare conventional with robot-assisted (Da Vinci®) laparoscopic hysterectomy regarding operating time peri-operative outcome and costs.
Condition | Intervention |
Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Duration of Surgery Intraoperative Complications Postoperative Complications |
Procedure: Conventional Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Procedure: Robot-assisted (Da Vinci®) laparoscopic hysterectomy |
Study Type: | Interventional |
Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Open Label Primary Purpose: Treatment |
Official Title: | Laparoscopic Hysterectomy: a Clinical Randomized Trial Comparing Conventional and Robot-Assisted(Da Vinci®)Techniques |
- duration of surgery [ Time Frame: after surgey ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- complications [ Time Frame: within hospitalisation ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
- costs [ Time Frame: during hospitalisation ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 100 |
Study Start Date: | November 2008 |
Estimated Study Completion Date: | December 2010 |
Estimated Primary Completion Date: | December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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Active Comparator: 1
Randomized group of patients receiving conventional laparoscopic hysterectomy
Procedure: Conventional Laparoscopic Hysterectomy
Removal of uterus via standard laparoscopic techniques
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Active Comparator: 2
Randomized group of patients receiving robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy
Procedure: Robot-assisted (Da Vinci®) laparoscopic hysterectomy
Removal of uterus by robot-assisted laparoscopic technique
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During the last few years robot-assisted surgery has been introduced in many surgical specialties and experiences in gynaecological surgery are very limited.
Several aspects like the wider range of motion of robot-instruments leading to more precision in surgery, the 3 dimensional optical system and the ergonomically designed console may offer some advantages. For better judgment these possible benefits as well as safety and outcome need to be evaluated and compared with conventional laparoscopic hysterectomy techniques. This randomized clinical trail intends to compare conventional with robot-assisted(da Vinci®-System) laparoscopic hysterectomy regarding specific parameters. The focus of the study will be to investigate if the robot assisted procedure shows significant advantages for the patient considering duration of surgery, complications, hospitalisation and costs.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older |
Genders Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Indication for laparoscopic hysterectomy
- Patients BMI < 40
- Signed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Estimated uterus weight >400 g
- No combination with other procedures
- No underlying malignant condition
Contact: Dimitri Sarlos, MD | +41(0)62 838 5065 | email@example.com |
Switzerland | |
Kantonsspital Aarau | Recruiting |
Aarau, Switzerland |
Study Chair: | Dimitri Sarlos, MD | Kantonsspital Aarau |
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Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Dimitri Sarlos/ Vice Chairmain, Kantonspital Aarau/ Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00683293 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: | KSA-RobHyst |
Study First Received: | May 21, 2008 |
Last Updated: | June 23, 2009 |
Health Authority: | Switzerland: Ethikkommission |
Keywords provided by Kantonsspital Aarau:
Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Hysterectomy Robot-assisted Surgery |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Intraoperative Complications Postoperative Complications Pathologic Processes |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 13, 2014


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