OK, so here’s the situation. You manage a business and the owner of the business comes to you and says that you must achieve the following goals:
Reduce prices for customers
Increase the wages of the employees
Improve the profitability of the business
What thoughts would cross your mind? Perhaps something like, “And, did you want that yesterday?” or [...]
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the manual worker in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is similarly to increase the productivity of knowledge work and knowledge workers. The most valuable [...]
IIE Los Angeles welcomes Western Region members to Las Vegas! Join us for a weekend of ideas, professional development and entertainment. Meet IIE members from across the Western United States. Special hotel rate available until 2/6/2013.
Have you ever experienced brain freeze during a job interview? You are asked a question and your mind goes blank—it’s horrifying. You lose composure as well as confidence. Your interview goes down hill from there. Brain freeze most often happens as a result of behavioral or situational interview questions that are not anticipated before hand. [...]
Join IIE for the Western region Student conference at the University of Arizona.
The conference will be hosted by the University of Arizona this year in beautiful Tucson, Arizona. Come enjoy the great weather and discover the possibilities of industrial engineering. Join us as we take tours of some of the local Tucson companies and hear [...]
Often, people will ask, “can I use 6-sigma for software development?” The short answer is yes. I explain why below.
Like any process, software development can be viewed as a sequence of activities, so process improvement techniques like 6-Sigma will apply. Below, I explain how two Statistical Quality Control (SQC) tools, design of experiments and control [...]