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With an extensive professional network in the Seattle area, JDMC can bring other parties to bear on your project and leadership needs. Ceptara Corporation. Is a close partner to JDMC, and in fact, Dan Mason serves as Director of IT and Software Consulting at Ceptara. In addition to Ceptara, we maintain collaborative relationships with a number of individual consultants with specialties including manufacturing/fabrication, customer service, IT operations, and general LSS training.
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Quality Blog: December 2007
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Thursday, December 6, 2007. Critical Success Factors for an Enduring Quality Program. During a recent NWQF (Northwest Quality Forum) meeting, the team members discussed how to market quality. There were some very interesting discussions. The list below attempts to capture some of the key ideas. In no particular order -. Build Excellence through Small Wins. Show Progress through Measurement. And message appropriately – If you're talking to the executives focus on the numbers, if you're talking to th...
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Quality Blog: August 2008
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Saturday, August 30, 2008. I've moved my blog to my company domain - http:/ chris.ceptara.com. Please visit me there. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mill Creek, WA, United States. I am the Managing Partner of a small consulting company in the Pacific Northwest (US). We bring a strong quality foundation to help companies systematically solve some of their hardest problems. www.ceptara.com. View my complete profile.
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Sponsorship Levels and Benefits. The “Unconference”. Event Host and Sponsor. Technology organizations rely on Pivotal Product Management to improve the effectiveness of their product management teams. We help product managers become business leaders through customized training, coaching, and consulting. We specialize in software organizations who are adopting Agile and Lean practices. Can help.Gain an in-depth understanding of the product life cycle for software, including mobile apps, consumer and e...
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Quality Blog: Blog Moved
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Saturday, August 30, 2008. I've moved my blog to my company domain - http:/ chris.ceptara.com. Please visit me there. Mill Creek, WA, United States. I am the Managing Partner of a small consulting company in the Pacific Northwest (US). We bring a strong quality foundation to help companies systematically solve some of their hardest problems. www.ceptara.com. View my complete profile.
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Make Standard Work Stick (TWI) - Amcon April 10th 2013. Mon, 03/18/2013 - 13:52 l-childs. Training Within Industry - How the Make Standard Work Stick. Ceptara News - May 2012. Mon, 03/26/2012 - 05:15 l-childs. View this message [online]. Here's the latest news from the team at Ceptara ( www.ceptara.com. A company dedicated to helping organizations and individuals focus and achieve their goals. Upcoming Workshop-How to Achieve Organizational Excellence-November 10th. Wed, 10/19/2011 - 18:00 l-childs.
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Quality Blog: June 2007
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Sunday, June 10, 2007. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Just finished "The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable" by Patrick M. Lencioni [Book Link]. It's written in the same style as "The Goal" (Goldratt, Cox) [Book Link]. Ie a method taught in the form of a story. Think Win/Win (Build Trust), Seek first to understand, then to be understood (Healthy Debate), Begin with the end in mind (Create committment and accountability) and First things first (Results focus). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Quality Blog: October 2007
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Monday, October 1, 2007. Creating an Effective Agenda. Recently I attended a training session on "Running Effective Meetings". It was a nice refresher course and summarized a number of practices quite well. Below I've included some notes on creating an agenda that was included in the course. Recipe for Creating an Agenda. Overall Goal: The overall finish line; where the team is heading; the final result. Topics: The discussion activities that help to achieve the meeting objectives. Key Players: The peopl...
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Quality Blog: Performance Management using SharePoint (2003)
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Friday, February 29, 2008. Performance Management using SharePoint (2003). For those of you that have had the chance to see what’s new in SharePoint 2007, you will notice the addition of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators). This is a wonderful addition and will add the ability for business users to drive metrics at a new level. But what about all of those SP2003 installs? Sans the upgrade, is there anything one can do to add scorecards? Title: The short name for the metric. IF(Status="Green","http:/ SPDoma...