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Laxtonto

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  1. So to piggyback off of the CFB Coaching Destination thread:

    If they fire Major and:

    No Holgo recruits will want out and player unrest dumpster fire.

    Get Holgo WVU dumpster fire/player unrest.

     

    Does this mean Littrell or Brown would be in play for WVU or UH...,

     

    Cougar High will fuck this up and we can all watch the dumpster fire burn!

  2. More interesting is that they may fire Major anyways... Who goes to UH now if they can Applewhite and Holgo is just fishing for a raise? 

    Does it make any sense for Littrell at UNT (who plays UH in 2019) or Brown at Troy to leave after the quick trigger UH is looking to have?

  3. 1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

    My company introduced Lean and Six Sigma. I think most people are fine with it, and to be honest, the issue was never identifying issues or eliminating waste, it’s always been someone having the balls to make a decision and eliminate the waste. However, I would say the one thing that no one likes are the MBA jerkoffs who have zero technical knowledge who just hang around trying to find something to do every day. I don’t mean this as an insult to the OP either. I’m just providing real world feedback. It’s one thing to have someone who’s qualified to do a certain job who additionally becomes a Lean expert, but to throw some random MBA person into your group, it’s like having an embedded reporter. You have to hold their hand and explain everything to them, and all they really do is slow things down or become a glorified secretary. 

     

    That’s a standard start up problem if you have any sort of quality initiative with some form of capital or workforce constraint. 

    It is not an unusual complaint and is something that should (hopefully) go away over time if they have a legit internal training schedule in place.

    I hate to somewhat side with management on shit like this, but experienced quality personnel within specific fields are going to be expensive (and sometimes time prohibitive to fill) so they grab the supposed quality expert fresh out of college and pray that after a few projects they learn the field.

    Perfect world you hire experienced everything and let them do their job and do it well. Next best concept is to spend on good experienced top guys and hire a few fresh grads and then train train train. 

    Worst case if just hire fresh grads and let them loose on their own and watch the world burn.

     

    What should be happening is that they hire a few fresh MBAs and then also grab a few field content experts from within and then train the hell out of both groups so that you have a set of highly technical members that are learning the ins and outs of the quality initiatives all the while having some fresh MBAs learning the concepts from guys that know the field backwards and forwards. Unfortunately that takes time to be successful and very simply you will have lots of churn to get a group that works. The hardest issue is actually identifying who just isn’t going to “get it” and culling them out as soon as you can.

    Its the simple concept of if it was easy everyone would be an expert. Quality is hard to do well because it requires both sides of the coin; excellence in understanding how the principles of how quality works and excellence in the process itself.

    I feel your pain, and your issue is not uncommon and one of the primary drivers of why there are so many headaches with quality and getting buyin. 

    Good luck!

  4. 1 minute ago, futureman said:

    it’s big of you to admit when you’re wrong.  

     

     

    Rising hasn’t seen the field in major college football and saturdays are a little different than practice.  y’all have absolutely zero idea if he is better than CT. 

    One is known for his arm and ability to read the D, the other his legs. I would prefer the thrower just for some diversity 

  5. 2 minutes ago, Auto Driller said:

    I guess the new standard is that if you're not starting by the end of your freshman year you should transfer.

    Or knows he is in a 2 QB class that best case he waits one more year for the current starter that bleeds burnt orange to leave early so he can be in a 3 man QB competition, without including the possibility of a grad transfer.

    Woukd have hoped Thompson, because Rising is the better QB right now, but we all knew one of them was going to eventually transfer.

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  6. 14 hours ago, Johnny Chimpo said:

    I’m a green belt. At my company it’s total bullshit. You fudge some numbers to make yourself look good on your annual performance review, everyone has a party about it. Nobody even bothers getting into the details of did it really make a difference. 

    Yeah, that screams of a company that needs to do a new type of QM initiative...

    The real reason why companies change QM approach is not so people learn new stuff, but instead so they force a redo in both structure and leadership from the old way to cull out the “I don’t give a fuck” view that comes when leadership/management stop paying attention 

  7. Lots of new things out there in the Analytics space, with Machine Learning and AI being the hot topics of the Fall.  Mining of unstructured data is still on the forefront, but applications are lagging behind techniques.

    Lots of interest in Analytics on the Academic side, both within the Business Schools of the US and within Computer Science and Industrial Engineering Departments as well.

    The number of Academic posting in Analytics for faculty positions are at an all time high.

    I am now on the Editorial Review Board for the brand new Journal of Business Analytics

    INFORMS Data Analytics Society renamed their Interfaces Journal the Journal of Applies Analytics to keep up with the changing publication marketplace.

    Been a long ass semester.

  8. I am finishing up writing an entire semester long Six Sigma and Quality Management graduate course centered around the Quality Council of Indiana CSSBB Primer for this coming Spring Semester and I curious if any of the Surly faithful are in this realm?

    In addition, if any of you are green or yellows, I can could be persuaded to send you the Slide decks I have created.

    I would recommend that if you are serious about getting you ASQ Black Belt to use the QC of I material in comparison to some of the other materials out there.

     

    Yes... I know... The initial thread title was fucked...

    Six Sigm and Qaulity Management is probably not the best spelling

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