Host Ira Glass introduces the story of the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., aka NUMMI. In 1984, General Motors and Toyota opened NUMMI as a joint venture. Toyota showed GM the secrets of its production system: How it made cars of much higher quality and much lower cost than GM achieved. But today, GM cars…
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This week’s Podcast, continues our “Knowledge in Variation Series” with Dr. Frony Ward, Managing and Founding Partner of Pinnacle Partners East, LLC In this podcast, Frony discusses online surveys and polls. She starts by sharing the fundamental piece of every single survey. From there she delves into elections polls, and why so many election polls…
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This week’s podcast, continues our “Knowledge in Variation Series” with Dr. Frony Ward, Managing and Founding Partner of Pinnacle Partners East, LLC Frony discusses the importance of Statistical Process Control (SPC) in all parts of an organization and why it’s a barrier to many. Frony was first introduced to SPC (Statistical Process Control) when she…
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