Background:
In Sweden, diabetes prevalence is increasing in spite of unchanged incidence, indicating improved survival. In recent US studies mortality in diabetic subjects has decreased over three decades, but only in men. Our aim was to study mortality over time in diabetic subjects.
Methods:
The annual Swedish Living Conditions Survey from 1980 to 2004 has been record-linked to [...]

The Slacker Generation may be more charitable than the Greatest Generation.
According to a fresh survey from Northern Trust, which polled 1,000 households with investible assets of at least $1 million, Generation X millionaire households (those ages 28 to 42) gave away more money than Baby Boomers (43 to 61) or Silent Generationers (62 to 77). [...]

The 2007 “Marketing KnowHow” blog post that drew the most comments was “How To Be A Customer.” The post recommended five good customer behaviors: be demanding, respectful, reliable, surprising and engaging. It’s clear, judging from the volume and passion in your comments, that the notion of “respect” in particular resonated most with many of [...]

The 2007 “Marketing KnowHow” blog post that drew the most comments was “How To Be A Customer.” The post recommended five good customer behaviors: be demanding, respectful, reliable, surprising and engaging. It’s clear, judging from the volume and passion in your comments, that the notion of “respect” in particular resonated most with many of [...]

Benchmarking Overview:
In 1912, Henry Ford of The Ford Motor Company watched men cut meat during a tour of a Chicago slaughter house. The carcasses were hanging on hooks mounted on a monorail. After each man performed his job he would push the carcass to the next station. Less than six months later, the worlds first [...]

What is Lean?

‘A manufacturing philosophy that shortens the timeline between the customer order and the shipment by eliminating waste.’     
-John Shook
Toyota’s first ( and still only) American ‘Kacho’ (manager)in Japan 
 

1890 - Sakichi Toyoda receives a patent for a wooden loom and the philosophy of ’KAIZEN’ is born out of the need to compete.

‘No machine or process ever reaches the point where it cannot be improved upon.’ - Sakichi Toyoda  
1908 -Henry Ford invents the moving assembly line and raises the daily wage to $5.00; continuous flow as a production method is created.

‘ The thing is to keep everything in motion and take    the work to the man and not the man to the work.    This is the real principle of our production and     conveyors are only one of many means to an end.’    - Henry Ford : Today and Tomorrow

The Roots of Lean Manufacturing Henry Ford developed and used some very specific management tools as he built his Model T factory, a tractor factory or [...]

Six Sigma is a management technique that aims to develop and deliver near perfect products and services. It has been claimed that Six Sigma is only useful for problems that are ‘hard to find, but easy to fix’ as contrasted with the radical reengineering approach, whose advocates focus on problems that are ‘easy to find, [...]

From the November 15, 2004 print edition
Nonprofits’ finance under Spitzer’s watch
Annie Deck-Miller, Business First
If you’re an executive or board member of a nonprofit, you may sometimes get the sneaking suspicion that your every move is being observed and judged.
Chances are, that suspicion is not far off the mark.
As accounting and management scandals wend their way [...]

This is an excerpt of an article in Fast Company Magazine
From: Issue 87 October 2004, Page 68
By: Keith H. Hammonds
It’s the central myth of the modern workplace: With a few compromises, you can have it all. But it’s all wrong, and it’s making us crazy. Here’s how to have a life anyway.
It may be that [...]