Tag: numeracy
Teach Yourself Supply Chain Management in Ten Years
(with apologies to Peter Norvig) Some time ago, the wise and well-respected computer scientist Peter Norvig wrote an article called “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years”. I read it recently and found it so full of good sense I couldn’t resist taking the spirit of Norvig’s thoughts and applying them to supply chain management. Norvig’s […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment, Training and Reference.
Tags: CILT, numeracy, People Management, supply chain management, Young Professionals
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More numeracy woes, bad news for supply chain skills
As I’ve been working from home a lot recently, I’ve had the radio on to give the office a bit of a ‘buzz’ and today I overheard this story on BBC 6 Music. Camelot have withdrawn a lottery scratchcard because customers couldn’t work out when they had won. The customers’ confusion stems from the concept […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: education, Lean, numeracy, People Management, Six Sigma, statistics
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Do we have the numeracy for Six Sigma?
There was a pretty depressing story in the Guardian a few days ago that proposes, in typical newspaper hyperbole, that Britain is in the grip of a numeracy crisis. For once, the concern is justified. According to the article, there are 3 times as many UK adults with poor numeracy than poor literacy. That’s 15.1 […]
Categories: Supply Chain News and Comment.
Tags: education, Lean, numeracy, People Management, Shingo Shigeo, Six Sigma, statistics
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