Tag: numeracy
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 Camelot have withdrawn a lottery scratchcard because customers couldn’t work out when they had won.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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