「華人戴明學院」是戴明哲學的學習共同體 ,致力於淵博型智識系統的研究、推廣和運用。 The purpose of this blog is to advance the ideas and ideals of W. Edwards Deming.

2012年6月28日 星期四

城市管理/投資與紅珠實驗

我平均2~3天會收到與Deming 博士相關的文章
它們通常都是提他--什麼TQM之父或協助戰後日本產業復興的美國統計學家/管理專家....
現在通常不採納或介紹
這兩篇是美國 Connecticut 州Norwich的市政文化節目的說帖
把城市管理/投資說成是 紅珠實驗
姑且讀一讀想一想

Bill Kenny: Events will bring people downtown
Norwich Bulletin
By Bill Kenny Dr. W. Edwards Deming made headlines, if not friends, in American industry a generation ago with his “Principles of Quality Management,” ...
 Chelsea is the Red Bead Experiment
Norwich Bulletin
Dr. W. Edwards Deming made a lot of headlines if not a lot of friends in American industry a generation ago with his Principles of Quality Management.





Dr. W. Edwards Deming made a lot of headlines if not a lot of friends in American industry a generation ago with his Principles of Quality Management. In the USA where all we're concerned about is winning and losing and nuance gets lost in the noise, people invoke him more as an abstraction than an applied idea. Too bad, because more often than not, he's be right at home in Norwich, Connecticut.

Deming insisted 'we should work on our processes, not the outcome of our processes.' His Red Bead Experiment was intended to prove flawed systems are responsible for failing outcomes, not those willing to work hard or those talented enough to lead them.  Quite frankly, if that's not Norwich in the summer of 2012, then I need to get a new GPS because this is where I seem to come home to every night. I'd know those red beads anywhere.

Tonight is actually an exception to the Red Bead Experiment I think, based on last year, that may prove to be the rule (fingers crossed). Tonight at six, it's the inaugural show of Rock the Docks, the Wednesday night free live performances at Howard T. Brown Park all summer long which showcase a whole lot of different performers and bands playing a variety of musics in the belief that everyone likes some kind of music.

The turnout last summer was excellent, building from week to week and if the skies are half as kind as the acts promised are good, downtown should be jumping and that, simply put, is both the process and the outcome. Terms like 'thinking outside the box' get used for an idea like this which is all well and good except we can delete everything after 'thinking' and still be correct.


Elsewhere, it's more of the same thinking that got us here. Up the street from Howard T. Brown Park, like a sleeping beauty, say its proponents, is the Reid and Hughes ruin (building really does seem a bit of a stretch) awaiting just a pinch of municipal dollars and some tax credits for a developer to return it to life as something it never was, a mixed use building that will be another downtown destination. 


That the proposals to develop that property have no connection or correlation to a half dozen other private projects in various stages across downtown almost goes without saying. This is, after all, Norwich; hold on tight to your red beads.  


Rock the Docks costs us as a city very little in terms of overall expenditures and creates waves of commerce that reach from the park to the restaurants and bars blocks away as those attending the shows are the feet in the street we purport to be so interested in attracting across downtown. We argue among ourselves everyday as what 'Chelsea needs' and small shop owners and restaurants and pub owners seem to have figured it out already. 


When you add events like First Friday, like performances at the Spirit of Broadway, the Farmers Market (coming soon) and Meet the Author nights at Otis Library, discussions about perceptions of crime and/or the  lack of parking are suddenly mooted and muted because when we are attracted to an offering we choose to invest of ourselves and go. 


Success like failure is more habit than destiny and we can be (more) successful if we trust our instincts and learn to dress for success. And that means lose the red beads.
-bill kenny 



2012年6月8日 星期五

萬里長城= 21196 公里 (2012)"有意義的定義"





此"  萬里長城= 21196 公里 (2012)"爭議有點意思
這與"有意義的定義"有關
值得大家想一想



 萬里長城= 21196 公里 (2012)

万里の長城、実は2万キロ超 再測量で長さ2.4倍に

写真:多くの観光客が訪れる北京郊外の万里の長城=2005年10月2日撮影、ロイター拡大多くの観光客が訪れる北京郊外の万里の長城=2005年10月2日撮影、ロイター

6日付の中国各紙によると、中国国家文物局は、世界最大の建造物といわれる万里の長城の総延長が、これまでの2.4倍に当たる2万1196.18キロに上ることがわかったと発表した。
万里の長城は、現存する部分の多くが明代(1368~1644年)に造られた。同局は2009年、明代の長城の長さを8851.8キロだと発表していた。今回、秦や漢などの時代のものも含めて科学的に測量したところ、全長が一気に伸びたという。
長城は北京市、天津市、黒竜江省、河南省、新疆ウイグル自治区など15地域に及び、このうち北京市は約600キロを占めたという。(北京=金順姫)

  環球時報稱,中國大陸近日公布最新長城總長度,遭南韓媒體和學界嘲諷說,「萬里長城如同橡皮筋一樣可以伸縮自如」,帶有政治意圖。大陸學者則稱,南韓說法荒謬,無中生有。

  中國大陸國家文物局日前宣布,中國歷代長城的總長度2萬1,196.18公里,比2009年測量時增加了約1萬2千公里。而新長城遺址則分布在吉林、黑龍江、山東等省市。

  對於倍增的長城,南韓東亞日報表示,大陸將長城東端延伸至曾是高麗和渤海國領土的吉林省和黑龍江省,引起南韓學界不滿。

  南韓又石大學教授趙法鐘認為,大陸此舉帶有政治意圖,是為了顯示大陸曾經擁有廣闊疆土。

  朝鮮日報則表示,大陸硬是以目前的國境線為標準,將以前高麗、渤海國、契丹、女真建造的城墻,都視為萬里長城,顯然不合理。

  報導指稱,大陸延伸萬里長城顯示大陸的「統一的多民族國家論」,也就是將目前居住在大陸領土的所有少數民族都看作中國人,將他們的歷史都歸結為中國民族史。

  對此,遼寧社科院東北亞問題專家呂超說,南韓對這次測量的非議毫無意義,中國本身就是多民族國家。

  呂超表示,有些南韓民眾指責大陸的勘測有「政治意圖」,那更是「無中生有」。他說,南韓認為高麗是他們的祖先,所以大陸勘測長城不應該包括高麗,這種說法很荒謬。

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