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Author Archives: Thomas
What’s in a Name
Wind Mountain, the bump in the middle of this photo, is a minor 1,900 foot peak that sits prominently on the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge separating the states of Washington and Oregon. Sandwiched between Wind Mountain and … Continue reading
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Strategic Planning Framework
Show as a single page The Goal of Strategic Planning There is a story told inside Hewlett-Packard about Dave Packard, one of the founding partners of Hewlett-Packard Company. In the late 1940s he was at a meeting with executives from … Continue reading
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Adaptive Project Management
Adaptive Project Management is, at it’s core, the art and science of solving complex problems by getting the right people talking about the right things at the right time. There is more to Adaptive Project Management than this statement suggests … Continue reading
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What We Can Learn about Data Analysis from a Fourth Grader and Her Science Project
In the spring of 2003, at the Intel Northwest Science Expo in Portland Oregon, I had the honor of meeting a rather remarkable young fourth grader. She was remarkable because, while most middle and high school students, and arguably most … Continue reading
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The Thomas Question
The Thomas Question is the name given by three unrelated people in three different contexts for a skill I have developed over the years. That skill is the ability to ask questions which, while kind, penetrate to the core of … Continue reading
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5S and Epoxy-Polyamide Paint — A Submarine Story
5S is one of the key practices of the Toyota Production System. The 5 S’s derive from five Japanese words which when romanized, begin with the letter ‘S’: Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, and Shitsuke. The Japanese word Seiso translates to … Continue reading
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