However, they are lacking in the methods and tools to support the cultural and social development, or people questions, required to develop and sustain, through time, cultures of continuous improvement. Overall, she says these programs are great at addressing the structure and technology questions for continuous improvement.
Some forecast the failure of rate of programs like Lean and Lean- Six Sigma to develop lasting cultures of continuous improvement to be as high as 60%. They want high standards.Īlanna, being on the lookout for what works, sees opportunity in many processes and programs intended to address improving quality and operational standards. Welders know, like many trades and professions, that the quality of work of any one individual reflects on the quality of the whole. There was a limiting belief, common in many places with many different work groups, that the welders, if left to their own devices, might want to negotiate for the greatest flexibility possible. Welders resisted, speaking also about the individual signature of each welder and in some instances unclear written processes. The original debate was about one measurement only – quality errors. The World Café method was an invitation into letting go of what they thought they knew and into becoming curious about what might be possible. They were not able to hear each other across the worldviews and across assumptions of what they thought they knew about the other.
In a way, the welders and the supervisors and engineers were speaking different languages with different worldviews. In the case of the welders, there was a long term debate surrounding the criteria by which to measure and know if an individual welder was working within and meeting quality guidelines. And in both of the Cafés she hosted, the outcome had immediate impact. A true life long learner (see about Alanna at the end of this post) and a third generation in manufacturing, she is not looking for what can’t be done, she is looking for how results can be achieved and success rates improved. It was so successful she then did one with shippers. Paul, Minnesota when she said she had recently hosted a World Café with welders at Emerson, the manufacturing company where she is a production manager. Nearby cities include Stinesville, Gosport, Spencer, Nashville, Paragon.Alanna Kennedy turned heads in our opening circle at the March 2014 Art of Hosting offering in St. Most of the campus buildings are built of Indiana limestone.īloomington is also the home of the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University Maurer School of Law - Bloomington, the Jacobs School of Music, the Kelley School of Business, the Kinsey Institute, the Indiana University School of Optometry, and the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute.
In the 1991 book entitled The Campus as a Work of Art, author Thomas Gaines named the Bloomington campus one of the five most beautiful in America. Established in 1820, IU Bloomington has approximately 40,000 students and is the original and largest campus of Indiana University. The population was 80,405 () at the 2010 census.īloomington is the home to Indiana University Bloomington. Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S.
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