My MIND MAP on PROF. DOUGLAS MONTGOMERY's Lecture on "INNOVATION, QUALITY TECHNOLOGY & STATISTICS" at ISE Dept, Faculty of Engrg, NUS on Friday, 21 Feb 2014

MIND MAP SUMMARY of LECTURE BY PROF. DOUGLAS MONTGOMERY on 21 Feb 2014

NETWORKING EVENT Organised by ISE Department, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore

I was glad to attend the excellent presentation by Professor Douglas Montgomery on "Innovation, Quality Technology & Statistics".
It was an evening where the Professor shared his thoughts that Industrial Engineers (IE) should be renamed/called as Innovation Engineers instead. Lots of questions/ anecdotes were shared......among them were:

1) Prof. Douglas Montgomery's "Ask my driver" anecdote. He also mentioned that executives and managers nowadays, are not EXCITED about quality but are more EXCITED about new products instead.
2) The difference between an Engineer and a Doctor..... wrt the goals of "Landing a man on the Moon" and "Finding a cure for cancer" by Prof. LC Tang
3) Sharing of how to deploy 6sigma methodology in education? 
4) Comparing ISO companies to those who really cared about Quality .....--> being ISO does not mean or lead to Quality products.....it just means following a set of procedures! to........
5) Using DOX in determining teacher effectiveness.....!
6) Executives not quite interested in QUALITY. They get extremely EXCITED only in NEW PRODUCTS.
7) Quote: "All experiments are DESIGNED EXPERIMENTS"
8) Difference between an Aerodynamics expert (Theorist: Dr Samuel P Langley) versus two Bicycle Mechanics (Experimenters: Wilber and Orville Wright) is the former built 2 planes that failed to take off, while the later built planes that eventually flew!
9) Research is to create SURPRISES and take RISKS... while, Development must not have SURPRISES and ZERO RISKS! Hahaha.

It was an enjoyable evening and am looking forward for the next talk. 

Thank you for viewing.

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My Mind Map on Dr Spencer Johnson's Book on "Who Moved My Cheese?" on 19 April 2001

Well, anyone who have read Dr Spencer Johnson's book on "Who Moved My Cheese?" would loved this simple mindmap that I have drawn minutes after reading this excellent book.

It concisely explains in simple language the situation before and after a change and the intervals between changes (denoted by the cheese being moved). The book explains that changes happens and how one should monitor and anticipate the impending changes so as to adapt to the new environment when it happens.

Dr Johnson also very cleverly explains why we should conquer our FEARS and get ready to face up to the inevitable changes to our environment even before it happens again. Only this time, one should be ready and should join in and enjoy the changes as part of an ongoing process in society.

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