"Jay Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > SNIP > What is critical, nonetheless, is that most of them are initially unaware of > the terms, ISO9000 or Baldrige Award. A few more have heard the term, > Six-Sigma. And these folks live in the city that started GE on 6-S - GE Med > Systems in Milwaukee, also the headquarters of the American Society for > Quality. "The Word" has not diffused as far as we might like. > >SNIP > > but on the whole, American business has always been extremely diverse in terms > of technology adoption, and fact-based decision making methods are no > different. Companies and individuals that do not understand what is happening > may suffer, but this group has always suffered economically. Perhaps if some > instructors in other subjects were to integrate a little bit of statistical > thinking into the problems they present, both statistical as well as the other > technology understanding would improve, and the students could avoid the worst > of the economic suffering.
Your comments raise some interesting thoughts regarding technology adoption. One may wish to read "Crossing the Chasm" by Moore and McKenna, which delves into this subject matter rather deeply. While it takes a business/marketing perspective, I would argue that the general principles raised relative to the adoption of "new thinking" are applicable across a variety of domains. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0066620023 Marc Schwartz To Reply Remove "-REMOVE.TO.REPLY-" in E-Mail Address ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
