Curious Cat

JANUARY 5, 2016

The Purpose of an Organization (2005). Edwards Deming Institute Blog in 2015 – Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Comments Blog – The Most Popular Photos on the Curious Cat Travel Photos Blog in 2015. The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010). Stated Versus Revealed Preference (2013).

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

I was happy to see John Hunter share the article on the Deming Institute blog last year , along with some context. The SHS journal article starts with a brief introduction, not in the original document, by Dr. Deming that summarizes the key points, all of which are still relevant today. The lesson learned? Many hands go up.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 6, 2015

The posts were published in 2010 (4 posts), 2013 (2), 2014 (2), 2005 (1) and 2012 (1). The Purpose of an Organization (2005). Deming and Software Development (2014). Here is a list of the 10 most popular posts on this blog last year (as measured by views counted by my analytics applications). The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010).

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

Peter was less focused than the statisticians (the other 3 and Deming were statisticians) on data, but they were all cut from the same cloth. And through all of them I was exposed to Dr. Deming’s ideas and those also have had a great influence on my thinking. Bill Hunter and John Hunter.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Edwards Deming, The New Economics. In the summer of 2005, I attended a conference which featured Jack Welch, the former CEO of General Electric, as the opening keynote speaker. Through his seminars, lectures, videos, and books, Dr. Deming shared a vision of systems well-managed. Post by Bill Bellows.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950. Years later, in 2005, Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, Chairman and former President (1982-1999) of Toyota, accepted the American Society for Quality’s Deming Medal.

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Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Dr. Deming explained that the organization was a system that included the suppliers and customers. I wrote about this on my personal blog in 2005, Ford and Managing the Supplier Relationship. Point 4 in W. You need to manage and continually improve that entire system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product. Edward Deming , the father of quality movement in the 1950s, believed that what can’t be measured doesn’t get managed. The same holds true for growth.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. I wrote about this in 2005: Excessive Drug Prices in the USA (and several times since then, Drug Price Crisis [2008] – it is a long term, huge economic problem for the USA). Decades ago W. One of those was excessive health care costs. was developed at a U.S.

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Curious Cat

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Dr. Deming called excessive healthcare costs a deadly disease decades ago yet Democrats and Republicans allowed it to continue harming us year after year and decade after decade. That is the same toaster they designed and maintain at the behest of those benefiting from burnt toast continues to burn toast.

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