Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Edwards Deming. I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away. Why had I heard of Dr. Deming?

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Curious Cat

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you would limit yourself to paying attention to 5 thinkers to advance your understanding of managing organizations Ackoff should be one of them. Of course, many managers don’t even try to learn from 5 leading management thinkers to do their jobs better over their career.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Supervision belongs to the system and is the responsibility of the management. Restructure training. Improve supervision.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” I was happy to see John Hunter share the article on the Deming Institute blog last year , along with some context. A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. When I teach at health systems, I always ask who has heard of Dr. Deming.

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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. The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950.

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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. You need to manage and continually improve that entire system. I wrote about this on my personal blog in 2005, Ford and Managing the Supplier Relationship.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run. In 2005, when the demand for the iPod Mini remained huge, the Nano was launched, effectively destroying the revenue stream of an existing product.

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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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