QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. In one of the chapters “Building a Process-Focused Organization”, Subroto Bagchi shares a wonderful story that only underlines the importance of process.

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Process IPO Directory Creativity 84

Curious Cat

MARCH 21, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 7 deadly diseases ). I named excessive executive pay and a broken “intellectual property” system as new deadly diseases in 2007. I have previous written on my belief that excessive executive compensation had reached the level of a deadly disease of western management (building on the W.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused. Edwards Deming’s discussion on truly understanding the needs of customers and also Russell Ackoff’s ideas on seeking solutions by looking at the larger containing system.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. I wrote on my Curious Cat Management Improvement blog in 2007, Eliminating Quarterly Earnings Guidance : “It is good to see more people understand the bad practice of excessive short term focus on quarterly profits.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. This specific example also highlights what I classified as a new deadly disease in 2007 – the broken patent and trademark system. Decades ago W. One of those was excessive health care costs. Sadly that deadly disease has become much worse in the last several decades.

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Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

Edwards Deming discussed frequently and emphasized in his management system ). A common problem that companies face is that they bring in technical tools (such as control charts , PDSA improvement cycle , design of experiments , kanban , etc.) without an appreciation for the organization as a system.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

Related: The Customer is the Purpose of Our Work (2012) – Customer Focus with a Deming Perspective (2013) – the most important customer focus is on the end users (2012) – What Job Does Your Product Do? 2007) – What one thing could we do better?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Edwards Deming. He is a Futurist and Corporate Strategist TM , with four trademarked concepts of business… heralded widely for ways to remediate corporate damage, enhance productivity and facilitate better business. Hank has presented Think Tanks for five U.S. Presidents. He has spoken at five Economic Summits.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The concept of inclusion in business started when Quality gurus like Deming asked Americans to drop the ‘product-out’ mentality and instead practice a ‘customer-in’ mindset. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Consider leaving a comment! This content is intended for personal and non-commercial use only.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The timeline showed five improvement initiatives matching the eras of five presidents: Quality Action Teams (1992-1995), Total Cycle Time (1995-2000), Perfect Order (2000-2003), Grainger Performance System (Balanced Scorecard and Six Sigma) (2004-2007), and Lean (2008). For example, you could use "continuous improvement" instead of "kaizen."

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2010

John Hunter is a passionate improvement expert who shares some profound lessons on management, leadership, lean and Deming. Ivana Sendecka is a remarkable individual who is working really hard shipping inspiration and making a difference. Her blog is an interesting collection of thoughtful questions, experiences and stories that inspire.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Deming Seminar in Singapore- New Philosophy of Management By Tanmay , January 6, 2011 @ 1:56 pm @John - Thanks for extending the opportunity to participate in Annual Review of Management Improvement Blogs. John Hunter´s last blog.

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