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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

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Vincent Barabba presented the 2016 ASA Deming Lecture: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective. Vincent Barabba led the US Census Bureau, founded Market Insight Corporation and authored The Decision Loom: A design or interactive decision-making in organizations (among other books). Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician.

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Using Outdated Management Practices Can Be Very Costly

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Readers of this blog are aware of the problems created by using quotas: Achieved the goal by not the aim (2013) – The Futility of a Numerical Goal (2014) , Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (2013) , Dr. Deming on the problems with targets or goals.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

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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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The 'Invisibles' in Business Performance

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Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”. Deming opined that everything that is critical for business performance may not be measurable. Ivana Sendecka´s last blog.

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