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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

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2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. I wrote a previous post on this blog about a paper he wrote about using Deming’s ideas at Intermountain Healthcare. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician.

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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

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Edwards Deming famously remarked that “in God we trust, but everyone else should bring data.” By 2010, around 75% of the sample had adopted some form of predictive analytics, although most of these firms only used the tools sporadically, despite higher intensity use being linked with greater returns. Strong returns.

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Two Tweets & A Blog

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Edwards Deming. It also begs another question, “If the Japanese so easily understood what Deming was saying, why is it still so difficult for people in western societies to understand?”. In today’s world “Understanding Relationship’s” might be an easier way for us westerners to understand what Deming was trying to tell us.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

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In one of his conversations found on YouTube and posted on January 11, 2010 (the year following his death), Dr. Ackoff provides the following insight about leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead: Peter Drucker said “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.” 2010, January).

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20 Most Popular Posts on the Curious Cat Management Blog in 2016

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The Toyota Way – Two Pillars (2010). How to Manage What You Can’t Measure (2010) *. Increasing the Adoption of Management Improvement Ideas in Your Organization (2010). Why Don’t Football Players Just Thrown the Ball Out of Bounds to Stop the Clock (2010). Deming and Software Development (2014) *.

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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. The idea of testing opinions and beliefs is key to Deming’s management system (as it is to the scientific method). 2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy Versus Process

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Regards, Jay Chhaya By Tanmay , October 14, 2010 @ 12:54 pm @Jay - Thanks for the comment. Best, Tanmay By Glyn Lumley , October 14, 2010 @ 1:51 pm An excellent post, Tanmay. Your reference to gaps in the lateral movement of work reminded be of Frank Voehl’s post on the Deming Learning Network - “Managing the White Space&#.

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