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

Deming Institute

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. Guest post by John Hunter , who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. Brent James has worked at Intermountain Healthcare for several decades. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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

Deming Institute

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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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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Reliability: Another Dimension of Quality

Deming Institute

2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. In recent years, for instance, Christensen has applied his ideas to healthcare and education — showing how enlightened management thinking can tackle the big issues facing society.