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Reliability: Another Dimension of Quality

Deming Institute

2015 ASA Deming Lecture by William Meeker – Reliability: The Other Dimension of Quality: William Meeker begins the presentations discussing his experience with W. 2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2012, Dr. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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Toyota Under Fire

CEO Blog

Instead of firing employees like many other large firms were doing at the time, Toyota embraced its mantra of kaizen (Toyota’s firm philosophy of change/improvement for the better) and held company-wide training seminars (most impressively in factories it had stopped production in).

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

Deming Institute

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. Brent spoke of several process improvements demonstrating Deming’s Chain Reaction (improving processes increases quality and reduces costs).

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

2010, Sir William Osler: Dr. Deming Consults on Quality. 2012, Dr. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. 2015, William Meeker: Reliability – Another Dimension of Quality. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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Possibility Maximizer: Management Improvement Carnival

Sales Wolf Blog

 The Management Improvement Carnival naturally features posts on how improve your management skills and systems within your organization, but also has a special focus on how this can be accomplished using lean management practices such as Kaizen, Six Sigma, and even Hansei.  Enjoy! .  And, by the way.  Enjoy! .

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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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What Makes a Great Teacher? Leadership

Tony Mayo

Leadership May 7th, 2010 — tonymayo Email This Article I noticed something interesting about executive effectiveness while reading an article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, What Makes a Great Teacher? The Atlantic Amanda Ripley Aren’t these familiar leadership qualities? – What Makes a Great Teacher?

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