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2019 ASA Deming Lecture, Walking with Giants: A Research Odyssey

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Nicholas Fisher, University of Sydney, gave the 2019 ASA Deming Lecture – Walking with Giants: A Research Odyssey. In the presentation Nicholas shared his experience at a 4 day Deming seminar in Australia in 1991. Nicholas learned from Bill Conway, CEO of Nashua Corporation (and someone Deming quoted and worked with).

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The November 2011 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the November 6, 2011 edition of leadership development carnival! She also provides a practical 4-step process to make a change in your attitude.". No technology or rote process can give you the “correct” plan – BUT a solid process for planning can guide you to the best plan for your team and you.

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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. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy Versus Process

QAspire

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), These structural changes won’t produce the desired outcomes if the flow (process) aspect is not addressed. Because, work flows horizontally.

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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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Healthcare, Paradigm Shifts and the Influence of W.E. Deming

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I blogged about my experience in healthcare back in 2011 and described how my “hope level” for improvement in healthcare has gone up and down like a sine-wave pattern over the last 20-30 years. Dr. Deming is cited several times in the book, and the reader will find evidence of Dr. Deming’s thinking throughout the 180 pages of the book.

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

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Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. To that end, Dr. Deming might well ask, “By what method” can we determine the “right” things to do? Mark Lane, 2019).

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