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

Deming Institute

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! Janna Rust presents Procrastination and Productivity posted at Purposeful Leadership , saying, "What are you procrastinating with right now? Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.". There is no do, only be.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

Deming Institute

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles.

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

Deming Institute

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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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. Edwards Deming in relation to a paper by Meeker and Gerald Hahn. Dr. Meeker showed a letter Gerald Hahn received from Dr. Deming on their paper: Your paper is great.

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, defined quality as “pride in workmanship.” We must move beyond quality in the product, the individual and the organization, and toward a broader cultural movement as a society, and that starts with our children. My wife was so impressed that no one spilled anything.

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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.), 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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