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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Brad Power for the Harvard Business Review blog (March 7, 2011). To read the complete article, check out other articles and resources, and/or sign up for a free subscription to Harvard Business Review’s Daily Alerts, please click here. * * * When they set out to [.].

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

Deming Institute

Brent spoke of several process improvements demonstrating Deming’s Chain Reaction (improving processes increases quality and reduces costs). 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. This is another excellent presentation; I recommend taking the time to watch it.

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

Deming Institute

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. He then used the bone diagram process to again listen to stakeholders to determine their desired state for the district.

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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.   Ready to improve your management skills? .

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

Vincent includes valuable ideas from Russ Ackoff on an organizational decision making process (including the importance of learning from decisions over the long term ). 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. Stuart Hunter (Princeton University), New Challenges for Statisticians.

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Five Perspectives To Evaluate Your Experiences: Revise

Tim Milburn

It’s a process of focusing on a very few things and honing them to the point that the basics become second nature and the execution is nothing short of remarkable. When it comes to the evaluation process – the fourth perspective of revise comes into play here. It’s not trying to learn how to do 5000 things well.

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Reliability: Another Dimension of Quality

Deming Institute

Analytic study : Everything else and especially sampling from a process. can allow an organization to create processes to intervene prior to failure. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. You refer to a new book that you published. I should be pleased to have a copy.

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