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Dr. Bill Bellows, new Deputy Director of The Deming Institute

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Edwards Deming Institute — one which will open tremendous possibilities for our future. Dr. Bill Bellows to The Deming Institute staff as our new Deputy Director! Bill has been a long time member of The Deming Institute’s Board of Trustees; a valuable guiding influence for more than a decade. We welcome. Bill Bellows.

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Deming’s Ideas in Action: Trader Joe’s Culture

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An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. We plan to use this blog to explore examples of management action today (using the lens of Deming’s ideas to view those actions) in order to help illustrate how Deming’s ideas can be put into practice.

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Deming’s Ideas in Action: Trader Joe’s Culture

Deming Institute

An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. We plan to use this blog to explore examples of management action today (using the lens of Deming’s ideas to view those actions) in order to help illustrate how Deming’s ideas can be put into practice.

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What we see…

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Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” Deming is the core of our management.” . per million opportunities.

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

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Edwards Deming. I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away. Why had I heard of Dr. Deming?

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

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General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

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Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. “The concept of superjobs takes this shift one step further.