Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

Years ago, the guru of Quality Management, W. Edwards Deming, warned us of this pitfall. These exert pressure up and down the system to make the numbers look good, instead of continuously improving the work processes and systems to achieve true quality. Accept the short-term consequences of your choice.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 4, 2017

Edwards Deming Institute® is to foster an understanding of The Deming System of Profound Knowledge® to advance commerce, prosperity and peace. At the Deming Institute, we honor the legacy of Dr. Deming by bringing his teachings to life today and for the future. Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming Institute®.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This webcast shows Steve Haedrich’s presentation, The System of Profound Knowledge Applied to Sales and Marketing, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. Getting more sales that don’t fit your strengths can weaken your company as the negative interactions disrupt the rest of your organization. Guest post by John Hunter.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

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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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

David Langford’s presentation at the 2015 Deming in Education conference starts with a clip from Clare Crawford Mason’s PBS presentation on Mt. Deming was a champion of the individual. ” So why was Dr. Deming so tough on management (and especially executives)? Edgecumbe High School, in Sitka, Alaska.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

David Couper of Improving Police contributed Are You A Quality Leader? David’s article outlines 12 principles of quality leadership. Edwards Deming Institute , provided the podcast Transforming The Organization – With David Langford. Follow The Deming Institute on Twitter at @DemingInstitute.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. They used Deming’s ideas to turn around a company being crushed in the marketplace to one delighting their customers. Jet-Hot integrates Deming’s system view with their own management or operating system.

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Deming Institute

MAY 5, 2016

In this post I discuss another wonderful paper by Dr. Deming. Edwards Deming Institute makes this paper, and many more, available on our website. Edwards Deming, 1954: For all four groups of people [management, statistical administration, research, front-line workers], the statistical method is more than an array of techniques.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

” J ohn Hunter presents Rethinking or Moving Beyond Deming Often Just Means Applying More of What Dr. Deming Actually Said posted at Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , saying, “This post takes a look at how Dr. Deming’s ideas apply to management issues today.” ”

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

I was happy to see John Hunter share the article on the Deming Institute blog last year , along with some context. The SHS journal article starts with a brief introduction, not in the original document, by Dr. Deming that summarizes the key points, all of which are still relevant today. Why was the payment delayed? The lesson learned?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

J ohn Hunter presents Rethinking or Moving Beyond Deming Often Just Means Applying More of What Dr. Deming Actually Said posted at Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog , saying, "This post takes a look at how Dr. Deming's ideas apply to management issues today.". The post also points to the brilliant work of Lois Kelly.".

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

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.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Edwards Deming, Point 1 or the 14 points for management , page 23 of Out of the Crisis. Problems of the future command first and foremost constancy of purpose and dedication to improvement of competitive position to keep the company alive and to provide jobs for their employees. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis, page 25.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. As a quality engineer, I am always looking for quality focused businesses. 14 Deming principles.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

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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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused. Edwards Deming’s discussion on truly understanding the needs of customers and also Russell Ackoff’s ideas on seeking solutions by looking at the larger containing system.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 28, 2015

The costs of attending conferences are easy for companies to calculate. I can see why companies often are very tight with budgets for conferences. I took this photo after presenting a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Boston (at the Boston Fine Arts Museum – see more photos ). A stone sarcophagus from ancient Egypt.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 30, 2012

A recent survey of 1,600 executives in 35 countries conducted by The Boston Consulting Group found that over 90 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees had recently changed their organization structure. ” Change slam-dunked from the top down often comes from executives who don’t have what the quality guru W.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

A similar type of irrationality affects innovators. As much as I love my kids, it's hard for me to have the same connection with them as my wife does — for obvious reasons — but with innovation. It can blind innovators to real problems and to important signals telling them to do something different.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. The 1980s saw the rise of total quality management in the U.S.,

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. My business would be to advise SME on how to be sustainable in the long term applying quality principles right from the very beginning. I applied for the Deming grant to learn more about him and be able to implement his teachings more accurately.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Subroto Bagchi’s first best-selling book, The High-Performance Entrepreneur , shared his story of building a company. In The Professional he gives us his knowledge, based on his lifelong experience, of what it takes to be a professional, what qualities you need to become a great professional.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. Most innovation methods don’t actually result in innovative solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. That's a good question. Can you still make a qualified job guarantee?

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The ‘Invisibles’ in Business Performance In world of quality and management, W. Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. That's a good question. Can you still make a qualified job guarantee?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Look at the companies that successfully used this approach.". Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. By reviewing the history of its process initiatives, the company made its journey visible and discussable. Here's this new approach.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. may be drawn around a single company, or around an industry, or…the whole country. Post by Bill Bellows. There is little evidence that we give a hoot about profit. On July 22, 2014, Apple announced financial results for its fiscal third quarter, reporting a revenue of $37.4 billion and a quarterly net profit of $7.7

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Companies and institutions exist at different levels of functionality. If the company management feels it is operating below this standard most of these practices can be self taught by studying them on the internet or visiting a bookstore. the company increases profitability and stays in business; and.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Back in 2009, there were just four companies that fit the bill. Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. ” Rule #2: Find a balance between derivative products, platform upgrades, and breakthrough innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Quality control revolutionized Japanese manufacturing in the 1960s and 1970s, even though the concept could not find a foothold in American manufacturing (although it was originally developed by an American , W. Edwards Deming). European and American companies had to play catch-up for decades. Distributed Database.

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