Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

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 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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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. And the company will be rewarded for doing so with better results. But there are ways to change.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

The Toyota Way to Continuous Improvement: Linking Strategy and Operational Excellence to Achieve Superior Performance Jeffrey K. Liker and James K.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 3, 2020

Guest blog post by Doug Stilwell, Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership at Drake University. Gladwell asks, “Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously…” or “…are we bound up together in a grand interlocking web?” (p. New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company. References.

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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. The concept of inclusion in business started when Quality gurus like Deming asked Americans to drop the ‘product-out’ mentality and instead practice a ‘customer-in’ mindset.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

They’ll also note that “safety pays” in reducing costs, or admit they fear reputational damage following a significant incident at their company. I watched with concern as the company, under pressure from activist shareholders to increase profits, cut costs and let its safety program deteriorate. At Cummins, Inc.,

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2017

. “The boundary of the system to be described…may be drawn around a single company or, around an industry, or as in Japan in 1950, the whole country. Edwards Deming, The New Economics. Edwards Deming, Genichi Taguchi, and others, to 70 graduate students, all pursuing a masters degree in business administration.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. In 1992 the company was in cost-cutting mode, and, as former CFO Orry Fiume told me, it was consequently offering an early retirement package designed to reduce headcount. That's a good question.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. In 1992 the company was in cost-cutting mode, and, as former CFO Orry Fiume told me, it was consequently offering an early retirement package designed to reduce headcount. That's a good question.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. The contrast was driven home by a full-blown reenactment of Deming’s famous red bead experiment.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Companies and institutions exist at different levels of functionality. If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. Three Levels of Management.

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