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

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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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Why Deming / Why Now / Working to transform “our” system

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Edwards Deming was the NBC Special (termed a “Whitepaper”), “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” His questions within resonated with me immediately, as I was a new supervisor for Bell Telephone. The early emphasis on productivity in the program was a familiar theme at my work and the telecommunications business. Why Deming?

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Exploring a World View Through the Lens of Profound Knowledge

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It seems to me, the conference presentations available online (from OQPF and the Deming Institute and elsewhere) are a valuable resource that most managers fail to take advantage of. Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability.

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The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World

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Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. But they are packed with content and if you are serious about applying Deming’s ideas they are incredibly powerful resources.

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Impact of Process Tampering on Variation (Experiment), presented at Engineering Education Conference

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Variation is life or life is variation ” is how Dr. Deming described the extent of what we observe in our personal and work outcomes. Dr. Deming demonstrated the impact of tampering using his well-known funnel experiment. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines tampering as “interfering so as to weaken or change for the worse”.

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The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World

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Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. Related: Mike Tveite on The Role of Learning in Improving Organizations – Deming 101 with Mike Tveite – Experience Teaches Nothing Without Theory.

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Human Resources in the Post Deming Era

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Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion.