Deming Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Previously published by Quality Digest. Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing the number of levels of management?” Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing the number of levels of management?”

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JULY 6, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). This is the seventh post in our Deming on Management series. Edwards Deming’s ideas. View our previous Deming on Management posts , including: Leadership , Appreciation for a System and the PDSA Cycle.

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MAY 21, 2018

Beginning in 1951, the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded the Deming Prize to honor organizations, and later, individuals, for extraordinary accomplishments in quality management. Yet, reducing common cause variation to zero overlooks Dr.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 7, 2019

The 20 most popular post on our blog this year (by page views reported by our analytic tool): Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). Appreciation for a System (2012). A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every Time (2015). The Deming Chain Reaction (2012). Toyota’s Management History (2016)*.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

Dr. Deming used the Red Bead Experiment to clearly and dramatically illustrate several points about poor management practices. The Red Bead Experiment shows that even though a “willing worker” wants to do a good job, their success is directly tied to and limited by the nature of the system they are working within.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 21, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Balaji Reddie ’s presentation, Why Deming? Edwards Deming Institute Conference in 2018. A powerful point Balaji Reddie made during the presentation was that you learn about Deming’s ideas by applying them.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Edwards Deming Institute offers events for those interested in applying Deming’s management ideas in their organizations. Leading with a Systems View: Deming Management Method for Owners and Executives.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Peter Scholtes shared his thoughts on Leading Quality: Some Practical Approaches to the Managers New Job at the 1992 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. Peter starts the talk exploring myths about the practice of quality management. It takes more than improvement.

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MAY 7, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. This is one good tactic to use when introducing new management ideas.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 27, 2017

Edwards Deming Incubator for Public Affairs at Southern Utah University spoke at the Deming Management in Public Administration Conference earlier this year on Public Administration: Past, Present, and Future. Systemic transformations are rooted in a profound shift in shared mental models.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Edwards Deming. Meanwhile, I was reminded of a statement from Dr. Deming, “Variation there will always be, between people, in output, in service, in product.” In a matter of seconds, Allison discovered that limes have variation, although I never investigated her discernment criteria. The basic problem anywhere is quality.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Management changes, or our strategic plan is rebuffed, or people simply don’t perform the way we think they will. We appreciate these 23 leaders who have incisive ideas about how to succeed when complications arise, and how to nurture teams who can then thrive. Bruce says, “Appreciation is a powerful leadership tool.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 5, 2019

Dr. Deming used the Red Bead Experiment to clearly and dramatically illustrate several points about poor management practices. The Red Bead Experiment shows that even though a “willing worker” wants to do a good job, their success is directly tied to and limited by the nature of the system they are working within.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 17, 2017

As noted in my June 26 th post, “It Depends…” , when asked in February 1990 about the trend towards reducing the number of levels of management in organizations, Dr. Deming answered, in his usual Socratic fashion: “Why have more levels than you need?”.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 6, 2018

Kat Vanden Heuvel, Executive Director at Sawtooth Botanical Garden , shares how Deming principles have changed the way people think and work at her organization in this video with Nicole Luisi of Alerion. Doing so puts in place a strong and effective management system that reliably produces great results.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Ru ssell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and in his books. Should the system be small enough, the actions would always seem right.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A recent blog by John Hunter, Ackoff on Systems Thinking and Management, highlights a collection of videos of lectures by Russell Ackoff, recently made available at this site. Edwards Deming in presentation after presentation, I was struck by a frequent phrase used by Thomas Clarke, a favorite high school teacher.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Might this proverb apply to systems leadership in schools, as well? Is “tunefulness” the optimal state for a system to best achieve its desired results? How might a leader promote a “tuneful harmony” so that the system that is neither too tightly or loosely “strung?”. When the strings were too tight, they would snap.

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APRIL 24, 2017

But building and maintaining a management culture that reinforces delighting customers and long term thinking is quite difficult. There are many reasons I support and wish to see the wider adoption of Deming’s ideas. It requires knowing what your customers want and creating system that can reliably delivering that to customers.

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Deming Institute

JULY 3, 2017

In his presentation at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar Joseph Schneider discusses his efforts to apply Deming’s ideas within Siemens. This is useful as this is true for nearly every (every one that I know of) attempt to apply Deming’s ideas on management.

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JUNE 11, 2018

Muller’s The Tyranny of Metrics (2018) is a book that Dr. Deming would have surely appreciated. The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 10, 2017

One of the challenges is that the implications of his quote naturally fit into an organization with a management system built with an appreciation of Deming’s ideas but often run into challenges in other organizations. So often companies fail to focus on the needs of customers. This requires planning ahead.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 26, 2017

“There is not a day I don’t think about what Dr. Deming meant to us. Deming is the core of our management,” proclaimed Shoichiro Toyoda , Toyota’s president between 1982 and 1992 and chairman between 1992 and 1999, at the 1991 Deming Prize Ceremonies in Japan. One year earlier , in February 1990, Dr. W.

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Deming Institute

MAY 19, 2017

John Hunter has led the blogging efforts of The Deming Institute, including our first post on October 1, 2012, followed by biweekly posts ever since. Edwards Deming Institute ®. Looking ahead, Bill will collaborate with John and a community of guest bloggers, as well as offer his own insightful contributions to our blog site.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent Barabba presented the 2016 ASA Deming Lecture: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective. What I appreciated most was the fact that he railed against decision-makers and those providing them information who blindly asserted opinion as fact out of convenience or ignorance. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The 20 most popular post on our blog this year (by page views reported by our analytic tool): Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every Time (2015). 2015 Deming Prize Awardees (2015) *. Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities (2013).

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Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

ASQ has asked the Influential Voices on quality management to look at the question of integrating technical quality and human management systems. How do different systems—technical or human—work together? My view is that the management system must integrate these facets together.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2017

John – I have just read your column on performance reviews, with a reference to Dr. John – I have just read your column on performance reviews, with a reference to Dr. Deming’s teachings. As you have noted, Dr. Deming was not at all a fan of annual performance reviews.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This webcast shows Brian Hwarng ’s presentation, The Funnel Experiment, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. This insight is critical to understanding Deming’s ideas and applying them. Organizations are complex systems with many interdependent parts. Brian discusses the impact of interactions on results.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Edwards Deming had a large and varied collection of influences. The ideas Dr. Deming drew from the work of C.I. Lewis provide one of the ways his ideas on management are different from others. Lewis on Shewhart and Deming by G. But Dr. Deming found the ideas useful. Deming found the ideas useful.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The most popular post on our blog this year: Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban (2013). 2014 Deming Prize Awardees (2014). Dr. Deming Called for the Elimination of The Annual Performance Appraisal (2012). Inspection is too late.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 18, 2016

Edwards Deming spent decades refining his thoughts on management and refining how to present those thoughts. That thinking culminated in what he call the System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK). They work together as a system. The view of an organization as a system by W. The view of an organization as a system by W.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2016

If people asked Dr. Deming what they should do if they tried to get their company to adopt Deming’s ideas on management and the company wouldn’t he often suggested working on their resume and applying to other companies. View your organization with an understanding of Deming’s management ideas.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 19, 2017

Jim Benson’s presentation at our 2015 International Deming Research Seminar explored how to manage the workload better to improve results. Companies that understand this important idea have a big advantage over those that retain a theory x management system that they believe is needed to control people.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 21, 2016

Edwards Deming Institute. Lean Management Journal for several years that discuss how to apply Deming’s ideas (and related management improvement ideas) in organizations. And, so it goes, when we relentlessly focus our attention on one of many causes as the singular cause and miss the system.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A Edwards Deming . There is not a day I don’t think about what Dr. Deming meant to us. Deming is the core of our management.”. A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. Phillip Crosby.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2016

This is one of the most fundamental points that is often not appreciated as clearly as it could be. That means we have to focus on improving the system to improve all the results from the system. Most of the time we should be focusing on the entire systems and figuring out how to improve that.

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