Mike Cardus

MARCH 31, 2019

Follow up is what good managers do, you follow up for 2 reasons : People are doing what they are supposed to be doing. Using this information with a team , we continued to develop some project and team leader processes to build the follow-up process. It turns out that the lack of follow up is pervasive , and many managers are busy.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Welcome to the April 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. Management changes, or our strategic plan is rebuffed, or people simply don’t perform the way we think they will. Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted Why Showing Appreciation To Your Team Makes A Difference. Read this to change that.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 4, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Edwards Deming Institute® and W. Edwards Deming’s grandson). This new 3rd Edition (published 25 years after the 1st edition) also includes a new chapter by Kelly Allan : “Why Deming? … Why Now More than Ever?”

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Deming Institute

JULY 17, 2017

Edwards Deming in Today’s IT, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. Poorani explains how the management system drives behavior that is not useful to the organization. The business team asks for estimates for software development. The management system creates a punishment mechanism for missing estimates by over 10%.

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Deming Institute

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

JANUARY 20, 2020

Edwards Deming Institute You Tube channel has shared videos online for 10 years now. Edwards Deming: The 14 Points (171,000 total views all time – it has been online for 5 years). Dr. Deming – The 5 Deadly Diseases (1984) (152,000 – 10 years). Edwards Deming (108,000 – 5 years). Why Deming?

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The Deming Dimension by Henry Neave provides good historical background and then a well presented explanation of Deming’s ideas on management. It is one of the best books to read to learn about Deming’s ideas. This can be done, but only by transformation of the style of management now practised.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion. Both were excellent employees during that time.

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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. Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. So the accounting system doesn’t run the company.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 19, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. TJ Gokcen,CEO of Acquate , shared a presentation at our 2015 International Deming Research Seminar on Aim as a System. And this is important because every system has a boundary and you determine these boundaries.

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Deming Institute

JULY 27, 2015

Join us November 6 to 8 for the First Annual Deming in Education Conference at the Cedarbrook Lodge in Seattle, Washington. Learn how the systems approach of Dr. W. Edwards Deming will liberate fear and ignite passion in students and educators alike. Dr. Deming Video: A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers.

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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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Deming Institute

APRIL 29, 2019

Guest post by Katie Groves, College Business Manager, College of Education and Human Development, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT. And that was just the beginning of a day filled with before and after stories that not only inspired but testified to the capacity of Deming’s Philosophy. April 3, 2019.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Software code review is the practice of reviewing the software code written by colleagues on your software development team. Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Do we need to update a software development checklist?

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Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

Appreciation for a system is one of the four components of Deming’s management system. In this context the most common item to think of is Deming’s diagram of an organization as a system. But systems thinking has an entire body of knowledge that is useful. That is a powerful diagram.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 15, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This video shows part 3 of a Russell Ackoff presentation from 2003 on Systems Thinking and Management (see our previous post on part 1 and part 2 ). He discusses the importance of development versus just growth. Errors are punished.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2016

One of the items Toyota highlights on their web site is winning the Deming Prize in 1965. Professor Deming and Toyota President Fukio Nakagawa at the Deming Prize award ceremony (1965). From the Toyota website: Receiving the Deming Application Prize strengthened Toyota Motor Co.,

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion. Both were excellent employees during that time.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Edwards Deming by Bill Scherkenbach (recording in February 1984, during this time Bill Scherkenbach worked at Ford and Deming was consulting with Ford). In this post I continue to explore this powerful video; it is part two of: Bill Scherkenbach’s Interview with Dr. Deming. This is a very interesting interview with W.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott first encountered Deming’s ideas while an engineer at Proctor & Gamble in 1986. Deming training was rolled out to us. He mentions that after providing great training Proctor & Gamble’s management system was very reluctant to adopt the better management methods. Scott Dalgleish.

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Deming Institute

MAY 6, 2019

We are happy that there are several blogs exploring the application of Deming’s ideas to management of organizations. The Deming SubReddit collects blog posts and other interesting resources on Deming’s management ideas. Blogs discussing Deming’s ideas that you may be interested in: The W.

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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. Lewis: Influence of C.I.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 22, 2017

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders. Dr. Deming’s timeless teachings have been, and will continue to be, a driving influence because we see his philosophies work.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 26, 2017

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders. Dr. Deming’s timeless teachings have been, and will continue to be, a driving influence because we see his philosophies work. We need knowledge.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

Edwards Deming famously remarked that “in God we trust, but everyone else should bring data.” The researchers found that the best-performing companies tended to make significant and complementary investments in their workforce, their IT systems, and their manufacturing processes. Strong returns.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

In 2014 I presented a paper at the 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar on the topic of “ Understanding and Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare.” I still think that there is hope, and I see evidence of improvement in the healthcare delivery system in the future.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. Get buy-in from top department managers. This begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. Begin a system of employee feedback to all department leaders.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The French Deming Association has a mission to implement the management theory designed by Deming. Their web site also offers several interesting papers including: Before Deming’s 14 Points for Management by Jean-Marie Gogue, The French Deming Association. In that paper Jean-Marie examines a speech W.

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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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Deming Institute

JANUARY 26, 2017

Far too often companies promote employees into management positions and expect them to fulfill the obligations of their new position without helping prepare them to meet their new responsibilities. Managing a software development team is a completely different job from being a great software developer.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Looking for an easier and more effective way to evaluate the effectiveness of your staff and managers? We all know this and they do little to improve the work and relationship of managers and staff. BUT companies still do them and employees and managers alike complain and request them. Does you company have a system that works?

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 17, 2017

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2016 (based on page views). The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people?” A bad system will beat a good person every time. Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Guest post by Michael Godfried: planner and policy analyst in Washington State and Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Like Dr. Deming, age is no barrier to his continued intellectual vigor. Dr. Deming believed that organizations should seek excellence both in their outcomes and processes.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. At times, multiple languages and multiple software systems, assisted by translators, might provide a more systemic solution. That is, a more economically viable solution, in which the investment is off-set by the systemic savings. per million opportunities.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 1, 2018

Edwards Deming Institute You Tube channel in the last year. Edwards Deming in them are the most popular. Edwards Deming: The 14 Points : 46,000 views in 2017 (added 3 years ago – 106,000 total views all time). Dr. Deming – The 5 Deadly Diseases (1984) : 15,000 (8 years – 135,000 total views).

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Deming Institute

APRIL 29, 2019

Guest post by Katie Groves, College Business Manager, College of Education and Human Development, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT. And that was just the beginning of a day filled with before and after stories that not only inspired but testified to the capacity of Deming’s Philosophy. April 3, 2019.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 3, 2017

These posts were the most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog in 2016 (as measured by page views, as recorded by my analytics application). How to Manage What You Can’t Measure (2010) *. 94% Belongs to the System (2013). Increasing the Adoption of Management Improvement Ideas in Your Organization (2010).

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