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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

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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Healthcare, Paradigm Shifts and the Influence of W.E. Deming

Deming Institute

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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Learning to Discern – Quality & Quantity

Deming Institute

A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. Edwards Deming. Variation appears in how well the parts are eventually integrated into a system and, how well the system performs, day after day. Post by Bill Bellows. The basic problem anywhere is quality.

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Our Aim, Vision and Values

Deming Institute

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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Iterative Customer Focus

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming (1952). Put it on the market. Test it in service; through market research, find out what the user thinks of it, and why the non-user has not bought it. Like many of Deming’s ideas the idea of iterative customer focus can seem too simple to be very powerful. Edward Deming. … New Way.

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We Need to Apply Quality Improvement Lessons to Safety

The Practical Leader

As I fine tune next week’s Leadership and Culture Development for Higher Health and Safety webcast presentation, I’ve been reflecting on the lessons learned from the quality movement and the widespread failure to apply those to workplace safety. “Sloganeering” and Internal Marketing.

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Tom Rudmik: Thriving in the World of Massive Change

Deming Institute

This webcast shows Tom Rudmik’s presentation, Thriving in the World of Massive Change, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. The world has changed and we need a totally new system of education. Most reform attempts, such as “no child left behind,” have focused on treating the symptoms of the system and not the real problem.

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