QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi Subroto Bagchi ’s book “ The High Performance Entrepreneur ” has shaped up my entrepreneurial thinking to a very large extent. The gentleman was explaining why process orientation is the key to building competitive success.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 20, 2018

Edwards Deming (1952). I have written about importance of customer focus to Deming’s ideas in several previous blog posts, including: Customer Focus with a Deming Perspective , User Gemba and the most important customer focus is on the end users. But in fact that idea is extremely powerful. Edward Deming.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Powered by WordPress. Quote from this amazing video “A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers” where Deming and Ackoff discuss quality transformation by developing an understanding of the properties and powers of systems-oriented thinking…you can the read the original post from Curious Cat Management Improvement.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

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. Deming considers slogans to be just another form of exhortation.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Another aspect of the paradox is that senior executives and business owners who have the power to transform the management system most likely are in their current positions because of their success applying that system. Deming never told people that they had to accept his ideas. Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Edwards Deming once wrote that a system needed to be managed, for without management the “parts” tend to act in their own interests and “sub-optimize” the system. Anyone who takes a systems perspective with regard to educational leadership likely understands and appreciates the power of these words.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 26, 2017

Managing a software development team is a completely different job from being a great software developer. A company with a Deming based management system actually will provide relevant education and experience to all employees that will benefit new managers (much more than most organizations do).

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Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

In this presentation Dan Jones discusses what we (with an understanding of Deming’s ideas) can see as an aspect of the Deming chain reaction : Focusing on quality and then time the consequence is that we lower costs. As John Shook summarizes, the power of all of this is actually learning is the work.

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

As I moved into high school Dad was doing much more direct management consulting (it was also a combination of statistics, engineering and management but the emphasis shifted over time) based on Deming’s ideas. They can also be powerful tools to connect people to internal resources within your organization.

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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

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. That is a powerful diagram. Going into this area was much more common in the Deming community decades ago (when W.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The seminar was on using Deming’s ideas to improve education. But I do think it is a vastly superior way to manage career development, training, certification, coaching, education… in organizations. I recognize new problems and can develop new tools to solve them.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Top leaders required to develop a plan to demonstrate their advocacy for Quality Leadership methods and the goals of the transformation. This step is an ongoing process—it is continuous improvement within the organization. You may ask what the role of Quality Leadership was in the transformational process? Sustain the effort!

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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. Authors James D. Murphy and William M. Pilots got a lot better. About the Authors James D.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. Competition and customer demands mean that the most efficient and effective process should always be sought — but finding it requires contributions from the people doing the work.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. Competition and customer demands mean that the most efficient and effective process should always be sought — but finding it requires contributions from the people doing the work.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

New process improvement initiatives tend to start with some hype. Finally: "This may sound like process improvement programs that failed here before, but believe me, this is much better. Companies that practice process improvement have been victims of this hype cycle for decades. Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

We struggle to provide powerful business cases for improving data quality that command attention and focus the effort. Given the growing importance of data to every aspect of their business, they know they must develop an understanding of the costs of poor data quality, shortcomings in the methodology notwithstanding.

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”. Deming opined that everything that is critical for business performance may not be measurable. Well said, Tanmay!

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 7, 2016

The Software Process and Measurement Cast 420 features an interview with me, by Thomas Cagley, on Building Organizational Capability (download podcast). Building a Great Software Development Team. Thomas Cagley: If you have the power to change any 2 things that affect decision making what would they be and why?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Automating poorly performing processes, in any industry, never yields good results. Edwards Deming , "automating a process that produces junk just allows you to produce more junk faster.". While the health care community has taken important first steps , it needs to move in a more comprehensive, powerful, and urgent fashion.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2010

I am very proud to be a part of a wonderful community of leadership bloggers and am grateful to Dan McCarthy (for his insights and for hosting Leadership Development Carnival), to Mary Jo Asmus , Becky Robinson (be sure to check out her new blog ) and Wally Bock. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Welcome to the November, 2012 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Edwards Deming Institute Blog , serves up Appreciation for a System in the Deming Context. " Edwards Deming Institute Blog , serves up Appreciation for a System in the Deming Context. " John Hunter , from The W. Mike Henry Sr.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

For a long time, the Silicon Valley funding model has been hailed as a powerful alternative to the stifling way corporate America works. Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. Consider China’s Tencent.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Edwards Deming, engineer and management consultant. “He clearly articulated the importance of building a management system that was effective and continually improving. Social engineering was developed in response to racial inequities in the justice system. ” – Albert Einstein. – Follow John. Follow Artika.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The prime focus of this carnival is people development – and I have the honor of reviewing three amazing HR and leadership development bloggers – all of whom I have learned something significant from in this year - and list some of their best posts in 2010. Some very valuable career advice there. John Hunter´s last blog.

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