Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

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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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. The entire system works together to create results. When we try and copy from one system and place it into another it is very unlikely to work well. When it does work well it is usually a very simple process that has few interactions or dependencies with the containing system.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice. Edwards Deming’s process management theory. Intermountain Healthcare is an integrated delivery system based in Utah and Idaho. Physicians led almost all of the changes themselves.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Much of my work focuses on involving people in activities and decisions about their work and how it will change as the technology they use changes. Many years after the curtain came down on my Camelot project, I was asked to lead the process / organization side of a large technology project. How did I figure this out?

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

But to enable them for better performance, to make them effective, a system needs to be created. A system comprising of interconnected processes that act as a tool people use to execute their work. In my view, when we create a system, it automatically addresses process, information flow and work flow. Vamsi´s last blog.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

While most strategy development efforts focus on content – or what one thinks, strategic thinking is driven by how one thinks – ie., Systems thinking (ie., The personal computer revolution was started by putting together existing technologies in a way never done before. the thinking behind the thinking. Future Oriented.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 28, 2015

I took this photo after presenting a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Boston (at the Boston Fine Arts Museum – see more photos ). The organization really should focus on improving the management system so it isn’t such a barrier to improvement. The benefits they bring are very hard to calculate.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. Beginning with early accounts of the prowess of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS), this article offers personal reflections on the fabric of TPS and present day explanations of Lean. Figure 1 – Production Viewed as a System.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. They keep customers happier.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Yet now, with Innovation Engineering – a data-driven, reliable system for creating fresh ideas and successfully turning them into reality – companies can transform innovation from a random act to a reliable science. Create systems that enable instead of control. It’s a system designed to enable innovation by everyone.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. From sales of iPhones to iPads to computers, Apple executives offered explanations for these results and predictions for the future. The value of profits as an ingredient for organizations to sustain and develop their operations is undeniable. Could it be that pragmatism depends on how one sees systems?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) To understand the strengths and weaknesses of different process religions, develop a network of people with experience in each one.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They develop action plans. reward processes and systems, A Value Based Management System has three principal objectives: Creating Value – How the company can increase or generate maximum future value; more or less equal to strategy. Move towards developing a long-term relationship with a single supplier.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? Edwards Deming). How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

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