Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

Edwards Deming, warned us of this pitfall. At this writing, the pressure to meet numerical performance goals is roiling the entire education profession. News outlets across the country reported indictments, confessions, and trials of educators who succumbed to the pressure and found a multitude of unethical ways to raise test scores.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2019

Dear Deming Community, Please join us in honoring the lives of these three men, who made countless contributions to the Deming community and society at large. A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko, Ph.D. Edwards Deming Award for quality, which he received in 1996. May they rest in peace. Latzko, Ph.D. 1947 – 2019).

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. In reflecting on the popularity of lean, I offer a proposal to those who provide both educational resources and qualifications to lean practitioners. In this spirit, I am often reminded that historians are guided by how they are trained to interpret.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 25, 2018

Of all of Deming ‘s work, I think the bit with the most potential impact is also the bit that Deming kept close to his vest because it doesn’t advocate company growth as an aim , and his clients would not have understood. Note that Deming does advocate personal growth, which I think of as development.

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Deming Institute

JULY 16, 2018

Mike Rose is a faculty member at the UCLA Graduate School of Education. No stranger to community service, he has run job training and literacy programs for low-income communities and returning Vietnam Vets. Like Dr. Deming, Professor Rose is not afraid to move between academia and the world outside and seek a broader systems view.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Restructure training. Develop increased in-service education. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop the concept of tutors.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen, and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. To that end, Dr. Deming might well ask, “By what method” can we determine the “right” things to do? ” Want More?

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Deming Institute

APRIL 6, 2017

That includes training and educating people to gain the understanding and ability to do this successfully. Ian also echoed the importance of simply plotting data over time as Lynda Finn discussed in a previous Deming Institute Podcast with Lynda Finn: The Value of the Simple Run Chart.

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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. That is the wrong sequence, the right sequence is quality and then time and then cost and then new products.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

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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Deming Institute

AUGUST 3, 2015

Steven, President of New York Label & Box Works , discusses their Deming journey over the decades. You need to provide education on how to think of the organization as a system and how to continually improve. New York Label & Box Works has been applying Deming’s ideas for 30 years. Give them the right materials.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. 14 Deming principles. Deming System of Profound knowledge. 6) Institute modern methods of training on the job. 13) Institute a vigorous program of education and training. Processes.

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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 cautioned against clinging to examples , and for good reason. But many people like to learn about how others have applied Deming’s ideas.

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Curious Cat

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Edwards Deming address this issue. Very few organizations take the nearly enough time to train and educate employees. If you want to create a culture of continual learning and improvement you almost certainly need to focus much more on education and learning than you are.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Appoint a top-level, full-time coordinator to train, coach, and assist in the transformation. Train all organizational leaders in Quality Leadership.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The seminar was on using Deming’s ideas to improve education. I wasn’t in the education field, but I believe what I wrote about earlier: we don’t need to restrict our management learning to our industry. I attended a 4 day seminar by David Langford about 15 years ago.

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management. Institute training on the job. Institute education and self-improvement. He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Adopt the new philosophy.

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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. We quickly discovered that on-the-job training in real combat has tragic results.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 22, 2014

Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management. Institute training on the job. Institute education and self-improvement. He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Adopt the new philosophy.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management. Institute training on the job. Institute education and self-improvement. He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Adopt the new philosophy.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 12, 2018

Dr. Deming’s 13th Point for Management tells us to institute a vigorous program of education and self-improvement for everyone. I know without a doubt what he’s learned by his own initiative and curiosity is more valuable than any training or orientation program I could have developed. Be supportive.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 14, 2016

“Institute training on the job” is point 8 in W. Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Dr. Deming’s management system was focused on creating a work environment that allowed people to take pride in their work by letting them contribute fully. A quote from W. People naturally want to do well.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

After the country's annual policy planning meeting, Minister of Commerce Chen Deming announced that Beijing would soon reduce tariffs and cut red tape on luxury goods imports. Louis Vuitton stores deploy specialists who educate Chinese shoppers about the company's heritage and how it crafts leather goods by hand. The real thing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. The contrast was driven home by a full-blown reenactment of Deming’s famous red bead experiment.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

One of the best summaries of Quality Management was written my Edward Deming: Create consistency of purpose toward the improvement of product and service, and communicate this goal to all employees. Institute extensive on-the-job training. Institute a program of education and self-improvement. Training and development.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Needed repairs and upgrades were delayed, worker training postponed, and risk assessments overlooked. They all involve an iterative, continual improvement process that have as their operating principle the Plan Do Check Act cycle (or the Plan Do Study Act cycle, sometimes called the “Deming Wheel”) widely in use today.

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