Deming Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. I realize finding an hour to watch these presentations may not be easy.

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Deming Institute

MAY 11, 2017

Edwards Deming at Western CT State University – February 1990. At about the 50 minute point in the presentation Dr. Deming includes an informative discussion on the system being responsible for most of the results (even though we often consider variation in results being due to individul’s efforts). Presentation by W.

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Deming Institute

MAY 14, 2015

Edwards Deming wrote Some Statistical Logic in the Management of Quality to fill in some of the missing links in the use of statistical methods, with special reference to responsibilities at the management level for effective mobilization of statistical knowledge and skills. Edward Deming was included in the paper.

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Deming Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Deming to the Editor of Time Magazine 1981; Dear Sir, Your article about Japan in TIME for 30 March 1981 is excellent, but the paragraph concerning my work is ridiculous and can do a lot of harm to American industry at the very time when they need guidance. Dr. Deming did not just give a lecture in 1950. He has made 19 trips to Japan.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 8, 2024

Edwards Deming famously remarked that while we may trust in god, everyone else should bring data. Using analytics properly People analytics is mostly used to figure out which qualities make the best managers and teams, and to find ways for them to grow. Now, companies are using people analytics in more parts of their business.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Among other things, this presentation is a good option for those seeking an example that provides historical business results of an organization practicing Deming management methods.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 17, 2017

As noted in my June 26 th post, “It Depends…” , when asked in February 1990 about the trend towards reducing the number of levels of management in organizations, Dr. Deming answered, in his usual Socratic fashion: “Why have more levels than you need?”.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Peter Scholtes shared his thoughts on Leading Quality: Some Practical Approaches to the Managers New Job at the 1992 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. Everything I’ve learned about quality, just about everything maybe 95% of what I know about quality, is either from Dr. Deming or Dr. Kano or their students.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 20, 2015

Gordon McGilton, director of a private equity fund with investment in multiple industries, discusses applying Deming’s management ideas at the companies they invest in. Gordon will be presenting the 4 Day Deming seminar with Heero Hacquebord 27 to 30 April in Columbus, Ohio. download the podcast ). It made sense to him.

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Deming Institute

MAY 2, 2016

Kevin Cahill’s welcome message to 2015 Deming In Education Conference. Edwards Deming Institute. Changing how we manage organizations has great impact. Decades after Dr. Deming said this common sense practice was ineffective some organization have agreed and dropped the practice. Kevin is the Director the The W.

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Curious Cat

JULY 25, 2017

When people try to use a short quote as an accurate encapsulation of a management concept they will often be disappointed. It is obvious that Dr. Deming believed that organizations failed to use data effectively to improve needed to change and use data effectively in order to thrive over the long term. Continue reading →.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. I am glad to see the Business Roundtable agreeing with Dr. Deming, a few decades later. I suggest that those looking to put these ideas into action learn about how Deming’s ideas create a management system that does this well.

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sports provides visible examples of the futility of accurate performance appraisal. We have athletes who thousands of people devote a huge amount of time to dissecting their strengths and weaknesses and those evaluations are constantly shown to be wrong. Teams are constantly paying free agents tens of millions that completely flop.

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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. Deming used the example of gravity.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. I think the “inspection” in code reviews is different enough that we can use code reviews as a valuable tool for managing software development. Like many practices the form it takes can vary quite a bit.

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Deming Institute

MAY 21, 2018

Beginning in 1951, the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded the Deming Prize to honor organizations, and later, individuals, for extraordinary accomplishments in quality management. Dr. Deming understood you didn’t use the same improvement thinking every time you wanted to improve.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Edwards Deming Institute You Tube channel are, not surprisingly, those with Dr. Deming in them. The videos with the most views since they have been added are: Dr. Deming – The 5 Deadly Diseases (1984) : 104,715 views (added 6 years ago). Edwards Deming: The 14 Points : 42,379 views (added 1 year ago). Related: W.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively. Related: Do You See What I See by Bill Bellows – W.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing. Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan—but they don’t know what to copy! Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?”

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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

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.” that is taking on the transformation of healthcare management. Here’s a simple example. I’ve seen these movements before.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Readers of this blog are aware of the problems created by using quotas: Achieved the goal by not the aim (2013) – The Futility of a Numerical Goal (2014) , Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (2013) , Dr. Deming on the problems with targets or goals.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

A recent blog by John Hunter, Ackoff on Systems Thinking and Management, highlights a collection of videos of lectures by Russell Ackoff, recently made available at this site. Edwards Deming in presentation after presentation, I was struck by a frequent phrase used by Thomas Clarke, a favorite high school teacher.

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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 management system creates a punishment mechanism for missing estimates by over 10%. The business team asks for estimates for software development.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In the most recent Deming Institute podcast Ron Moen and Cliff Norman , of Associates in Process Improvement (API), discuss their paper (to be published in 2016), “Evolution of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge” and the “journey of learning” Dr. Deming and they have experienced.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

This month Bill Troy, ASQ CEO, asked ASQ Influential Voices bloggers : “who influenced or inspired your management thinking and in what ways?” I have written about my management influences in the past: Active Management Improvement Leaders (2006) and Who Influences Your Thinking?

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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.” IT capital captures investments in data collection and computer hardware that can transmit, store, and analyze data, for example. Educated workers are known to be an essential ingredient for that system. Strong returns.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 18, 2016

Edwards Deming spent decades refining his thoughts on management and refining how to present those thoughts. He never saw the individual items (for example, individual points in the 14 points) as discrete items. Edwards Deming from his Japan lectures in 1950’s. They work together as a system. Knowledge of Variation.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Leadership’s example is critical. We only need to look at the recent news media to see examples like Wells Fargo, Takata, Enron, Volkswagen, the Veteran’s Administration, WorldCom, numerous auto-maker recalls. Ethics is the standard by which Americans measure their own behavior and that of institutions.”.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 28, 2019

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute, featuring highlights of an ongoing conversations with Ed Baker, author of The Symphony of Profound Knowledge (created in partnership with Aileron.org ), and a Trustee Emeritus of The Deming Institute. Episode #1. Continuous improvement (i.e.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It turned out that Mike’s management guidance to the Accounting department was the first cause of system breakdowns in several other places at DMC. Covey said, “The way we see the problem is the problem ,” and this is a perfect example. ” DMC did exactly as Deming suggested. Ask “Why” – until you can’t anymore.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. Thomas Johnson and Anders Broms, the authors provide many good thoughts on the problems of accounting measures and management. It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively. Related: Do You See What I See by Bill Bellows – W.

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Curious Cat

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

On the matter of the importance of promoting better management practices worldwide I agree there is a huge amount of work to be done. And there is a huge vacuum of resources for managers looking for information on how to do better. It is much worse when you aim to influence a global audience. ASQ can help fill that need.

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