Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. Edwards Deming . There is not a day I don’t think about what Dr. Deming meant to us. Deming is the core of our management.”. Phillip Crosby.

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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

MARCH 9, 2017

Kentaro Toyama ‘s presentation at the 2016 Annual Deming Institute Conference – Geek Heresy: Technology’s Law of Amplification. This idea is very familiar to those of us using Dr. Deming’s ideas. From the website for Kentaro’s book, Geek Heresy.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused. Edwards Deming’s discussion on truly understanding the needs of customers and also Russell Ackoff’s ideas on seeking solutions by looking at the larger containing system.

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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. It is also a bit amusing to see the Chamber of Commerce pushing an idea Deming was called unrealistic for proposing.” Market Incentives: encourage more patient capital. Transparency: strengthen investor disclosures.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. But Dr. Deming understood the damage targets cause. Edwards Deming, quotes in Profits Beyond Measure by H. Point 10 on W.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

For example, how a teacher is going to be evaluated may influence the timing and methods of assessing student learning as well as content coverage in courses. Related: What Role Does/Should The Deming System of Profound Knowledge Play in the World of “Big Data”? And, the implications are not limited to one direction.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 23, 2016

Boarding passes can make sense (though I do question some of that whole process conceptually this could be a good example of a app with no functional website). Certainly smart phones are a huge and rapidly growing market. Driving instructions and live maps using GPS to locate you is another great app use.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

. “The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market,” shows that nearly all job growth since 1980 has been in occupations that are relatively social skill-intensive — and it argues that high-skilled, hard-to-automate jobs will increasingly demand social adeptness. labor force over the past three decades.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 12, 2011

Luxury goods marketers in China received some good news last month. 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. The Chinese market for luxury products has been booming recently.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

He took a carmaker arguably within sight of going out of business in 1998 and led the creation of what Bill Holstein (writing in Strategy+Business ) describes as "a coherent mix of quality improvement, design, and marketing that gives Hyundai a clear advantage over its industry competitors." Watch the Roman Catholic Church.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Edwards Deming , who introduced quality as a way of life for Japanese companies. For example, newspapers and magazines have always heavily subsidized their “users” (readers) in order to provide more benefits to their “customers” (advertisers). Scale and efficiency are mostly about competing by lowering costs.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2014

Growth alternatives usually involve either launching new products or entering new markets, and these are activities where uncertainty is high. A stereotypical example would go more or less like this: Managers gather the data that reinforce their own point view on what they believe is the right business decision.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

The most visible example of leapfrogging today is in nations like Kenya and South Africa , which have rolled out near-universal telephone access using 3G networks instead of laying down copper cables, and provided internet access by smartphone rather than with desktop PCs. Edwards Deming). The system currently serves a billion people.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Or, would it be better to remove color as a potential market place differentiator and, instead, offer “Any color you like, as long as it’s white”? For example, a friend once shared her work goal of recruiting, week after week, new members to a health club. Can the same be said for cycle time? Is faster always better?

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Enhance customer service.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. This specific example also highlights what I classified as a new deadly disease in 2007 – the broken patent and trademark system. Decades ago W. One of those was excessive health care costs. Sadly that deadly disease has become much worse in the last several decades.

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