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). Related: W.

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Deming Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. Improving Problem Solving by Ian Bradbury and Gipsie Ranney explores the example of this idea that Mike used in his presentation (NASA’s Challenger shuttle).

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. So the accounting system doesn’t run the company.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 18, 2016

Cornell Policy Review published a special issue exploring the application of systems thinking to public policy problems. Graduate students were given an introduction to systems thinking and then applied the concepts to address issues their field. Thinking Systemically about Worker Retention in Texas’ Child Protective Services.

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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. A critical first step in striving for the “right uniformity” is achieving processes which are predictable; otherwise known as stable.

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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. It requires a coherent system of management.

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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. But systems thinking has an entire body of knowledge that is useful. That is a powerful diagram.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Edwards Deming described the purpose of an organization in The New Economics , 1993, on page 51, as: The aim proposed here for any organization is for everybody to gain – stockholders, employees, suppliers, customers, community, the environment – over the long term. CONTINUE YOUR DEMING JOURNEY.

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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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Deming Institute

MARCH 9, 2017

Kentaro Toyama ‘s presentation at the 2016 Annual Deming Institute Conference – Geek Heresy: Technology’s Law of Amplification. One of the most common is that the system in which the solutions are put into place often work against just placing a solution that works in one context into another.

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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. The entire system works together to create results. The entire system works together to create results. See a longer quote with more context.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. My guess is in a very well operating software development system (focused on Deming, good software practices…) code review would not be needed to inspect for quality. Like many practices the form it takes can vary quite a bit.

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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

MAY 2, 2016

Kevin Cahill’s welcome message to 2015 Deming In Education Conference. Edwards Deming Institute. Decades after Dr. Deming said this common sense practice was ineffective some organization have agreed and dropped the practice. Edwards Deming – People Copy Examples and Wonder Why They Don’t Succeed.

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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

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

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. Continuous improvement (i.e.

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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. That thinking culminated in what he call the System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK). He never saw the individual items (for example, individual points in the 14 points) as discrete items. They work together as a system.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

David included a clip from one of my favorite shows, Utopia (called Dreamland in USA) with a vivid example of a performance appraisal experience. As David illustrates this tactic over and over results in people distorting the data and distorting the system under pressure to avoid punishment and get rewards. Those that learn from W.

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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. The article I quote from below provides a path to appreciating the ideas Dr. Deming and Dr. Shewhart were able to apply in their thinking from C.I. Lewis on Shewhart and Deming by G. Lewis: Influence of C.I.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Leadership’s example is critical. Yet, we have some leaders and practitioners who focus on only a few aspects of quality, to the detriment of the whole system. Focus on only some of the principles, practices, methods and tools cause us to miss the aim and purpose of an ethical system to deliver quality.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. We plan to use this blog to explore examples of management action today (using the lens of Deming’s ideas to view those actions) in order to help illustrate how Deming’s ideas can be put into practice.

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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Mike Duggan, now the mayor of Detroit, told a great story of how he discovered that he was the culprit responsible for wide ranging problems in the hospital system. 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.

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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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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

Edwards Deming famously remarked that “in God we trust, but everyone else should bring data.” The researchers found that the best-performing companies tended to make significant and complementary investments in their workforce, their IT systems, and their manufacturing processes. Strong returns.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 23, 2015

Edwards Deming in his last interview: ‘Management Today Does Not Know What Its Job Is. ‘ This quote is a wonderful view of Deming’s focus on the organization as a system versus the focus on individuals that is so common today. From our previous post: Managing the Organization as a System.

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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 system itself was actively discouraging cooperation and teamwork.

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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.” I still think that there is hope, and I see evidence of improvement in the healthcare delivery system in the future.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

It is a little daunting to stand up here and speak to you about quality and know that before me Dr. Deming is up here and then later this afternoon we are going to be hearing from Dr. Kano. As Dr. Deming says “ nobody gives a hoot about profit “… and we sit it all the time. He goes on to give a great example.

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Curious Cat

JULY 25, 2017

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. But as Deming quoted Lloyd Nelson as saying “ the most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable.”

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 21, 2016

Edwards Deming Institute podcast with Dr. Sophronia (Frony) Ward, Managing and Founding Partner of Pinnacle Partners , Process Behavior Charts are the Secret to Understanding the Organization as a System ( direct download ), is another in our understanding variation series. the overall system is sub-optimized. Frony Ward.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Edwards Deming. His circular model , “Production Viewed as a System,” features a feedback loop to link the activities of a production-based organization, from design to manufacturing, with materials from suppliers, to assembly and release to the customer. Production Viewed as a System. Edwards Deming in August 1950 in Japan.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2017

John – I have just read your column on performance reviews, with a reference to Dr. Deming’s teachings. As you have noted, Dr. Deming was not at all a fan of annual performance reviews. As a student of Deming’s management theory, I would like to provide you with added feedback on his views.

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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

JUNE 11, 2018

Muller’s The Tyranny of Metrics (2018) is a book that Dr. Deming would have surely appreciated. The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Few people understood measurement as well as Dr. Deming.

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Deming Institute

MAY 25, 2017

Edwards Deming’s Score for Leading, Performing, and Living in Concert , published in partnership with Aileron. Edwards Deming. An example of a system, well optimized, is a good orchestra. Edwards Deming. Appreciation for a system is a key component of his System of Profound Knowledge.

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