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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. I also want to talk about Deming’s emphasis on the big picture, the big problems.

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Process Behavior Charts are the Secret to Understanding the Organization as a System

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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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Tyranny of Metrics

Deming Institute

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.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

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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. They seek to change the system to change the behavior. In Profit Beyond Measure by H.

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Management by Extremes

Deming Institute

From waste to non-value-added efforts to defects, is less always better for the system at hand, striving for zero? That is, a more economically viable solution, in which the investment in variety is off-set by the systemic savings. Mind the Choice, consider the greater system at hand, and let context be your guide.

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News Flash: Innovation Is No Longer Just a Specialist’s Job. Now Here’s How to Involve Your Whole Workforce Instead

Strategy Driven

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.