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 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

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

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.” My goal was to find out why this body of knowledge seemed to be absent. that is taking on the transformation of healthcare management.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.” Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. William Matthies presents Instead, How About. ” John R.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.". Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. She also provides a practical 4-step process to make a change in your attitude.".

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Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Key to Building a Vibrant Organization and a Success Driven Team An owner of a small to midsize company, an executive within a large corporation, or a middle manager directing people to get the work done, all want the same thing: people consistently delivering high levels of performance and cooperating with each other to achieve team objectives.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. The same could be said for a quality goal of 6.3 I also took advantage of an opportunity to meet Dr. Deming during his February 1990 lectures at Western Connecticut State University. Deming is the core of our management.” . per million opportunities.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” I was happy to see John Hunter share the article on the Deming Institute blog last year , along with some context. I’ve seen many organizations progress from blaming those nameless jerks in another department to working together toward the goal of better patient care.

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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. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. Get buy-in from top department managers. This step must be passionately led by the top leader.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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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’s process management theory. Edwards Deming cautioned against clinging to examples , and for good reason.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 6, 2017

Over the past few years, Air Force One CEO Greg Guy did away with commission pay for all sales associates and general managers. Rather than focusing on sales goals or credit, they would measure system inputs — number of new leads, number of opportunities, etc., — trying to reach certain metrics, and then all share in the results.

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Deming Institute

JULY 23, 2017

Sparky Anderson , manager of the Cincinnati Reds during most of the 1970s, spoke on occasion about the big problem he had with his Major League Baseball team. The answer to the “resource management” question is usually zero.

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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. You need to use reliable processes for action and continually improve your processes based on studying your results. 14 Deming principles. Deming System of Profound knowledge. Processes.

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Deming Institute

JULY 12, 2017

Ben did well in school in the early years-when the AIM was on the learning , something, I’ve learned from Dr. Deming, we are all conditioned to do well in our early years. Earlier this year, David was honored by ASQ with the Deming Medal for his 30+ year legacy of advocating the use of Deming management in education.).

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 29, 2016

Edwards Deming’s 14 obligations of management have opponents that argue the reverse is wise. Instead the reason so many organizations suffer from the costs of significant barriers between departments is that the overall management system results in behavior that creates barriers between departments.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2012

Let's dispense, once and for all, with the managerial absurdity known as "stretch goals." While it's true that renowned psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham described goal setting as "the most effective managerial tool available," it's also true that no less a thinker than W.E. Stretch goals can be terribly demotivating.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 28, 2015

I took this photo after presenting a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Boston (at the Boston Fine Arts Museum – see more photos ). The organization really should focus on improving the management system so it isn’t such a barrier to improvement. So if your purpose is to improve management you need to address that.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

Old dogs will learn new tricks when the lead dog — or ape, or penguin, depending on the management fable of the moment — shows them off. The workers, the managers, and even the executives look around to see if their environment has changed, if the tried-and-true behaviors that made their world work will continue to do so.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2014

Regardless of the specific players, the process looks much the same; typically, we wait, and wait, and wait until the strategy feels iron tight. The goal is to get a big gold star for having produced a wonderful, perfect strategy. Leadership Managing yourself Strategy'

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The ‘Invisibles’ in Business Performance In world of quality and management, W. 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 ”.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Is faster always better? Might there sometimes be value in a middle ground goal? In consideration of a greater system, is less variation always better, with a goal of zero? What would happen to my body of these goals were simultaneously achieved? Can the same be said for cycle time? Does context matter?

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Avoid numerical goals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. With inadequate equipment , others rushed in to save their colleagues. ” It worked.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer People Focus - 2010 Management Improvement Carnival Samba Carnival at Helsinki 2009 - Photo by Tanmay Vora Some of my most significant learning in quality and continuous improvement have come from John Hunter’s Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Some very valuable career advice there.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Edwards Deming Institute Blog , serves up Appreciation for a System in the Deming Context. " A reader asks how a manager can become more professional and get the respect of her employees.". Anna Farmery , from The Engaging Brand, submits 5 Truths about Profit as a Goal. "We John Hunter , from The W.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement suggests the late W. Edwards Deming, engineer and management consultant. “He clearly articulated the importance of building a management system that was effective and continually improving. .” – Albert Einstein. – Follow John. They get it!

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 10, 2019

Deming took this one step further by postulating that every system must have an aim. Take departmental goal setting as an example in business. Each department is out for itself, trying to be number one by hitting its goals , versus thinking about what’s right for the overall system of which it is a part.

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