Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott first encountered Deming’s ideas while an engineer at Proctor & Gamble in 1986. Deming training was rolled out to us. It provided some very innovative and realistic solutions to solve a lot of problems in the plant. He taught the Deming principles to his new company and they were readily embraced.

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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. This kind of data can also show where there are problems in areas like engineering, making new products, and running factories. It’s a mindset that has underlined the recent desire to have data underpin decision-making.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Employees need to understand how customers actually use their product or service. Edward Deming, page 7 of the New Economics. Doing so also contributes to the Deming Chain Reaction (adding more and more jobs over time). And then they need to use this knowledge to continually improve the value delivered to customers.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Edwards Deming-based quality program within a particular trucking company, Mason Transporters. And such an aim is required for any Deming based effort. Total Quality Management in Logistics: a case study from the trucking industry by Harry Lehman, Jr. (a a thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School). The thesis aims to.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 10, 2017

We would all be better off if more companies would focus on the needs of their customers and how to continual improve their products and services to meet those needs. And then the company must use their knowledge of customer needs and the possibilities to innovate. This requires planning ahead.

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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.” And certain production environments provide richer data due to the processes they use.”. The results were then cross-referenced with data, including production inputs and outputs for the firm. Strong returns.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We all went to school on how the Japanese transformed a rotten “made in Japan” reputation synonymous with junk into one that represented the pinnacle of zero defects products. We learned the quality lessons of Edward Deming, Joseph Juran, and Phil Crosby as well as the lean thinking lessons of James Womack.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This webcast shows Steve Haedrich’s presentation, The System of Profound Knowledge Applied to Sales and Marketing, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. He also emphasized the importance of explaining the possibilities of innovation to their clients. He talks about innovation being driven by the producer, not the consumer.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Edwards Deming Institute 2014 conference – Deming’s Stage 0: By What Method? Edwards Deming teaching a 2 week course on consumer research in Japan in 1951: that course included a section titled “the art of questioning and interviewing.” Ron Moen’s presentation at The W. Ron talks about W.

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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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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.” posted at Lead Your Team , saying, “Team leadership Involves helping your team to identify the baggage that they need to let go of in order to become more productive together…” Lisa Kohn presents There is no try, only do. ” John R.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Janna Rust presents Procrastination and Productivity posted at Purposeful Leadership , saying, "What are you procrastinating with right now? Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.". Have you ever thought about how it affects you? Lisa Kohn presents There is no try, only do. There is no do, only be.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 24, 2017

There are many reasons I support and wish to see the wider adoption of Deming’s ideas. My life would be better if I could replace companies that force me to put up with the results of their poor management system with companies practicing Deming’s ideas. Deming available online and in other ways.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

If it takes you a long time to learn the new way of thinking and doing things, you fear being punished for your lack of productivity. Edwards Deming. Edgar Schein. Fear invites wrong figures. Fear invites wrong figures. Bearers of bad news fare badly. To keep his job, anyone may present to his boss only good news. – What would you add?

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

While my work is usually associated with the term “Lean” and the lessons from the Toyota Production System, some of my earliest learning and inspiration for improvement came from the work of W. Edwards Deming. Why had I heard of Dr. Deming? Guest post by Mark Graban.

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Deming Institute

MAY 9, 2016

Here is a long document looking at Deming’s ideas, written by Raphael Vitalo – Deming Revisited: The Real Quality Model for Commerce. The document explores Dr. Deming’s ideas in depth and provides the authors viewpoint. Deming’s definition of leadership—i.e., In my opinion, it is an interesting read.

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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. When we buy a product, we essentially “hire” it to help us do a job. If it does the job well, the next time we’re confronted with the same job, we tend to hire that product again.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Your team will be happier and more productive as a result.” Edwards Deming Institute , provided the podcast Transforming The Organization – With David Langford. Follow The Deming Institute on Twitter at @DemingInstitute. Bruce says, “Appreciation is a powerful leadership tool. John Hunter , on behalf of the W.

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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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Deming Institute

MAY 5, 2016

In this post I discuss another wonderful paper by Dr. Deming. Edwards Deming Institute makes this paper, and many more, available on our website. Edwards Deming, 1954: For all four groups of people [management, statistical administration, research, front-line workers], the statistical method is more than an array of techniques.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs. Edwards Deming, Point 1 or the 14 points for management , page 23 of Out of the Crisis. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis, page 25. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis, page 26.

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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. That doesn’t mean you can’t make mistakes, for sure it will be hard to build a perfect product. 14 Deming principles. Deming System of Profound knowledge. How to apply the model. 20 SME Steps.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. They need information that shows when to take action, not just figures that describe the level of production and the level of mistakes in the past.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2017

I was happy to see John Hunter share the article on the Deming Institute blog last year , along with some context. The SHS journal article starts with a brief introduction, not in the original document, by Dr. Deming that summarizes the key points, all of which are still relevant today. The lesson learned? Many hands go up.

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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 ). And maybe I am wrong and they really have all sorts of great things they are doing to meet customer needs in innovative ways. The benefits they bring are very hard to calculate.

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Edwards Deming, so appreciating the importance of a systemic view is to be expected. This requires an understanding gained at the user gemba (to truely understand what customers are trying to achieve and how your product or service facilitates them doing so successfully and how it could be improved).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. They keep customers happier. They enjoy their work more.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

seeing cause and effect patterns within your environment, peoples’ behaviors and even within yourself … such as “when I take 5 minutes to plan daily, I have a more productive, focused day.”). These leaders are innovators. Patterns recognition (ie., Example of Future-oriented Thinking: According to Dr. W. Differences–Oriented.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 30, 2012

Apart from the high costs and squandered opportunity, a failed reorganization can leave an enterprise even worse off than it was before , with lost productivity, a weakened market position, and a disengaged workforce, among other impacts.” This all starts with the fundamental premise that “form follows function.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. struggled to compete with higher quality products from Japan in many industries.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Innovation and experimentation become organizational values. The city begins a quality and productivity (QP) improvement program. Edwards Deming, Philip B. This step is an ongoing process—it is continuous improvement within the organization. Transformational goals are reached and there are data to prove successes.

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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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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. Most innovation methods don’t actually result in innovative solutions.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job.

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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. Disruptive innovation practitioners have just such a tool for reliably predicting customers’ behavior. Briefly, the idea is this: Consumers don’t go to the store to buy products.

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