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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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Innovation can take many forms from operational innovation to business models and creating platforms. And finally, a nugget of wisdom that outlines the path to success in a networked world: In a networked world, the surest path to success is not acquiring and controlling assets, but widening and deepening connections.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 17, 2017

Edwards Deming’s 14th point is: Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. You can also find quotes by Dr. Deming, such as: “As I use the term here, the job of a leader is to accomplish transformation of his organization.” The transformation is everybody’s job.

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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

JUNE 30, 2020

Stephen Covey similarly described this concept using the metaphor of a ladder, stating, ”Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall” (Covey, 2011). BE the first to find out about Deming community events, updates, and learning opportunities.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 25, 2016

He starts the presentation with the Red Bead Game (see related posts on our blog: Lessons From the Red Bead Experiment with Dr. Deming , The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Edwards Deming ). Deming’s proposal was this. I don’t want a surgeon to operate on me that doesn’t know anatomy. I hated it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. Companies can be successful and safe at the same time. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. At Cummins, Inc.,

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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. Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones.

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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 cautioned against clinging to examples , and for good reason. But many people like to learn about how others have applied Deming’s ideas.

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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 easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success. Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. ….

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. The first-generation of the learning organization reached its nadir with the continuous improvement movement launched by W.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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Deming Institute

JULY 9, 2015

If you bring in a new effort to focus on customers and solicit more feedback if you don’t get an increase in complaints that is likely not an indication of success but an indication of failure. If you do not you will draw faulty conclusions. Data is important.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Accelerate performance… learn and leverage this secret tool to organizational success.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. Managing for Value – Governance, change management, organizational culture, communication, leadership. time management.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Yet most reports, such as John Kotter's classic Harvard Business Review article " Leading Change: Why Transformation Effort Fail ," show that few attempts at fundamental change are very successful, a few are utter failures, and most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt to failure. Because they are successful.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Some of the things that management identified as having been deficient in prior initiatives included that leadership changes had prevented consistency and carry-over, programs didn't attempt to change employee behavior, and middle managers didn't embrace the initiatives. Here's this new approach. No one has looked at things quite this way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Edwards Deming , the guru of total quality management, called this "driving out fear.". This subliminally drives the idea that change is positive and leads to personal success. He felt this was necessary to encourage employees to identify all the changes the company needed, including those which might disrupt their jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Edwards Deming , the guru of total quality management, called this "driving out fear.". This subliminally drives the idea that change is positive and leads to personal success. He felt this was necessary to encourage employees to identify all the changes the company needed, including those which might disrupt their jobs.

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