Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We learned the quality lessons of Edward Deming, Joseph Juran, and Phil Crosby as well as the lean thinking lessons of James Womack. I was a part of a consulting team bringing six sigma and lean thinking to Lockheed-Martin. But pursuing incremental improvements while rivals reinvent the industry is like fiddling while Rome burns.”

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. If so, you should examine your management system. It is a bad sign and points to serious management problems. Point 10 on W.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan—but they don’t know what to copy! Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” Edwards Deming, The New Economics. People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble.

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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. That realization helped Moesta and his team begin to grasp the struggle potential home buyers faced. “I Dr. Deming would talk about the importance of knowing what business you were in.

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Deming Institute

JULY 31, 2017

At the time, I was a member of the company’s Continuous Improvement Team, a later version of a Total Quality Management Office. Or, thinking systemically, would we contemplate if additional improvements would yield a positive return on our overall investment, subject to the current market value of homes in our neighborhood.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 28, 2017

With our internships coming to an end, we invited our department manager to join us. Unlike the technical questions we answered all summer long, our manager took the opportunity to challenge us with a down-to-earth business question. Instead of the queries W.

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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

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. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. Reading hundreds of papers and interviewing leading product-management experts, he found himself intrigued by several provocative ideas.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The journey of the four decades, of growing from an entry-level professional to a leader among fellow professionals invariably calls for mastery over four things: the ability to efficiently manage resources, volume, complexity and finally, rainmaking. The days of the hippie tree huggers are over.

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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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