Deming Institute

OCTOBER 6, 2017

John – I have just read your column on performance reviews, with a reference to Dr. Deming’s teachings. As you have noted, Dr. Deming was not at all a fan of annual performance reviews. As a student of Deming’s management theory, I would like to provide you with added feedback on his views.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 10, 2017

Some years ago, W’s management saw fit to expand the purview of “performance management” to include employees’ personal business: employees spending more than 6 minutes a day in the restroom risk being written up. Imagine the unintended consequences of operation “haste makes waste:” trashed restrooms and unwashed hands.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A Edwards Deming . There is not a day I don’t think about what Dr. Deming meant to us. Deming is the core of our management.”. His plan was to have the final assembly team disassemble these cars and learn first-hand how well they assembled. .”

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Students ran operations. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, defined quality as “pride in workmanship.” Deming said that competition squeezes out intrinsic motivation while collaboration nurtures intrinsic motivation, curiosity and joy in learning. They were continually improving as a team.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

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 begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. Experimental Police District (EPD) planning team is created.

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

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

when the going got tough, why weren’t we looking more closely at the basics first – the foundations of team effectiveness ? I used to believe the secret sauce of strong project teams –and their effectiveness– was chemistry. The project had been operational for a few months when I joined so the foundation had already been poured.

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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?” People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.

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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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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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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. His plan was to have the final assembly team disassemble these cars and learn firsthand how they were assembled.

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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. He also serves as a consultant to process and continuous improvement management programs.

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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. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job. We live in a complex world.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Edwards Deming wrote: "A bad system will defeat a good person, every time." It is the minimum ratio of positive to negatives that has to exist for a team to flourish. On higher-performing teams (and marriages for that matter) the ratio jumps to 5:1. The experiment was stopped early. The lesson? But is the opposite true?

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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. Improved operational performance will result in fewer injuries. ” It worked.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. The Future of Operations. Michael Power of the London School of Economics describes the resulting explosion of bureaucracy as “the risk management of everything.” Both of these stories hold lessons for operations now and in the future.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). Thus, today we have a number of process "religions": Statistical Process Control was followed by Total Quality Management, Business Reengineering, Six Sigma, Lean, and Business Process Management (BPM, which emphasizes process management software).

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2017

The bigger be the coverage, the bigger be the possible benefits, plus the more difficult to manage. Edwards Deming, The New Economics. Even if I had one, in all likelihood it would be a video of a simulated assembly operation of a rocket engine. The aim must include plans for the future.”

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. The value of profits as an ingredient for organizations to sustain and develop their operations is undeniable. In his 1993 book, The New Economics , he posed “Profits must exist, and industry must work as a team in which all participants, large and small, prosper.” Further , “The boundary of a system….may

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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. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Dr. Deming explained that the organization was a system that included the suppliers and customers. You need to manage and continually improve that entire system. What matters is how you operate. Point 4 in W. You need to treat them as partners.

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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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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. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Left brainers are critical to accomplishing the engineering, finance, production and operational work that’s required to make meaningful change happen. Edwards Deming, a renowned systems specialist, observed: “Ninety-four percent of problems are caused by the system — 6 percent by the workers.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

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. Instead of merely digitizing magazine content, managers built a number of web-based platforms. Similar to Cosmo , Glamour , and GQ.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

As a manager, you're supposed to follow the standards, and if something doesn't work, you change the standards. Management consultant and friend Dave Laveman, who specializes in unexamined assumptions that drive performance, has this to say: "Business is full of either/or scenarios, and in too many cases they present a false choice.

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