Deming Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2016

One of the items Toyota highlights on their web site is winning the Deming Prize in 1965. Professor Deming and Toyota President Fukio Nakagawa at the Deming Prize award ceremony (1965). From the Toyota website: Receiving the Deming Application Prize strengthened Toyota Motor Co.,

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. Two people who had worked with the team as temporary employees for 6 months were included in those we interviewed.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Software code review is the practice of reviewing the software code written by colleagues on your software development team. Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

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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. He mentions that after providing great training Proctor & Gamble’s management system was very reluctant to adopt the better management methods. Scott Dalgleish.

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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.” Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.” William Matthies presents Instead, How About. Have you ever thought about how it affects you?

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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.". Janna Rust presents Procrastination and Productivity posted at Purposeful Leadership , saying, "What are you procrastinating with right now? William Matthies presents Instead, How About.

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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. I suspect this stroke of timesaving brilliance was born out of a not-so-unusual concern about productivity or output.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

One manager said “ Sometimes you have to make an example of someone to show people that the change you want is going to happen.”. The managers nodded. The managers nodded…. 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.

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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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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

They hoped favorite teams would win, a cinderella would emerge from the lower seeded teams, and in some cases, that friendly wagers would go their way. Management changes, or our strategic plan is rebuffed, or people simply don’t perform the way we think they will. Your team will be happier and more productive as a result.”

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 14, 2019

Guest post by Mustafa Shraim , ASQ Fellow and Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology and Management, Ohio University. Variation is life or life is variation ” is how Dr. Deming described the extent of what we observe in our personal and work outcomes. It is the wrong reaction to the type of variation observed!

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. 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.”. Phillip Crosby.

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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

APRIL 15, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Peter Scholtes shared his thoughts on A Practical Approach to Change: Some Strategies and Tools at the 1991 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. Respect people enough to woo them, to listen to them, to involve them in change.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, defined quality as “pride in workmanship.” We must move beyond quality in the product, the individual and the organization, and toward a broader cultural movement as a society, and that starts with our children. They were continually improving as a team. References.

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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

MARCH 2, 2017

In this presentation Dan Jones discusses what we (with an understanding of Deming’s ideas) can see as an aspect of the Deming chain reaction : Focusing on quality and then time the consequence is that we lower costs. That is the wrong sequence, the right sequence is quality and then time and then cost and then new products.

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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. Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 19, 2017

Jim Benson’s presentation at our 2015 International Deming Research Seminar explored how to manage the workload better to improve results. We want to help people become happy so that they will build better products. Years of top down, Taylorist-style management has given us bit of learned helplessness.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), Between teams. Between members of the teams. Work flows from one team member to the other. Because, work flows horizontally.

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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. 3) Be agile by delegating tasks and trusting your team. 7) Work in teams.

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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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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

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

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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Deming Institute

JUNE 8, 2017

Fixing” culture by traditional management methods reminds me of a week in Vegas: blow a bunch of money, do things I wouldn’t normally do, and walk away trying to figure out what just happened. The culture we know through our traditional management lens is often described in terms of people, the work environment, and perks, to name a few.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Edwards Deming, The New Economics. He and his upstream and downstream peers were challenged by their manager, in competition with their “teammates,” to reduce the cycle time of each of their tasks. Their efforts are interdependent.”. Negative synergy strikes again!

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The Practical Leader

JULY 20, 2011

To win today, you have to delight and astound your customers — with products and services that far exceed their expectations.&# The first two rings (my last two blog posts) deal with things — technology, products, services, systems, processes, structures, and so on. In virtually every organization it’s management.

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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.”). Patterns recognition (ie., Example of Future-oriented Thinking: According to Dr. W.

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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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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. 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.

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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. Just look at the ‘product of origin’ information on an Apple device.

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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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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

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. But, do organizations solely exist to earn profits or meet financial goals, or, are their profits the result of how well they invest their resources, from innovation to revenue and equipment, and then deliver new and improved products or services? Post by Bill Bellows. billion and a quarterly net profit of $7.7

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