Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Might this proverb apply to systems leadership in schools, as well? Is “tunefulness” the optimal state for a system to best achieve its desired results? How might a leader promote a “tuneful harmony” so that the system that is neither too tightly or loosely “strung?”.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This short interview with Jim McIngvale (Mattress Mack), owner of Gallery Furniture, explores Deming’s continued influence on the management practices of Gallery Furniture. Dr. Deming taught us those type of things. The passion Mattress Mack has for customers and Dr. Deming comes through in this interview.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Previously published by Quality Digest. Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing the number of levels of management?” Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing the number of levels of management?”

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Deming System Travel Trends 50

Deming Institute

APRIL 1, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Edwards Deming Institute offers events for those interested in applying Deming’s management ideas in their organizations. Leading with a Systems View: Deming Management Method for Owners and Executives.

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Deming Institute

JULY 3, 2017

In his presentation at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar Joseph Schneider discusses his efforts to apply Deming’s ideas within Siemens. This is useful as this is true for nearly every (every one that I know of) attempt to apply Deming’s ideas on management.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 5, 2019

Dr. Deming used the Red Bead Experiment to clearly and dramatically illustrate several points about poor management practices. The Red Bead Experiment shows that even though a “willing worker” wants to do a good job, their success is directly tied to and limited by the nature of the system they are working within.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The phenomenon of "quiet quitting" (also called "employee disengagement") is frustrating leaders and managers across industries. But looking at the problem through the Deming lens means finding workable solutions that can strengthen relationships.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald Wheeler is an excellent book on, not surprisingly, the topic of understanding variation. I enjoy working with data and seeking to understand what I can learn from the data. LEARN MORE.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 26, 2013

I came across this great video clip from the W Edwards Deming Institute. JW Wilson presented ‘The Neuroscience of Deming’. If you want to transform a system, you can’t get there with the same knowledge you built it with. The neural structure that built the system, and it sucks, is going to re-build it so it sucks worse….

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LDRLB

JANUARY 16, 2019

At some point in your career as a manager, you’re going to have to manage a poor performing employee. Edwards Deming, the legendary organizational psychologist. Deming had a principle he called the 85/15 rule. As Deming liked to say “A bad system will beat a good person every time.”.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 5, 2019

Dr. Deming used the Red Bead Experiment to clearly and dramatically illustrate several points about poor management practices. The Red Bead Experiment shows that even though a “willing worker” wants to do a good job, their success is directly tied to and limited by the nature of the system they are working within.

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Deming Management Mayo Library 28

Deming Institute

JANUARY 7, 2020

We came together, as Deming people, to ensure that we can continue to carry on his work and teachings. FIVE DEMING GIFTS FOR YOU. During the Season of Generosity, we released five special Deming Gifts that we hope you will print, email, and share with others. Because of people like you, we raised $22,987! SUPPORT THIS BLOG.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 21, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Nicholas Fisher, University of Sydney, gave the 2019 ASA Deming Lecture – Walking with Giants: A Research Odyssey. In the presentation Nicholas shared his experience at a 4 day Deming seminar in Australia in 1991.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 21, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Balaji Reddie ’s presentation, Why Deming? Edwards Deming Institute Conference in 2018. A powerful point Balaji Reddie made during the presentation was that you learn about Deming’s ideas by applying them.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. I wrote a previous post on this blog about a paper he wrote about using Deming’s ideas at Intermountain Healthcare. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 7, 2019

The 20 most popular post on our blog this year (by page views reported by our analytic tool): Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). Appreciation for a System (2012). A Bad System Will Beat a Good Person Every Time (2015). The Deming Chain Reaction (2012). Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013).

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

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

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Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

ASQ has asked the Influential Voices on quality management to look at the question of integrating technical quality and human management systems. How do different systems—technical or human—work together? My view is that the management system must integrate these facets together.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Then he discusses the importance of understanding systems and why that requires a different type of thinking (synthesis). When you analyze a system you learn something but you don’t get understanding. You can watch part 2 here.

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System Management Deming Video 31

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Edwards Deming Institute® web site includes several articles exploring organizations that are applying Deming’s ideas. One of those articles looks at the efforts at New York Label & Box. When they started their efforts.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The video shows the presentation at our 2012 annual conference by David Langford – When Deming Goes to School, Learning Takes a Front Seat. Dr. Deming said your sources of power come from primarily 3 sources.

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Deming Institute

JULY 23, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows JW Wilson’s presentation, The Neuroscience of Deming, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Edwards Deming, in Out of the Crisis.

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Curious Cat

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Doing that is quite a bit more difficult than just pointing out all the problems that exist (in management and in society in general). His book, Fourth Generation Management, is one of the top handful of books I most recommend for those interested in improving the practice of management in their organization.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. This webcast shows Mike Tveite’s presentation, Deming 101, given at the 2012 Annual W. Edwards Deming Institute Conference. Edwards Deming’s The New Economics (page 94*): The system of profound knowledge provides a lens.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Then he discusses the importance of understanding systems and why that requires a different type of thinking (synthesis). When you analyze a system you learn something but you don’t get understanding. You can watch part 2 here.

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System Management Deming Video 28

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In this guest post Bill Bellows looks at recent layoff announcements from a Deming point of view. Who is responsible for company failures? What is Ford doing differently? What happens when companies target "poor performers" and how easy it is to "do the wrong thing right."

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Curious Cat

MAY 2, 2017

Organizations are social systems made up of people. Social systems often amplify what happens. To improve it is wise to this into account and design elements of the management system to encourage the amplification of what is good and that seeks to stop what is bad from being amplified. Continue reading →.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Edwards Deming Institute provides online access to a recording, from 1992, of Dr. Deming’s Four-Day Seminar. Edwards Deming presenting the Red Bead Experiment. Edwards Deming presenting the Red Bead Experiment.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 31, 2019

Follow up is what good managers do, you follow up for 2 reasons : People are doing what they are supposed to be doing. It turns out that the lack of follow up is pervasive , and many managers are busy. You, as a manager, have created an inward loop of a scramble because you have an inadequate follow-up process – that is your fault.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

From Dr. Deming’s last interview ; published in Industry Week magazine. The results of a system must be managed by paying attention to the entire system. When we optimize sub-components of the system we don’t necessarily optimize the overall system. Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?

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Deming Institute

MAY 4, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. It seems to me, the conference presentations available online (from OQPF and the Deming Institute and elsewhere) are a valuable resource that most managers fail to take advantage of.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 4, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Edwards Deming Institute® and W. Edwards Deming’s grandson). This new 3rd Edition (published 25 years after the 1st edition) also includes a new chapter by Kelly Allan : “Why Deming? … Why Now More than Ever?”

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Deming Long-term System Crisis 64

Deming Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. We have to take a systems view of results.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. The 20 most popular post on our blog this year (by page views reported by our analytic tool*): Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015). Deming’s 14 Points for Management (2013). The Deming Chain Reaction (2012).

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Deming Institute

MAY 7, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. This is one good tactic to use when introducing new management ideas.

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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. 25 years after this presentation, this is still true in my opinion. that will create problems for the organization.

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Human Resources Deming Resources System 47

Deming Institute

APRIL 13, 2017

Doug Hall,CEO and founder of Innovation Engineering , participated in a previous podcast on Using Systems Thinking to Power Strategy, Innovation and Growth. He returns to the Deming Institute podcast again ( download ) and he shares his approach for using innovation or leadership to improve management practices.

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