Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

Businesses that have a deep appreciation for what their customers, and potential customers, desire and that create systems to deliver solutions that delight those customers benefit greatly from that effort. And even within that system they can segment the offering a bit and create coach class, business class and first class.

Airlines 40

Airlines Class Price System 40

Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. They seek to change the system to change the behavior. Market Incentives: encourage more patient capital.

Short-term 28

Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

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.

Deming 28

Deming SWOT Root Cause Analysis TRIZ 28

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 9, 2017

While neither group may have heard of Alfred Politz , a pioneer in the field of market research, they would have surely appreciated his perspective on competition, borrowed by Dr. Deming for use on the opening page of The New Economics. “Nothing can do you so much harm,” Politz fancied, “as a lousy competitor.

Deming 28

Deming Proposal Learning-by-Doing Industry 28

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Edwards Deming). Every transaction and its associated value are visible to anyone with access to the system. Simply copying the banking systems of the West, which have been built up over centuries, would not have been as easy or as effective for the people of Kenya and Tanzania. The system currently serves a billion people.

Marketing 8

Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Capital raising strategies.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

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.

Six Sigma 58

Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Edwards Deming , who introduced quality as a way of life for Japanese companies. Microsoft was probably one of the earliest to see the value of this way of competing when it developed its operating system to be compatible for just about any make of personal computer. “Quality is free” became a mantra.

Six Sigma 8

Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8