QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Start ups are organized around a brand new idea but they often stumble when it comes to execution. Add to this, the challenges of hyper-competitive landscape, organization cultures, shortage of talent and agility to move swiftly and the challenge of innovation compounds. Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 17, 2017

Edwards Deming’s 14th point is: Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. You can also find quotes by Dr. Deming, such as: “As I use the term here, the job of a leader is to accomplish transformation of his organization.” Deming and discussed in this blog.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Deming to the Editor of Time Magazine 1981; Dear Sir, Your article about Japan in TIME for 30 March 1981 is excellent, but the paragraph concerning my work is ridiculous and can do a lot of harm to American industry at the very time when they need guidance. Dr. Deming did not just give a lecture in 1950. Emphasis added). My Thoughts.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively. We can learn both from organizations intentionally applying Deming’s ideas and those that are not necessarily doing so.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. While “Standards are everything at Airbus: from cleaning up the table in the canteen after eating to operating a machine, they influence every part of the employees’ working day.” Yet, what can be said of the limits to standardization? per million opportunities.

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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.” As a result, organizations must devote considerable resources to teach these fundamentals. Parents were patrons. My wife was so impressed that no one spilled anything.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 3, 2016

Point 7 in Dr. Deming’s 14 obligations of management : Institute leadership (see point 12 and Chapter 8 in Out of the Crisis ). But Dr. Deming provided context. That system allows the organization to be successful by providing for the needs of the employees , delighting customers and meeting the needs of other stakeholders.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Simon Sinek refers to this as well when he describes his “golden circle” concept, telling us that working and leading from “why” (the reason an organization exists) is deeply rooted in our biology, as it connects deep within people’s brains – their limbic systems – the seat of basic human emotion. ” Want More? References.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 3, 2015

Steven, President of New York Label & Box Works , discusses their Deming journey over the decades. You need to provide education on how to think of the organization as a system and how to continually improve. New York Label & Box Works has been applying Deming’s ideas for 30 years. Give them the right materials.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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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 cautioned against clinging to examples , and for good reason. But many people like to learn about how others have applied Deming’s ideas.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” To improve your practices you can see what works for others and then abstract the principles for that success and then determine how to adopt those principles to your situation. See a longer quote with more context.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Using data to understand the system and validate our theories and successful improvements is an important part managing well. There must be an understanding of the organization as a system. Edwards Deming will appreciate is the challenge of collecting accurate data based on the same operational definition.

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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. But you need to define the basics right: be organized, collect the right information on time, and improve your product and services in a lean way. 14 Deming principles. How to apply the model.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Many years after the curtain came down on my Camelot project, I was asked to lead the process / organization side of a large technology project. The project had been operational for a few months when I joined so the foundation had already been poured. EDWARDS DEMING’S SCORE FOR LEADING, PERFORMING, AND LIVING IN CONCERT.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success. Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. ….

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What matters is enforcing discipline to assure that the procedures deemed critical to success are followed. That is true even when that change to how things are done has documented evidence of success (it is usually easy to find excuses why that evidence doesn’t apply if you don’t want to change).

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. If top managers within the organization are not authentically practicing Quality Leadership neither will anyone else. Make changes, if necessary, to make the organization more responsive to Quality Leadership.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

I think it helps provide Southwest focus in marketing and operations seeing how badly many of their competitors frustrate customers continually in very visible ways. A big factor in the success of providing solutions that delight customers. To delight customers determine what they desire based on a deep understanding of them.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 14, 2016

The ability to collect large amounts of data is increasing daily, and organizations are attempting to use analytics to transform this data into usable information to help them gain better knowledge about their products, services, and customers. Education is not unique.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 3, 2020

In it he writes that, “…our prosocial disposition and our noblest altruistic tendencies have deep roots in the physics of self-organization and are probably responsible for our species’ unparalleled success…” (p. Dr. Goldratt offers five focusing steps to mitigate constraints and facilitate ongoing improvement in organizations.

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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. At first that might sound like a successful statistic, but in truth it was abysmal.

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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.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950. To Pipp’s amazement, one car purchased was 100% snap fit. The discovery was not lost on Pipp.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Yet most reports, such as John Kotter's classic Harvard Business Review article " Leading Change: Why Transformation Effort Fail ," show that few attempts at fundamental change are very successful, a few are utter failures, and most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt to failure. Because they are successful. As Zeus Inc.'s

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. They convey to workers what’s really important, and they create ample context for inadequate safety focus lower down the organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Organizations are overrun with improvement initiatives, from infrastructure overhauls to sales programs. So how can your organization avoid the process improvement hype cycle? Reflect on why initiatives have and have not worked in your organization. Customize an improvement approach for your organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Edwards Deming , the guru of total quality management, called this "driving out fear.". Employees know whether the organization really cares about them and values them. They know it by the organization's actions rather than its words. This subliminally drives the idea that change is positive and leads to personal success.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. From sales of iPhones to iPads to computers, Apple executives offered explanations for these results and predictions for the future. The value of profits as an ingredient for organizations to sustain and develop their operations is undeniable. Post by Bill Bellows. billion and a quarterly net profit of $7.7

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Edwards Deming , the guru of total quality management, called this "driving out fear.". Employees know whether the organization really cares about them and values them. They know it by the organization's actions rather than its words. This subliminally drives the idea that change is positive and leads to personal success.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends report shows how far many organizations still have to go.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Research finds that just 5 to 15 percent of innovations are successful at large companies. Most business leaders would have greater odds of success if they went to a Las Vegas casino and gambled their innovation investment on one big bet. What’s not understood is how to do it. It’s a system designed to enable innovation by everyone.

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Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Even today many organizations treat suppliers as adversaries to beat at the negotiating table. Dr. Deming explained that the organization was a system that included the suppliers and customers. What matters is how you operate. Point 4 in W.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

It is important for the person(s) responsible for the organization to honestly and accurately assess their state of managerial needs. Fundamentals of managing an organization : (Forecast & Plan) – Examining the future and drawing up a plan of action. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0].

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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. Edward Deming , the father of quality movement in the 1950s, believed that what can’t be measured doesn’t get managed.

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