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When Deming Goes to School

Deming Institute

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. The second source of power is knowledge. The third source of power is personality.

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Systemically Non-Systemic: COVID-19 through the Deming Lens

Deming Institute

That said, the spread of COVID-19 is a powerful example of Dr. Deming’s “Appreciation for a System,” one of the four components of his System of Profound Knowledge. Gladwell asks, “Do we all belong to separate worlds, operating simultaneously but autonomously…” or “…are we bound up together in a grand interlocking web?” (p.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

However, all kidding aside, there was a powerful lesson here to be learned; one that may have transformed me as a teacher… and I missed it. However, while it may be a fairly straight-forward task to teach a management or improvement process to someone, the real challenge may lie in first determining what is “right” to do in any given context.

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Institute Leadership

Deming Institute

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. He possesses knowledge, personality, and persuasive power (chapter 6 [Management of People]). He must convince and change enough people in power to make it happen.

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What Role Does/Should The Deming System of Profound Knowledge Play in the World of “Big Data”?

Deming Institute

Are operational definitions the same across different data sources? In Deming’s language, are we talking about an enumerative or analytic problem ? Will our results be used to describe the current situation or to attempt to understand the cause system in order to understand and/or change future output from the process?

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Don’t Set Process Without Input from Frontline Workers

Harvard Business Review

They are the process nerds. But the world’s best organizations are calling a truce: They are learning how to turn the potentially destructive power of process and procedure to everyone’s benefit. The Future of Operations. Those sticklers who find reasons why things can’t be done? Insight Center.

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Transforming a Management System – A Case Study From the Madison Wisconsin Police Department

Curious Cat

This step is an ongoing process—it is continuous improvement within the organization. You may ask what the role of Quality Leadership was in the transformational process? Field operations are decentralized into four areas of the city – central, south, east, north and west. Step 6: Make continual organizational improvements.