Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Among other things, this presentation is a good option for those seeking an example that provides historical business results of an organization practicing Deming management methods.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 17, 2017

As noted in my June 26 th post, “It Depends…” , when asked in February 1990 about the trend towards reducing the number of levels of management in organizations, Dr. Deming answered, in his usual Socratic fashion: “Why have more levels than you need?”.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2016

At the core the Checklist Manifesto is about determining the critical process conditions and creating a system to assure that the those process items are properly handled. So we (those familiar with Deming principles) know what to do. The book also discusses the difficulty of successfully changing behavior.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. They used Deming’s ideas to turn around a company being crushed in the marketplace to one delighting their customers. Jet-Hot integrates Deming’s system view with their own management or operating system.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 14, 2020

Edwards Deming said that “Quality is determined by the top management. Again, Mike asked where he could help, and they related that the lack of operable wheelchairs was the issue. Guest post by Dennis Sergent, President, Sergent Results Group. It cannot be delegated.” How could he disagree?

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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.” It is a dynamic, interconnected process.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

From Dr. Deming’s last interview ; published in Industry Week magazine. This is true when looking at the people as Dr. Deming mentions. It is also true when optimizing say one department or one process. It is also true when optimizing say one department or one process.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2014

Most employees consciously or unconsciously operate on the following assumption: “tell me how you''ll measure me, and I''ll tell you how I''ll behave.”. Edwards Deming thought that systematic process measurement led to the “profound knowledge” that was essential to top quality outcomes. Measurement directs behavior.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. To that end, Dr. Deming might well ask, “By what method” can we determine the “right” things to do? Mark Lane, 2019).

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Who is immune to the fear of not doing their “part” of the process right? Edwards Deming said “Quality is made in the boardroom,” and his lifetime of teachings about the practice of learning and improvement with knowledge provide us with examples of his approach to ethics and quality.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 10, 2017

Imagine the unintended consequences of operation “haste makes waste:” trashed restrooms and unwashed hands. Edwards Deming and his System of Profound Knowledge, they would know it’s they , not their workers, who are responsible for improving productivity. Sticking a pin in confirmation bias for now. Company W did that too….

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

In contrast to the classic management style of Management by Results or MBR , Johnson proposes a process-driven strategy, which draws heavily upon the insights he gained from Dr. Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge, coupled with frequent visits to Toyota’s operations, often in Georgetown, Kentucky.

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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.” Deming is the core of our management.” . per million opportunities.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 8, 2011

Most employees consciously or unconsciously operate on the following assumption: “tell me how you'll measure me, and I'll tell you how I'll behave.” Edwards Deming thought that systematic process measurement led to the “profound knowledge” that was essential to top quality outcomes. Quality guru W.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Edwards Deming. Dr. Deming emphasized the importance of understanding what the data actually meant (and how easily we can be mislead when looking at data). Without understanding the operational definition for the data you take a great risk that you make mistaken guesses about what the data means. Attributed to W.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

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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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A 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.”. ” Shocked by the results, he instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Phillip Crosby.

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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.” I have gone through the recruiting process with hundreds of college graduates and have been struck by the general lack of some key fundamentals that are necessary regardless of industry. References.

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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. See more of my thoughts related to that quote in our previous post: Dr. Deming on Leadership. Edwards Deming had a very specific meaning.

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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’s process management theory. Edwards Deming cautioned against clinging to examples , and for good reason.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 14, 2011

Most employees consciously or unconsciously operate on the following assumption: “tell me how you measure me, and I will tell you how I will behave.” Edwards Deming thought that systematic process measurement led to the “profound knowledge” that was essential to top quality outcomes. Quality guru W.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 8, 2011

Most employees consciously or unconsciously operate on the following assumption: “tell me how you'll measure me, and I'll tell you how I'll behave.” Edwards Deming thought that systematic process measurement led to the “profound knowledge” that was essential to top quality outcomes. Quality guru W.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. But when we try and copy practices, processes, techniques, etc. When it does work well it is usually a very simple process that has few interactions or dependencies with the containing system. Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?”

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Edwards Deming will appreciate is the challenge of collecting accurate data based on the same operational definition. In business, often data is collected without even having operational definitions (“An operational definition is a procedure agreed upon for translation of concept into measurement of some kind.”

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

In short, how does one get an organization to listen to what Deming had to say? ” This makes “selling” organizations on the idea of adopting the Deming management system more challenging. Edwards Deming said in The New Economics. But I do think it is a good explanation of the process.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 25, 2016

He starts the presentation with the Red Bead Game (see related posts on our blog: Lessons From the Red Bead Experiment with Dr. Deming , The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Edwards Deming ). What we want to do is improve the system to reduce the instance of poor results, not to inspect our unreliable process to remove bad results.

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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. You need to use reliable processes for action and continually improve your processes based on studying your results. 14 Deming principles. Deming System of Profound knowledge. 20 SME Steps.

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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

MARCH 24, 2016

Edwards Deming Institute podcast, Dr. Sophronia (Frony) Ward, Managing and Founding Partner of Pinnacle Partners , ( direct download ) discussess what you need to consider when looking at data from surveys. As many of the readers of this blog will know Dr. Deming did a great deal of work with the U.S Frony Ward. In this latest W.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The change is supported by subject matter expertise and an understanding of how change in one operation affects other independent processes in the system. The change – its good intentions, deeper knowledge and methods – is translated into a clear picture of the new standardized operational procedure.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Edwards Deming, The New Economics. They do not work together, as teammates, to create a third apple nor a third cup of water, nor operate in such a way that water would be lost (other than by evaporation) or part of an apple would be lost. Post by Bill Bellows. Their efforts are interdependent.”.

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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.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 31, 2017

Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders. Dr. Deming’s timeless teachings have been, and will continue to be, a driving influence because we see his philosophies work. Processes are the means to achieve ends. We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

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. ” But here’s the problem for operations: Standardized processes that work are great.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

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.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Discussions about process improvement failures sprang up recently on two different LinkedIn groups I participate in, and most members cited a lack of leadership from the top as the primary reason. Edwards Deming (the father of the quality movement) famously said , "Drive out fear. Six Sigma or Lean) the right way. As Zeus Inc.'s

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