Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Yet now, with Innovation Engineering – a data-driven, reliable system for creating fresh ideas and successfully turning them into reality – companies can transform innovation from a random act to a reliable science. Create systems that enable instead of control. It’s a system designed to enable innovation by everyone.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 58

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. Intermountain Healthcare is an integrated delivery system based in Utah and Idaho. Physicians led almost all of the changes themselves.

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Deming Health Care System Cost 28

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Much of my work focuses on involving people in activities and decisions about their work and how it will change as the technology they use changes. 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. And so, I relented. So, that’s what I did.

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Project Deming Root Cause Analysis RACI 28

Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Dr. Deming explained that the organization was a system that included the suppliers and customers. You need to manage and continually improve that entire system. What matters is how you operate. They entire system is seen as one and expected to stay as one.

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Long-term Deming Cooper System 28

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. The entire system works together to create results. When we try and copy from one system and place it into another it is very unlikely to work well. When it does work well it is usually a very simple process that has few interactions or dependencies with the containing system.

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Examples Deming Software System 28

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. Business planning (analysis, forecasting, budgeting…). Capital raising strategies. Risk assessment. Corporate Taxation.

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Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. The contrast was driven home by a full-blown reenactment of Deming’s famous red bead experiment.

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Deming Management Senge Taylorism 9

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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Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? Edwards Deming). How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

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Marketing Technology Banking Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Then came the new frontline: enterprise-wide computer systems. Over the last 25 years, organizations’ processes have become increasingly tied to complex IT systems that specify each step of a task. The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

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Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Also, to signal what TQM guru Deming called "constancy of purpose," choose a name that will always resonate, e.g., something tied to customers and service.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 13