Deming Institute

OCTOBER 31, 2016

One of the items Toyota highlights on their web site is winning the Deming Prize in 1965. Professor Deming and Toyota President Fukio Nakagawa at the Deming Prize award ceremony (1965). From the Toyota website: Receiving the Deming Application Prize strengthened Toyota Motor Co., Deming is the core of our management.

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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.”. His plan was to have the final assembly team disassemble these cars and learn first-hand how well they assembled. .”

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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.” Deming said that competition squeezes out intrinsic motivation while collaboration nurtures intrinsic motivation, curiosity and joy in learning. They were continually improving as a team.

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Art Petty

AUGUST 23, 2021

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

when the going got tough, why weren’t we looking more closely at the basics first – the foundations of team effectiveness ? I used to believe the secret sauce of strong project teams –and their effectiveness– was chemistry. The project had been operational for a few months when I joined so the foundation had already been poured.

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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. 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.

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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?” See a classic discussion with Dr. Ackoff and Dr. Deming on the futility of trying to put together best parts/processes without an appreciation for the system. Edwards Deming, The New Economics.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. This begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. An elected, rank-and-file police officer, is added to the chief’s management team. Discuss and ask employees; get feedback from them.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 3, 2020

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. What would cause the system to remain intact is for teams/companies to connect with one another and act as one decision-making unit. References. Buchanan, M.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 28, 2017

Edwards Deming used to probe senior executives, including “What business are you in, what business will you be in 5 years from now, 10 years from now?,” Unlike the technical questions we answered all summer long, our manager took the opportunity to challenge us with a down-to-earth business question. Instead of the queries W.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. His plan was to have the final assembly team disassemble these cars and learn firsthand how they were assembled. He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. One came from a Bell Labs article on the Borland Quattro Pro team , suggesting that short daily team meetings increased group productivity dramatically.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The concept of inclusion in business started when Quality gurus like Deming asked Americans to drop the ‘product-out’ mentality and instead practice a ‘customer-in’ mindset. Why could he not use the assembly line method used by the burger company to maximize the number of operations every surgeon performs?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Edwards Deming wrote: "A bad system will defeat a good person, every time." It is the minimum ratio of positive to negatives that has to exist for a team to flourish. On higher-performing teams (and marriages for that matter) the ratio jumps to 5:1. The experiment was stopped early. The lesson? But is the opposite true?

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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. Duke and James D. Murphy For the last 50 years, elite U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Her successor, Ed Breen, was quoted as saying , “as we confront a challenging environment, [Kullman] and the management team already have taken actions to accelerate cost reductions. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

The Future of Operations. ” But here’s the problem for operations: Standardized processes that work are great. But if the folks at the head office get it wrong, then operations around the world can be locked into systematic dysfunction. Both of these stories hold lessons for operations now and in the future.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Edwards Deming, The New Economics. Edwards Deming, Genichi Taguchi, and others, to 70 graduate students, all pursuing a masters degree in business administration. As to the tough act to follow, my mind raced to consider what videos I might have with me. The aim must include plans for the future.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

In 2009, Grainger's senior management team decided to reflect on their history with improvement initiatives before deploying a Lean-based continuous improvement system. 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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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. Scale and efficiency are mostly about competing by lowering costs.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. The value of profits as an ingredient for organizations to sustain and develop their operations is undeniable. In his 1993 book, The New Economics , he posed “Profits must exist, and industry must work as a team in which all participants, large and small, prosper.” Further , “The boundary of a system….may

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. This is likely to require decentralizing the structure of our organizations, with smaller teams given greater autonomy to act, experiment and learn.

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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. What matters is how you operate. If the other four had improved their relations by as much they collectively would have added $2 billion in 2014 operating profit, Henke said.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Left brainers are critical to accomplishing the engineering, finance, production and operational work that’s required to make meaningful change happen. Edwards Deming, a renowned systems specialist, observed: “Ninety-four percent of problems are caused by the system — 6 percent by the workers.”

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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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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. People should be encouraged to work together as a team. the company increases profitability and stays in business; and.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Top management swiftly established a new team in Guangdong, away from the Shenzhen headquarters, and tasked a small group of engineers to reimagine a different social media platform, giving them carte blanche to cannibalize the existing QQ product. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Edwards Deming , the father of quality, said "A bad process will beat a good person every time," and Fujio Cho , a former president of Toyota, famously said, "We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes, while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes."

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