Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This webcast shows Tom Rudmik’s presentation, Thriving in the World of Massive Change, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. ” Like Joel Barker, Tom stresses the importance of making a significant effort to understand the innovation around us and plan for a future using the understanding of where we are heading.*.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

While numbers are important in planning, true strategic thinking is qualitative. Strategic thinking is NOT the same thing as strategic planning. In fact, many strategic plans have little strategic thinking behind them. In a similar fashion, many strategic plans fail within organizations due to lack of options thinking.

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Strategic Planning Content Covey Industry 131

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

I was happy to see John Hunter share the article on the Deming Institute blog last year , along with some context. The SHS journal article starts with a brief introduction, not in the original document, by Dr. Deming that summarizes the key points, all of which are still relevant today. The lesson learned? Many hands go up.

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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. How did I figure this out?

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Curious Cat

APRIL 28, 2015

I took this photo after presenting a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Boston (at the Boston Fine Arts Museum – see more photos ). I have already gone on longer than I planned so I don’t want to keep going with the ways conferences could be better designed for the modern age. They told you this plan on the first day.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Fundamentals of managing an organization : (Forecast & Plan) – Examining the future and drawing up a plan of action. They develop action plans. Business planning (analysis, forecasting, budgeting…). As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. The elements of strategy.).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. The Information Age was exploding.

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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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