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2019 ASA Deming Lecture, Walking with Giants: A Research Odyssey

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Nicholas Fisher, University of Sydney, gave the 2019 ASA Deming Lecture – Walking with Giants: A Research Odyssey. In the presentation Nicholas shared his experience at a 4 day Deming seminar in Australia in 1991. Nicholas learned from Bill Conway, CEO of Nashua Corporation (and someone Deming quoted and worked with).

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Why Deming / Why Now

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Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Previously published by Quality Digest. Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing the number of levels of management?” Before presenting Dr. Deming’s answer, consider the options. Why Deming / Why Now – Thinking About Systems.

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Why Deming / Why Now / Working to transform “our” system

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Edwards Deming was the NBC Special (termed a “Whitepaper”), “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” His questions within resonated with me immediately, as I was a new supervisor for Bell Telephone. The early emphasis on productivity in the program was a familiar theme at my work and the telecommunications business. Why Deming?

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Leading The Transformation Process

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Leading The Transformation Process, Barbara Lawton’s presentation at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference: Aim of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Barbara’s words (building on Deming’s quote “ provide jobs and more jobs “). Edwards Deming.

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EBM: Deming & Quality

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W Edwards Deming was an American statistician, considered the father of the modern quality movement. In 1982, Edwards Deming published “ Out of the Crisis ” identifying 14 points for management which if applied would enable Japanese manufacturing efficiencies to be realized. Assert that processes make mistakes not people.

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The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World

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Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. But they are packed with content and if you are serious about applying Deming’s ideas they are incredibly powerful resources.

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Improving the Management System with an Understanding of Deming

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In his presentation at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar Joseph Schneider discusses his efforts to apply Deming’s ideas within Siemens. This is useful as this is true for nearly every (every one that I know of) attempt to apply Deming’s ideas on management.

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