Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, defined quality as “pride in workmanship.” We must move beyond quality in the product, the individual and the organization, and toward a broader cultural movement as a society, and that starts with our children. They were continually improving as a team. References.

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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. So much for his pride and joy in work.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), Between teams. Between members of the teams. Work flows from one team member to the other. Because, work flows horizontally.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused. When we buy a product, we essentially “hire” it to help us do a job. If it does the job well, the next time we’re confronted with the same job, we tend to hire that product again.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work. He builds largely upon the work of MIT economist David Autor, who’s studied the effects of technological change on the U.S.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

seeing cause and effect patterns within your environment, peoples’ behaviors and even within yourself … such as “when I take 5 minutes to plan daily, I have a more productive, focused day.”). The personal computer revolution was started by putting together existing technologies in a way never done before. Patterns recognition (ie.,

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The Practical Leader

JULY 20, 2011

To win today, you have to delight and astound your customers — with products and services that far exceed their expectations.&# The first two rings (my last two blog posts) deal with things — technology, products, services, systems, processes, structures, and so on. That’s even truer today. The quality guru, W.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. Beginning with early accounts of the prowess of the legendary Toyota Production System (TPS), this article offers personal reflections on the fabric of TPS and present day explanations of Lean. The discovery was not lost on Pipp.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Teams using agile methods get things done faster than teams using traditional processes. 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. They keep customers happier.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. But, do organizations solely exist to earn profits or meet financial goals, or, are their profits the result of how well they invest their resources, from innovation to revenue and equipment, and then deliver new and improved products or services? Post by Bill Bellows. billion and a quarterly net profit of $7.7

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

” Mostly looking at individual workers, he figured out that standardization and optimization of work processes could lead to astonishing improvement in productivity. In the face of the resulting massive improvements in productivity and service, dissenters who pointed out high profile failures and dysfunctional systems had little impact.

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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.” Patent filings in the U.S.

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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

They ran productive meetings. The benefit of this is: costs decrease because of less rework, fewer mistakes, fewer delays, and better use of time and materials; productivity improves; market share increases with better quality and prices. Processes, products, and services should be improved constantly; reducing waste.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users.

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