Deming Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2015

One company was awarded the Deming Grand Prize this year: National Engineering Industries Limited (India). GS Yuasa Corporation, Industrial Battery Production Division, Industrial Batteries and Power Sources Business Unit (Japan). Tadaaki Jagawa, Advisor, Toyota; Executive Adviser to the Board, Hino Motors (Japan).

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Deming TQM Committee Engineering 28

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Total Quality Management in Logistics: a case study from the trucking industry by Harry Lehman, Jr. (a This document explores implementing these ideas in the service industry. The case study details problems encountered by the company and those are very common: resistance to change (by everyone including executives) etc.

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Case Study Deming System Company 28

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Thinking that quality needs apply to some other department, company or industry, not your own. At the start of the decade, many executives viewed the quality process with indifference or fear. TQM has increased profitability in some corporations up to six times.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I don’t remember getting too many details from my dad about the class, other than Dr. Deming chastising some executives who showed up during the last hour of the last day. Edwards Deming.

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Deming TQM Kaizen Crisis 46

Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 22, 2012

Don't wait for headhunters to call - if you're a senior executive looking for a job and they haven't already then it is too late. You need to drive the process - with the right approach and the right effort almost anyone (though I am personally concerned with senior executives) can land a role and do so quickly.

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Open-book Execution Content Process 65

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Time at Work How your values drive your success Candidates are lying throughout recruitment Government launches new strategy for industry. Related Content: Calling a halt to mindless change - 13 years on, have we learnt the lesson yet? You are not watching this post, click to start watching.

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Entrepreneur Uncertainty Books Morale 65

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2014

It makes Dorsey’s summation of his story a non sequitur: “A once-thriving American business loses share to the Pacific Rim, gets scared, adopts TQM practices, raises productivity, and begins to win back business. In academia, there is remarkably little written about how to link strategy with the nitty-gritty of field execution.

Strategy 12

Strategy P&L TQM Strategic Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

An executive decides on a different and better way to do things, and prepares a sales pitch that goes something like this: First: "We need to change. Many executives have never recognized this pattern of serial adoption of different approaches to what is essentially the same topic. Here's this new approach.

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Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Then we got talking about the odometer on my Nissan Pathfinder: Is a car that can go 300,000 miles a case of over-engineering or TQM excellence? Would the "Everything is a case study" view of the world have helped Eastman Kodak executives think through digital technologies earlier? It was a debate worth at least 40 miles.

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Case Study TQM Supply Chain Brand 8

Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 24, 2012

Most of us have fallen into our career. While the proportion of vocational to non- vocational degrees fluctuates, most people still end up in a career that just happened.

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Career Content Course Books 73

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 15, 2012

In his address to Stanford Graduates in 2005, Steve Jobs said; "And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition". When we have an intuitive response to something it is often our personal values that are being touched upon.

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Content Books Positioning TQM 66

Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 11, 2012

What are the fantasies and fears, projections, and stereotypes that influence our behaviour in situations like this? Which ones help us survive today and which are legacies from our cave-man ancestors? When does our sense of outrage provoke us to act? When does our sense of decorum prevent us?

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Influence Content Project Books 67

Chartered Management Institute

JUNE 5, 2012

There's one simple thing, that most senior executives (most people generally) don't do when they are looking for a job. They don't do it out of fear - and that fear is misguided - or, I suppose, out of shame. In today's job hunt we depend on our informal network of personal ambassadors to help unearth possibilities.

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