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EBM: Deming & Quality

LDRLB

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. Deming’s 14 Points: Create constancy of purpose and continual improvement where long-term planning replaces short-term reaction.

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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

Six Disciplines

Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management. He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Non-meaningful slogans are counter-productive substitute for real management.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ). Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Townes, and Henry L.

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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

Six Disciplines

Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management. He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Non-meaningful slogans are counter-productive substitute for real management.

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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

Six Disciplines

Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management. He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Non-meaningful slogans are counter-productive substitute for real management.

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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Early in the twentieth century Henri Fayol identified the job of managers as to plan, organize, command, coordinate, and control. The capacity and willingness of managers to plan developed throughout the century. Management by Objectives (MBO) became the height of corporate fashion in the late 1950s.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag alone; instead, try a long-term relationship based on established loyalty and trust. Many management thinkers have built upon Deming’s philosophy, yet his core message seems lost to time. Build quality into a product throughout production.

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