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Learning to Discern – Quality & Quantity

Deming Institute

The basic problem anywhere is quality. What is quality? A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. Once again, quality is about use. Dr. Deming explained quality with an appreciation of variation and, ultimately, use. Post by Bill Bellows.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

Unfortunately contemporary management theory and practices have ill prepared us for our current reality. During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. In the business world, waste kills productivity and profitability.

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