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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

Edwards Deming famously remarked that “in God we trust, but everyone else should bring data.” And certain production environments provide richer data due to the processes they use.”. Despite this huge outlay, research from Rotman highlights the profoundly mixed returns seen on that investment. Strong returns.

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Two Tweets & A Blog

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming. It also begs another question, “If the Japanese so easily understood what Deming was saying, why is it still so difficult for people in western societies to understand?”. In today’s world “Understanding Relationship’s” might be an easier way for us westerners to understand what Deming was trying to tell us.

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Reliability: Another Dimension of Quality

Deming Institute

2015 ASA Deming Lecture by William Meeker – Reliability: The Other Dimension of Quality: William Meeker begins the presentations discussing his experience with W. Edwards Deming in relation to a paper by Meeker and Gerald Hahn. Future environment conditions will be unknown. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician.

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Debriefing as Continuous Improvement

Strategy Driven

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Please consider the environment before and after printing this article.