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The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2015 Fall Conference, Sep 18-20

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Edwards Deming Institute’s conference will be held in September. and Board of Directors, Capital Quality & Innovation. Edwards Deming Institute®. Andrea Gabor speaking at the 2014 Deming Institute conference. This year The W. The theme of the conference is Next Generation Leadership: Disruptive by Design.

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Eliminating Sales Commissions at Air Force One

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Air Force One , CEO Greg Guy attended the 2013 Deming Institute Annual conference and was able to begin to learn how to put into action a management system to address the problems created by a commision based culture. The new system started in the fall of 2013. – Incentivizing Behavior Doesn’t Improve Results.

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14th Annual In2:InThinking Network Forum June 10-14 in Los Angeles

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Topics and speakers at the conference include: Kevin Murphy – Application and Lessons of Deming’s Perspective on Leadership. A sampling of the pre-conference sessions: Solving the Mystery of the Soggy Pizza Case Study – Entrepreneurship Innovation Value Stream (EIVS) Workshop with Dale Deardorff. By What Method?

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Why Dr. Deming’s Work is So Important to Me

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Edwards Deming. I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away. Why had I heard of Dr. Deming?

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Reflections on Dr. Deming’s Hospital Notes – What Has Changed Since 1990?

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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. The lesson learned? Many hands go up.

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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

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General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises

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SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles.

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