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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice. 2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. Stuart Hunter (Princeton University), New Challenges for Statisticians. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor? 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. 2015, William Meeker: Reliability – Another Dimension of Quality.

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

Deming Institute

Speaking of continuous improvement, my GM plant also had a very traditional “suggestion system,” not a Kaizen-style approach to improvement. The Livonia Philosophy (as written, not practiced) also sounds like Lean in the goal of utilizing of all people’s skill and creativity, as we practice in the Kaizen model.

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Reliability: Another Dimension of Quality

Deming Institute

2013, Vijay Nair: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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

Deming Institute

Lean organizations engage every employee, regardless of the letters after their names, in improvement through Plan Do Study Adjust cycles and a Kaizen improvement process. These organizations help form teams with a better understanding of their work and system, instead of a department just being a collection of individuals. Many hands go up.

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

Deming Institute

Mark also co-authored Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements , which was released in June 2012 and also a Shingo Research Award recipient in 2013. He is the founder and lead blogger and podcaster at LeanBlog.org , started in January 2005.

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Every Fast-Growing Company Has to Combat Overload

Harvard Business Review

The leadership team at Norwegian put in place a kaizen (continuous improvement) system to gather ideas from the front line on how to improve and streamline operations and processes everywhere in the organization, and created extensive discussion forums and recognition for the best ideas. Make constant improvement a focus.

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