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

Deming Institute

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

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

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

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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 – A Kaizen Statistician. Guest post by John Hunter , who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

Learning to do things “right” is important and all sorts of training exist for doing so, including Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Plan-Do-Study-Act, Statistical Process Control, and ISO certifications to name just a few. 2015, November). Note particularly the significant and profound difference between quadrants three and four. Richardson, W.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

In the decade between 2005 and 2015, labor productivity in the US as measured by GDP per labor hour was less than 1% for 7 of the 10 years, according to the OECD. Companies that follow the Toyota Production System use Kaizen events to improve productivity on the manufacturing line. And wages are stagnant.