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

Deming Institute

As those familiar with Deming’s ideas know, Dr. Deming added excessive health care costs to his 7 deadly diseases of Western management. 2015, William Meeker: Reliability – Another Dimension of Quality. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology.

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

The idea of testing opinions and beliefs is key to Deming’s management system (as it is to the scientific method). 2015, William Meeker: Reliability – Another Dimension of Quality. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician. In my experience people don’t spend nearly enough time thinking. 2017, Fritz Scheuren: W.

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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. Leadership and Management. 2015, November). Effectiveness/Efficiency Matrix. Subscribe to our mailing list today!

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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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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. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. And wages are stagnant.