Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation.

System 74

System Productivity Products Deming 74

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II.

Agility 8

Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job.

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Looking ahead, we will continue to drive productivity, and we plan to conduct a deep dive into the details of our cost structure and allocation of capital to ensure we deliver appropriate returns for shareholders.” Injuries and catastrophic events, in addition to being tragic, are evidence that production is not being managed correctly.

Operations 16

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 16

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

” Mostly looking at individual workers, he figured out that standardization and optimization of work processes could lead to astonishing improvement in productivity. In the face of the resulting massive improvements in productivity and service, dissenters who pointed out high profile failures and dysfunctional systems had little impact.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. The contrast was driven home by a full-blown reenactment of Deming’s famous red bead experiment.

Deming 11

Deming Management Senge Taylorism 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. Forward-looking incumbents recognize the need to cannibalize their own products, rather than leaving it to other startups, who are more than happy to take on the challenge.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8