Deming Institute

AUGUST 10, 2017

“The company’s human resources department described “excessive use of the bathroom as…60 minutes or more over the last 10 working days…do the math and it works out to 6 minutes a day,” the article stated. I suspect this stroke of timesaving brilliance was born out of a not-so-unusual concern about productivity or output. I get that.

Deming 48

Deming Bottom-up System Reference 48

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Janna Rust presents Procrastination and Productivity posted at Purposeful Leadership , saying, "What are you procrastinating with right now? Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.". Submit your blog article to the next edition of Leadership Development Carnival. There is no do, only be.

Leadership Development 248

Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2017

In 2016, I had read an excellent article by Greg Satell that outlined “ The 9 Rules of Innovation ”. Great innovation almost never occurs within one field of expertise, but is almost invariably the product of synthesis across domains. Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership.

Innovation 97

Innovation Deming Agility Resistance 97

Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.” ” Adi Gaskell presents Keeping in touch with ex companies posted at Adi Gaskell says… , saying, “An article on the importance for both ex-employees and their previous employer of keeping in touch through corporate alumni networks.”

Blog 218

Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Deming Institute

APRIL 24, 2017

There are many reasons I support and wish to see the wider adoption of Deming’s ideas. My life would be better if I could replace companies that force me to put up with the results of their poor management system with companies practicing Deming’s ideas. Deming available online and in other ways.

Commitment 37

Commitment Deming Long-term Short-term 37

Deming Institute

MAY 9, 2016

Here is a long document looking at Deming’s ideas, written by Raphael Vitalo – Deming Revisited: The Real Quality Model for Commerce. The document explores Dr. Deming’s ideas in depth and provides the authors viewpoint. Deming’s definition of leadership—i.e., In my opinion, it is an interesting read.

Deming 28

Deming Document System Quality 28

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Edwards Deming said “Quality is made in the boardroom,” and his lifetime of teachings about the practice of learning and improvement with knowledge provide us with examples of his approach to ethics and quality.

Ethics 56

Ethics Quality Deming Efficiency 56

Deming Institute

JULY 20, 2015

Joe Sensennbrer quoting Dr. Deming in his article, Quality Comes to City Hall. This wonderful quote highlights Dr. Deming’s ability to use humor and create a simple visual to drive home a point. our system of make-and-inspect, which if applied to making toast would be expressed: “You burn, I’ll scrape.”.

Deming 28

Deming System Process Quality 28

Deming Institute

MAY 5, 2016

In this post I discuss another wonderful paper by Dr. Deming. Edwards Deming Institute makes this paper, and many more, available on our website. As you would expect from a non-profit focused on promoting the application of his ideas these articles are freely available with no barriers to downloading them.

Deming 28

Deming Management Quality System 28

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

I felt like somebody had shared a bootleg tape of my favorite band, as I wasn’t sure the article had ever been formally published anywhere. Since I wasn’t sure if it was a public article, I didn’t share it widely and didn’t blog about it. When I teach at health systems, I always ask who has heard of Dr. Deming.

Deming 28

Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Edwards Deming once wrote that a system needed to be managed, for without management the “parts” tend to act in their own interests and “sub-optimize” the system. This article was previously published in the ACSD Iowa newsletter. Is “tunefulness” the optimal state for a system to best achieve its desired results? Contact Us today.

System 66

System Senge Management Deming 66

Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused. This article, by the authors of the book, provides a good introduction to the topic: Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done”. We all have many jobs to be done in our lives.

Deming 28

Deming Christensen System Innovation 28

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

The French Deming Association has a mission to implement the management theory designed by Deming. Their web site also offers several interesting papers including: Before Deming’s 14 Points for Management by Jean-Marie Gogue, The French Deming Association. Edwards Deming greeting workers at Ricoh in Japan in the 1970s.

Deming 28

Deming Management Library System 28

QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), Your reference to gaps in the lateral movement of work reminded be of Frank Voehl’s post on the Deming Learning Network - “Managing the White Space&#.

Process 130

Process Deming Restructuring Efficiency 130

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. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950. Figure 1 – Production Viewed as a System.

System 74

System Productivity Products Deming 74

The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Although there are many books about strategic thinking, my focus for this article is on the structure of strategic thinking … the Core 6 characteristics. Edwards Deming, management expert, the “principle of anticipation and innovation — driven by the producer, not the customer — is the ultimate competitive advantage.”.

Strategic Planning 131

Strategic Planning Content Covey Industry 131

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

He is a Futurist and Corporate Strategist TM , with four trademarked concepts of business… heralded widely for ways to remediate corporate damage, enhance productivity and facilitate better business. Edwards Deming. Hank has presented Think Tanks for five U.S. Presidents. He has spoken at five Economic Summits.

Drucker 62

Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

The Practical Leader

JULY 20, 2011

To win today, you have to delight and astound your customers — with products and services that far exceed their expectations.&# The first two rings (my last two blog posts) deal with things — technology, products, services, systems, processes, structures, and so on. Customer Service articles/book excerpts.

Sharpe 53

Sharpe Deming Hotels Quality 53

Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Back in 1968, he wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review titled “One More Time, How Do You Motivate Employees?” Last time I checked, it was the single most requested article in the history of Harvard Business Review. Edwards Deming. Herzberg identified two factors that determine how satisfied we are with work.

Herzberg 209

Herzberg Ryan Motivation Deming 209

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

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

In the paper, David Deming, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, explains that since the ‘80s, job and wage growth has been strongest in occupations requiring both high cognitive and high social skills. One reason, Deming explains, is because computers are still bad at simulating social interaction.

Technology 8

Technology Skills Deming Osborne 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

QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”. Deming opined that everything that is critical for business performance may not be measurable. Well said, Tanmay!

Deming 158

Deming Quality Blog Directory 158

Deming Institute

AUGUST 20, 2015

The linked to article that aims to provides an overview of the essence of Deming’s approach to management and its continuing relevance to managers: The Model of Sustainable Organisation by Alan Clark. A manager, said Deming, is primarily a manager of People.

Ouchi 28

Ouchi Herzberg Deming McGregor 28

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

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I hear a lot of talk about companies wanting to hire the best and the brightest (I’m going to abbreviate this as BaB for this article). In 2004, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled, The Risky Business of Hiring Rock Stars. Follow this link to listen to our first podcast with Keith. Is there something better?

Short-term 57

Short-term Long-term Wiseman System 57

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

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 17

Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 17

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Edwards Deming Institute Blog , serves up Appreciation for a System in the Deming Context. " It’s been the most popular article on our site for the past week.". Here's Don’t Make it about you: " Tips on how to better tailor your professional communication to get the outcome you are hoping.". John Hunter , from The W.

Leadership Development 271

Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 271