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2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl – Need Any Country be Poor?

Deming Institute

I’d like to focus on a few areas of Dr. Deming’s career that perhaps are under appreciated, not talked about as much as some other areas. Edwards Deming work should measure the success of what we are doing by the improvement in people’s lives. Related: A Historical Look at Deming’s Career: Lecture by J.

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Diet and Exercise Tips from Process Fitness Fanatics

Harvard Business Review

The stories of how they have kept their processes fit are less well known than those of famous process fitness fanatics such as Toyota, with its Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), and GE, with its Six Sigma program. DuPont started with Six Sigma's classic focus on reducing product defects.

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What Cincinnati Could Teach New York about Hurricane Readiness

Harvard Business Review

The keys to success: sustained executive leadership, including from the mayors themselves; specific, audacious goals; and data-informed decision making. Knowing the challenges they had in hiring a qualified workforce locally, P&G helped launch a broad effort to fix education, from cradle to career.