Deming Institute

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I understand some of the ideas Dr. Deming expressed challenge people’s beliefs and are difficult to accept. One of the things I find annoying, in this way, is that reducing variation and using standardization is said to mean everyone has to be the same and creativity is stamped out. Edwards Deming, touring a plant in the 1950s.

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Creativity Deming Proposal System 28

Deming Institute

MAY 21, 2018

Beginning in 1951, the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded the Deming Prize to honor organizations, and later, individuals, for extraordinary accomplishments in quality management. Dr. Deming understood you didn’t use the same improvement thinking every time you wanted to improve.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Edwards Deming-based quality program within a particular trucking company, Mason Transporters. And such an aim is required for any Deming based effort. Total Quality Management in Logistics: a case study from the trucking industry by Harry Lehman, Jr. (a a thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School). The thesis aims to.

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Case Study Deming System Company 28

Deming Institute

MAY 7, 2018

This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Leaders must understand the system… if they go back to that flavor of the month they are going to struggle and they are definitely going to struggle with Deming or the lean concepts.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Deming to the Editor of Time Magazine 1981; Dear Sir, Your article about Japan in TIME for 30 March 1981 is excellent, but the paragraph concerning my work is ridiculous and can do a lot of harm to American industry at the very time when they need guidance. Dr. Deming did not just give a lecture in 1950. Emphasis added). My Thoughts.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Bob Lieberman presents The Can-Do Attitude posted at Cultivating Creativity – Developing Leaders for the Creative Economy. It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Linda Fisher Thornton presents Leaders & Social Media: 5 Reasons to Engage posted at Leading in Context LLC.

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Blog Leadership Deming Storytelling 218

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Bob Lieberman presents The Can-Do Attitude posted at Cultivating Creativity – Developing Leaders for the Creative Economy. It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. Linda Fisher Thornton presents Leaders & Social Media: 5 Reasons to Engage posted at Leading in Context LLC.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Deming 248

Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

To that end, Dr. Deming might well ask, “By what method” can we determine the “right” things to do? Values : Collaboration and community; curiosity and creativity; engagement and excellence; equity and well-being; integrity and humility; stewardship and sustainability. Let’s learn to do the “right things ‘righter’.” References.

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Covey Deming Six Sigma Efficiency 69

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Naturally these ideas resonate very well with Deming’s thoughts and therefore it is one of the books I, and many others interested in Deming’s ideas, took to heart when it was published. That quote from the book (page 7, 1st edition) should ring true to those familiar with Deming’s ideas.

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Chaos Theory Deming Leadership Open-book 28

Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. But Dr. Deming understood the damage targets cause. Edwards Deming, quotes in Profits Beyond Measure by H. Point 10 on W.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

Here is a good example of why: Managing Our Way to Economic Success, Two Untapped Resources: potential information and employee creativity. Peter was less focused than the statisticians (the other 3 and Deming were statisticians) on data, but they were all cut from the same cloth.

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Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Peer coaching can be cascaded down to gain greater commitment, creativity, and flexibility in the organization. J Edward Deming, the founder of the quality movement, in his 14 Point essay, emphatically encourages managers to “drive fear out of the organization”. People being coached must be safe to tell the truth.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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Kaizen Deming Lean Manufacturing Handbook 28

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Edwards Deming can avoid falling into these traps created by poor management practices. The best policy may be to avoid incentives altogether and focus instead on creating systems in which intrinsic motivation, cooperation, ethical behavior, trust, creativity, and joy in work can flourish. Those that learn from W.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Quote from this amazing video “A Theory of a System for Educators and Managers” where Deming and Ackoff discuss quality transformation by developing an understanding of the properties and powers of systems-oriented thinking…you can the read the original post from Curious Cat Management Improvement.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

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&#. I am so glad the ideas in my post resonated well with you. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Process Deming Restructuring Efficiency 130

QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. Recently, someone argued with me stating that just because they are into a creative field, they don’t need process. Everybody else, he said, must follow process.

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Process IPO Directory Creativity 84

Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

Edwards Deming discussed frequently and emphasized in his management system ). An article, by my father, also addresses this area very well, while explaining how to capture and improve using two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Leaders recognized that work should be creative, challenging and fun. Related: Quality Processes in Unexpected Places – Quality Improvement and Government: Ten Hard Lessons From the Madison Experience – The Public Sector and Deming – The System Will Produce What It’s Capable of Producing. Edwards Deming, Philip B.

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Rapid BI

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Creativity – the ability to express, not being “boxed-in” PDSA. Martin summarizes her research into employee engagement into 3 factors, what she calls the 3 C’s: Connection – to others. Control – having some say in what happens.

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Review Organization Books Case Study 46

Deming Institute

OCTOBER 30, 2017

That certainty (of course variation still has an impact even with standardization so “certainty” may be oversimplifying it a bit) then allows us to be creative and not have to redesign every single part of a system every time we wish to improve some part of that system. Dr. Deming’s quote does a good job of explaining this.

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System Creativity Deming Long-term 56

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 9, 2013

The systems guru Edward Deming once said that a leader’s job is to drive fear out of the organization so that employees will feel comfortable making decisions on their own. business communication culture Guest Posts leadership Recent Posts behaviour creativity decision-making fear performance power risks' Mike Rice had all the power.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

While many innovators hate the term, a devil's advocate plays a very healthy role in a creative process by presenting plausible, alternative (and often less positive) explanations of observed phenomena. Experienced board members often play this role for young start-ups. Embrace the discipline of testing.

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Innovation Ries Deming Entrepreneur 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 28, 2015

I took this photo after presenting a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Boston (at the Boston Fine Arts Museum – see more photos ). The benefits they bring are very hard to calculate. I can see why companies often are very tight with budgets for conferences. A stone sarcophagus from ancient Egypt.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The concept of inclusion in business started when Quality gurus like Deming asked Americans to drop the ‘product-out’ mentality and instead practice a ‘customer-in’ mindset. Every professional must include as many people and organizations in their decision making as possible. This means collaborating across cultures.

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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! Don’t Kill It!

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Deming Quality Blog Directory 158

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Edwards Deming , the guru of total quality management, called this "driving out fear.". By reducing survival concerns, Wiremold had freed people to think creatively. He felt this was necessary to encourage employees to identify all the changes the company needed, including those which might disrupt their jobs.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Every existing innovation program preaches the importance of embracing a childlike, creative spirit. This works for the 15 percent of the work population who have a right brain creative thinking style. But it doesn’t work for the 85 percent with a logical left-brain thinking style. That’s not the purpose of Innovation Engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

Edwards Deming , the guru of total quality management, called this "driving out fear.". By reducing survival concerns, Wiremold had freed people to think creatively. He felt this was necessary to encourage employees to identify all the changes the company needed, including those which might disrupt their jobs.

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 12

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. ” It’s tempting to package change as being a largely negative thing, the creative destruction threatening to destroy all that we hold dear.

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Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 51

QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2010

John Hunter is a passionate improvement expert who shares some profound lessons on management, leadership, lean and Deming. Ivana Sendecka is a remarkable individual who is working really hard shipping inspiration and making a difference. Her blog is an interesting collection of thoughtful questions, experiences and stories that inspire.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

One of the best summaries of Quality Management was written my Edward Deming: Create consistency of purpose toward the improvement of product and service, and communicate this goal to all employees. creativity. creative thinking. the company increases profitability and stays in business; and. the number of jobs increases.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Deming Seminar in Singapore- New Philosophy of Management By Tanmay , January 6, 2011 @ 1:56 pm @John - Thanks for extending the opportunity to participate in Annual Review of Management Improvement Blogs. John Hunter´s last blog. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

How do you enable people to take the initiative to make needed creative decisions in their work with the equally important discipline needed to follow standard procedures? The answer isn't obvious. Case in point: a few years ago over lunch in the Shell Oil cafeteria in London, a long time employee and I were comparing Shell and Exxon. "At

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