Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Guest post by David Kachoui (previously published in Quality Progress, August 2014): Director of Business Development at Natech Plastics. Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, defined quality as “pride in workmanship.” Deming, The New Economics, see reference 2, p. Parents were patrons. References.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan—but they don’t know what to copy! Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble. They look at examples and without theory they learn nothing.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. The SME deck is to be developed in two months, with weekly two hours meetings, on-line or face to face depending on the location of my clients. 14 Deming principles. Deming System of Profound knowledge.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

As I wrote about in my first post , my first job out of college was at the GM Livonia Engine Plant, outside of Detroit. 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. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net. But, it really mattered to me.

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

I grew up surrounded by those seeking to improve management (Bill Hunter, George Box, Brian Joiner, Peter Scholtes…). As I moved into high school Dad was doing much more direct management consulting (it was also a combination of statistics, engineering and management but the emphasis shifted over time) based on Deming’s ideas.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

While most strategy development efforts focus on content – or what one thinks, strategic thinking is driven by how one thinks – ie., ability to see the interrelationships between elements … such as, how decisions made in engineering impact other functions). the thinking behind the thinking. We call this metacognition.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Edwards Deming. As a Corporate Strategist TM , Hank speaks and advises companies about growth strategies, visioning, planning, executive-leadership development, futurism and the Big Picture issues which profoundly affect the business climate. He is a mentor to senior management. Hank has presented Think Tanks for five U.S.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. For more than 10 years now I have been helping people to develop their own Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME). I applied for the Deming grant to learn more about him and be able to implement his teachings more accurately.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Turn-and-burn, yank-and-bank; show me how to start the engine and get out of my way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Agile has indisputably transformed software development, and many experts believe it is now poised to expand far beyond IT. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. They keep customers happier.

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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.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Yet now, with Innovation Engineering – a data-driven, reliable system for creating fresh ideas and successfully turning them into reality – companies can transform innovation from a random act to a reliable science. Innovation Engineering methods and tools are designed to engage both left and right brain thinkers.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

But there are four rules which can help managers of all walks of an organization instill the principle in their day-to-day work, in order to make self-cannibalization successful in the long run. Instead of merely digitizing magazine content, managers built a number of web-based platforms.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2015

John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement suggests the late W. Edwards Deming, engineer and management consultant. “He clearly articulated the importance of building a management system that was effective and continually improving. .” – Albert Einstein. – Follow John.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 10, 2019

Deming took this one step further by postulating that every system must have an aim. Many systems evolve without their “designers” consciously thinking about an aim, but you can often reverse-engineer the aim of a system by studying its makeup and the outcomes it’s producing. Complex systems are fractal in nature.

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