Deming Institute

MARCH 4, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Edwards Deming Institute® and W. Edwards Deming’s grandson). This new 3rd Edition (published 25 years after the 1st edition) also includes a new chapter by Kelly Allan : “Why Deming? … Why Now More than Ever?”

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Software code review is the practice of reviewing the software code written by colleagues on your software development team. Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Do we need to update a software development checklist?

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Art Petty

AUGUST 23, 2021

If you are a manager responsible for promoting and developing a new manager, the hard work begins during selection and continues long after in the form of observing, teaching, and coaching. There are no shortcuts to building the next generation of effective managers.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Edwards Deming by Bill Scherkenbach (recording in February 1984, during this time Bill Scherkenbach worked at Ford and Deming was consulting with Ford). In this post I continue to explore this powerful video; it is part two of: Bill Scherkenbach’s Interview with Dr. Deming. This is a very interesting interview with W.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Edwards Deming had a large and varied collection of influences. The ideas Dr. Deming drew from the work of C.I. Lewis provide one of the ways his ideas on management are different from others. Lewis on Shewhart and Deming by G. But Dr. Deming found the ideas useful. Lewis: Influence of C.I.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). Both were excellent employees during that time.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

In 2014 I presented a paper at the 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar on the topic of “ Understanding and Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare.” that is taking on the transformation of healthcare management. My goal was to find out why this body of knowledge seemed to be absent.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Here’s why and how.” ” Gwyn Teatro presents How to Make Performance Appraisals Unnecessary posted at You’re Not the Boss of Me. Michael Lee Stallard presents Develop the Heart of a Champion posted at Michael Lee Stallard. William Matthies presents Instead, How About. I think so.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 3, 2017

These posts were the most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog in 2016 (as measured by page views, as recorded by my analytics application). How to Manage What You Can’t Measure (2010) *. Managers Are Not Non-Leaders: Managers Need to Practice Things We Classify as Leadership Traits (2013) *.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 17, 2017

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2016 (based on page views). The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people?” Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 26, 2017

Far too often companies promote employees into management positions and expect them to fulfill the obligations of their new position without helping prepare them to meet their new responsibilities. Managing a software development team is a completely different job from being a great software developer.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. They used Deming’s ideas to turn around a company being crushed in the marketplace to one delighting their customers. Jet-Hot integrates Deming’s system view with their own management or operating system.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 5, 2016

This is a list of the 20 most popular posts on the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog last year (as measured by page views, as recorded by my analytics application). How to Get a New Management Strategy, Tool or Concept Adopted (2010). No True Lean Thinking or Agile Software Development (2010). Peter Scholtes (2009).

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Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The Key to Building a Vibrant Organization and a Success Driven Team An owner of a small to midsize company, an executive within a large corporation, or a middle manager directing people to get the work done, all want the same thing: people consistently delivering high levels of performance and cooperating with each other to achieve team objectives.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Joshua Macht wrote an article for the Harvard Business Review (published in June) : The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten. In that article he explores the importance of Dr. Deming’s ideas today. The glue that seems to hold Deming’s framework together is the trust between manager and worker.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 30, 2020

Rather than seizing this as an opportunity to develop a new theory on which I might improve student engagement and learning, I focused not on what was on the minds of my students but on improving my pedagogy; reinforcing, perhaps, how to continue to do the wrong things – things that had no relevance for my students – better.

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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.” Parents were patrons. Students ran operations. Motivation and age integration. References.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This webcast shows Brian Hwarng ’s presentation, The Funnel Experiment, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. This insight is critical to understanding Deming’s ideas and applying them. Dr. Deming knew this and made appreciation for a system an integral part of his management system. Guest post by John Hunter.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education. Improve supervision.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 12, 2018

The video shows the presentation by Christine Simpson and Sarah Ambrus at the 2015 Deming research seminar: Empowering Students to Lead Change. They gave a similar, and a bit longer, presentation at the 2015 Deming in Education conference on Student Led Change. – Using Deming’s Ideas When Your Organization Doesn’t (Yet).

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Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

In this presentation Dan Jones discusses what we (with an understanding of Deming’s ideas) can see as an aspect of the Deming chain reaction : Focusing on quality and then time the consequence is that we lower costs. That is the wrong sequence, the right sequence is quality and then time and then cost and then new products.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 10, 2015

Jim Benson, founding partner of the Modus Cooperendi and co-author of Personal Kanban is the guest on this Deming Podcast. In the podcast Jim discusses how to apply Deming ideas to knowledge work. Jim helps people take those principles and help people visualize their knowledge work (software development etc.)

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Deming Institute

JUNE 19, 2017

Jim Benson’s presentation at our 2015 International Deming Research Seminar explored how to manage the workload better to improve results. Companies that understand this important idea have a big advantage over those that retain a theory x management system that they believe is needed to control people.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2016

If people asked Dr. Deming what they should do if they tried to get their company to adopt Deming’s ideas on management and the company wouldn’t he often suggested working on their resume and applying to other companies. In practice this is very similar to my advice on how to help transform your company.

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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?” So perhaps you see how quickly a company is able to adapt the software they use to meet their needs.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

Appreciation for a system is one of the four components of Deming’s management system. In this context the most common item to think of is Deming’s diagram of an organization as a system. Going into this area was much more common in the Deming community decades ago (when W. That is a powerful diagram.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This webcast shows Tom Rudmik’s presentation, Thriving in the World of Massive Change, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. The existing assembly-line approach to education exists because it’s the only way we knew how to manage large groups of students back in the early 1900s. Guest post by John Hunter.

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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. How to apply the model. 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.

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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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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

If you have no idea how to improve and what changes to the system would make it effective, if the entire system is destroyed. How can you expect to adjust the system for improvement right now, while you have the constraint of the system existing? And I thought how appropriate in developing solutions. mike Tuesday, 9th.

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 23, 2016

Kata is about creating a fast “muscle memory” of how to take action instantaneously in a situation without having to go through a slower logical procedure. Description from Workshop description “The Toyota Kata Experience” Kata means pattern, routine, habits or way of doing things.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Let’s look at how to turn those symptoms around. While most strategy development efforts focus on content – or what one thinks, strategic thinking is driven by how one thinks – ie., To develop this thinking muscle, leaders must address fundamental achievement-oriented questions, such as …. How will we measure success?

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 1, 2016

The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande is a wonderful book about how to create systems that work. In the book Atul Gawande paraphrases Daniel Boorman, veteran pilot who spent two decades developing checklists and flight deck controls for Boeing: Good checklists… are precise. Good checklists are, above all, practical.

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Curious Cat

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Many of the better management methods proposed by W. Edwards Deming address this issue. CEOs are given a false picture when they focus on results instead of the management system. In order to create the right culture requires a management system that is built to support the organization in growing into such a culture.

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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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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 organization really should focus on improving the management system so it isn’t such a barrier to improvement. So if your purpose is to improve management you need to address that.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The seminar was on using Deming’s ideas to improve education. I wasn’t in the education field, but I believe what I wrote about earlier: we don’t need to restrict our management learning to our industry. I haven’t managed to get the capacity matrix idea adopted in organizations I worked in.

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