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Applying a Model for Small Business Continual Improvement

Deming Institute

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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People Copy Examples and Wonder Why They Don’t Succeed

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” See a classic discussion with Dr. Ackoff and Dr. Deming on the futility of trying to put together best parts/processes without an appreciation for the system. People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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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Debriefing as Continuous Improvement

Strategy Driven

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. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete

Harvard Business Review

Edwards Deming , who introduced quality as a way of life for Japanese companies. Microsoft was probably one of the earliest to see the value of this way of competing when it developed its operating system to be compatible for just about any make of personal computer. “Quality is free” became a mantra.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business Review

We argue that, like previous revolutionary ideas, blockchain has the potential to help developing nations leapfrog more-developed economies. Edwards Deming). An added benefit is that mobile money services such as M-Pesa are more advanced and sophisticated than those found in many developed economies.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

They develop action plans. And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.).