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The Failure of “The Livonia Philosophy” at my GM Plant

Deming Institute

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. But, I needed a job, so I cast a wide net. What had happened?

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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. Applying SMED, the theoretical sessions would act as the external activities that operators have to perform before a changeover, and actually implementing them in a running business would be the internal ones.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. Of course, Sutherland and Schwaber weren’t alone in their search for innovative methods. They keep customers happier. They enjoy their work more.

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The Professional: Seven New Rules

Strategy Driven

Each one must know how we may impact the environment and, more critically, how we may be able to help. #3. 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. We live in a complex world.

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful. .

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

Ask Atma

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. They are: productivity, innovation, stress management, health & wellness, team/group development, and. creativity.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Edwards Deming). Even better, blockchains can spur local high-tech innovation. The Dubai Blockchain Strategy (disclosure: Vinay is the designer) envisions moving all government documents — more than 100 million documents per year — onto a blockchain by 2020, creating a new platform for innovation and huge cost savings.