Deming Institute

MARCH 21, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Nicholas Fisher, University of Sydney, gave the 2019 ASA Deming Lecture – Walking with Giants: A Research Odyssey. In the presentation Nicholas shared his experience at a 4 day Deming seminar in Australia in 1991.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos by Donald Wheeler is an excellent book on, not surprisingly, the topic of understanding variation. I enjoy working with data and seeking to understand what I can learn from the data. LEARN MORE.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 1, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Edwards Deming Institute offers events for those interested in applying Deming’s management ideas in their organizations. Leading with a Systems View: Deming Management Method for Owners and Executives.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The video shows the presentation at our 2012 annual conference by David Langford – When Deming Goes to School, Learning Takes a Front Seat. Dr. Deming said your sources of power come from primarily 3 sources.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 13, 2017

He returns to the Deming Institute podcast again ( download ) and he shares his approach for using innovation or leadership to improve management practices. Doug talks about command and control management being too slow for businesses given the competitive markets today. Edwards Deming Institute ). Running experiments.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 20, 2014

Do you know how to implement it well within your company?A Read more… Author information Bill Fox Bill Fox is a plane-flying project management and performance improvement consultant. Edwards Deming' Are you familiar with the PDSA (Plan-Do-Study-Act) cycle? Leadership Coaching Leadership Development improvement PDSA W.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The Deming Dimension by Henry Neave provides good historical background and then a well presented explanation of Deming’s ideas on management. It is one of the best books to read to learn about Deming’s ideas. This can be done, but only by transformation of the style of management now practised.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 1, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Peter addresses a common question for those seeking to improve the management of their organization: how do I proceed in the absence of executive level support? The management before that were skeptical.

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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). that will create problems for the organization.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 6, 2018

Kat Vanden Heuvel, Executive Director at Sawtooth Botanical Garden , shares how Deming principles have changed the way people think and work at her organization in this video with Nicole Luisi of Alerion. Doing so puts in place a strong and effective management system that reliably produces great results.

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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

MARCH 7, 2016

Edwards Deming conference presentation by Monta Akin, Kendra Shaffer and Jill Walker: W. Edwards Deming and the Leander Way. This view allowed them to focus on how to improve the system to allow students to learn. Often people will say Deming isn’t just the tools. That is certainly true.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Peter Scholtes shared his thoughts on Leading Quality: Some Practical Approaches to the Managers New Job at the 1992 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. Everything I’ve learned about quality, just about everything maybe 95% of what I know about quality, is either from Dr. Deming or Dr. Kano or their students.

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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

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. How to build succesful business right the first time. My business would be to advise SME on how to be sustainable in the long term applying quality principles right from the very beginning.

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Curious Cat

OCTOBER 27, 2015

I wrote a blog post about critical thinking perhaps being the most important catalyst to successful adoption of continually improvement management practices. A system that promotes critical thinking and puts continual improvement first is one that is well on the way to better management practices. I wish the effort in Costa Rica well.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. I think the “inspection” in code reviews is different enough that we can use code reviews as a valuable tool for managing software development. Like many practices the form it takes can vary quite a bit.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 25, 2019

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. On April 16-18, 1999, The Deming Institute hosted its annual spring conference in Tacoma, Washington, featuring keynotes from Russell Ackoff , Jamshid Gharajedaghi , and Tom Johnson. Learned from Dr. Deming; school and work are the same institution. Gold stars.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. I am glad to see the Business Roundtable agreeing with Dr. Deming, a few decades later. I suggest that those looking to put these ideas into action learn about how Deming’s ideas create a management system that does this well.

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. I also want to talk about Deming’s emphasis on the big picture, the big problems.

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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). that will create problems for the organization.

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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

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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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 27, 2016

I created the management sub-reddit many years ago. The management sub-reddit provides links to worthwhile management improvement content and the members indicate those links they liked. Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management by Julie Zhuo on Medium. Edwards Deming Institute blog.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Readers of this blog are aware of the problems created by using quotas: Achieved the goal by not the aim (2013) – The Futility of a Numerical Goal (2014) , Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (2013) , Dr. Deming on the problems with targets or goals.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 13, 2015

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth. Edwards Deming, The New Economics , page 35. One of the quotes you will see quite frequently “incorrectly” attributed to Dr. Deming is “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.”

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

This month Bill Troy, ASQ CEO, asked ASQ Influential Voices bloggers : “who influenced or inspired your management thinking and in what ways?” I have written about my management influences in the past: Active Management Improvement Leaders (2006) and Who Influences Your Thinking?

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 1, 2015

In the most recent Deming Institute podcast Ron Moen and Cliff Norman , of Associates in Process Improvement (API), discuss their paper (to be published in 2016), “Evolution of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge” and the “journey of learning” Dr. Deming and they have experienced.

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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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Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

ASQ has asked the Influential Voices on quality management to look at the question of integrating technical quality and human management systems. How do different systems—technical or human—work together? How should they work together? My view is that the management system must integrate these facets together.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2015 (based on page views). Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming. – Taiichi Ohno.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 21, 2016

Edwards Deming Institute. Lean Management Journal for several years that discuss how to apply Deming’s ideas (and related management improvement ideas) in organizations. People involved in a process need to know much more than ok or not-ok in order to manage and improve systems.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

In response to our request asking what topics readers would like to see addressed on our blog , Dan Bracewell said: I’d like to see some posts about how to implement change in an organization. How does one get an organization to start looking at itself as a system? Edwards Deming said in The New Economics.

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Deming Institute

JULY 17, 2017

Edwards Deming in Today’s IT, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. Poorani explains how the management system drives behavior that is not useful to the organization. The management system creates a punishment mechanism for missing estimates by over 10%. The business team asks for estimates for software development.

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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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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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