Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused. When we buy a product, we essentially “hire” it to help us do a job. If it does the job well, the next time we’re confronted with the same job, we tend to hire that product again.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

I was happy to see John Hunter share the article on the Deming Institute blog last year , along with some context. The SHS journal article starts with a brief introduction, not in the original document, by Dr. Deming that summarizes the key points, all of which are still relevant today. The lesson learned? Many hands go up.

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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 ). So I doubt it would be hard to rethink of whatever I had thought of back then and new technology would increase the possibilities. The benefits they bring are very hard to calculate.

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

seeing cause and effect patterns within your environment, peoples’ behaviors and even within yourself … such as “when I take 5 minutes to plan daily, I have a more productive, focused day.”). The personal computer revolution was started by putting together existing technologies in a way never done before. These leaders are innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

You hear a lot about “agile innovation” these days. A more reasonable starting point might be the 1930s, when the physicist and statistician Walter Shewhart of Bell Labs began applying Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles to the improvement of products and processes. They keep customers happier. They enjoy their work more.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

The first decade of the 21st century brought about an incredible amount of technological advances — Facebook, Twitter, Android, iPod/iTunes/iPhone/iPad, and many other innovations transformed how we communicate, work, and live. struggled to compete with higher quality products from Japan in many industries.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The classic method of segregating innovation to a single department, or to a process led by specialists, just isn’t fast enough any longer. What’s needed is a culture in which innovation is the mission of everyone, everywhere, every day. Most innovation methods don’t actually result in innovative solutions.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

Imagine you are a product manager at Proctor and Gamble or Unilever and are charged with designing a new line of detergents or packaged food. You cannot presume that packaging is simply a matter of clever design that helps your products fly off the shelves of a super market. Sustainability is part of every professional’s job.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. But, do organizations solely exist to earn profits or meet financial goals, or, are their profits the result of how well they invest their resources, from innovation to revenue and equipment, and then deliver new and improved products or services? Post by Bill Bellows. billion and a quarterly net profit of $7.7

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Fed by consultants, gurus, technology vendors, and academics, their enthusiasm for a particular process improvement method takes on a religious tone (as I described in my last post.) Also, to signal what TQM guru Deming called "constancy of purpose," choose a name that will always resonate, e.g., something tied to customers and service.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

They ran productive meetings. The benefit of this is: costs decrease because of less rework, fewer mistakes, fewer delays, and better use of time and materials; productivity improves; market share increases with better quality and prices. Processes, products, and services should be improved constantly; reducing waste.

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