Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. We plan to use this blog to explore examples of management action today (using the lens of Deming’s ideas to view those actions) in order to help illustrate how Deming’s ideas can be put into practice.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. It is easy to focus on short term goals and use a somewhat simple short term figure to measure success. They simply get a letter from me every two years and call me when they wish.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

While my work is usually associated with the term “Lean” and the lessons from the Toyota Production System, some of my earliest learning and inspiration for improvement came from the work of W. Edwards Deming. I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 31, 2017

Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders. Dr. Deming’s timeless teachings have been, and will continue to be, a driving influence because we see his philosophies work. As businesses move beyond the start-up phase, a systematic approach to your business is critical to sustainable and strategic growth.

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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. 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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The term ‘professional’ comes from the Latin word ‘professio,’ which literally means to take an oath or a vow. Over the last few centuries, the term professional has come to mean different things to different people, but that central idea has not changed. That one thing changed a long time back.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

Working to find and fix errors is part and parcel of most operational processes, and once they turn a harsh eye on non-value-added work, most leaders can root it out. Worse, these billing errors make it more difficult to build a long-term, trusted relationship with your customers; these lost opportunity costs are probably unknowable.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

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. Move towards developing a long-term relationship with a single supplier. employee interaction and co-operation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

These kinds of statements speak to a leader’s choice of values, and a failure to understand the relationships between a safe work environment and operational performance. The reality is that virtually all workplace injuries are preventable, and safety management and operational excellence are intimately linked.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Case in point: a few years ago over lunch in the Shell Oil cafeteria in London, a long time employee and I were comparing Shell and Exxon. "At On the one hand, processes trump people in terms of getting work done right. The answer isn't obvious. At Exxon they have standard procedures for everything.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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