Deming Institute

AUGUST 10, 2017

Some years ago, W’s management saw fit to expand the purview of “performance management” to include employees’ personal business: employees spending more than 6 minutes a day in the restroom risk being written up. I suspect this stroke of timesaving brilliance was born out of a not-so-unusual concern about productivity or output.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.” Read on to learn how procrastination might be killing your productivity.” Michael Lee Stallard presents Develop the Heart of a Champion posted at Michael Lee Stallard.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.". Janna Rust presents Procrastination and Productivity posted at Purposeful Leadership , saying, "What are you procrastinating with right now? William Matthies presents Instead, How About.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 14, 2019

Guest post by Mustafa Shraim , ASQ Fellow and Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology and Management, Ohio University. Variation is life or life is variation ” is how Dr. Deming described the extent of what we observe in our personal and work outcomes.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 30, 2018

Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, defined quality as “pride in workmanship.” We must move beyond quality in the product, the individual and the organization, and toward a broader cultural movement as a society, and that starts with our children. My wife was so impressed that no one spilled anything.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Deming’s “Some Notes on Management in a Hospital.” I was happy to see John Hunter share the article on the Deming Institute blog last year , along with some context. A system doesn’t design itself and a system doesn’t manage itself. This was frustrating and not good for his cash flow, of course. The lesson learned?

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), Your reference to gaps in the lateral movement of work reminded be of Frank Voehl’s post on the Deming Learning Network - “Managing the White Space&#.

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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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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. Patterns recognition (ie.,

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The Practical Leader

JULY 20, 2011

To win today, you have to delight and astound your customers — with products and services that far exceed their expectations.&# The first two rings (my last two blog posts) deal with things — technology, products, services, systems, processes, structures, and so on. That’s even truer today. The quality guru, W.

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Sharpe Deming Hotels Quality 53

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. The content of this blog was prepared as an article for the first edition of the Lean Management Journal, later known as The LMJ. His plan was to have the final assembly team disassemble these cars and learn firsthand how they were assembled.

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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 ). The organization really should focus on improving the management system so it isn’t such a barrier to improvement. So if your purpose is to improve management you need to address that.

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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. But it is often the processes that helped create and manage these technologies that prove most enduring.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

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. Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

Old dogs will learn new tricks when the lead dog — or ape, or penguin, depending on the management fable of the moment — shows them off. The workers, the managers, and even the executives look around to see if their environment has changed, if the tried-and-true behaviors that made their world work will continue to do so.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The journey of the four decades, of growing from an entry-level professional to a leader among fellow professionals invariably calls for mastery over four things: the ability to efficiently manage resources, volume, complexity and finally, rainmaking. Just look at the ‘product of origin’ information on an Apple device.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2012

It stems from the cold, brutal reality that most managers simply do not use data they don't trust: "These numbers don't look right. In principle, one could measure the associated costs, but they pale in comparison to the costs of trying to manage when you don't know what's going on. Mere managers find all of this daunting indeed.

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Quality Parcell Cost Deming 14

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

The result: Employees get confused and cynical (senior management's "flavor of the month"). 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.) Under the guidance of external coaches, the $7.2

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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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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. ” Mostly looking at individual workers, he figured out that standardization and optimization of work processes could lead to astonishing improvement in productivity. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Left brainers are critical to accomplishing the engineering, finance, production and operational work that’s required to make meaningful change happen. Edwards Deming, a renowned systems specialist, observed: “Ninety-four percent of problems are caused by the system — 6 percent by the workers.” Patent filings in the U.S.

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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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