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Applying Deming’s Management Ideas at the Great Plains Coca Cola Bottling Company

Deming Institute

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Among other things, this presentation is a good option for those seeking an example that provides historical business results of an organization practicing Deming management methods.

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In Search of Excellence

Deming Institute

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. Edwards Deming . There is not a day I don’t think about what Dr. Deming meant to us. Deming is the core of our management.”. Phillip Crosby.

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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. You need to use reliable processes for action and continually improve your processes based on studying your results. 14 Deming principles. Deming System of Profound knowledge. 20 SME Steps.

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People Copy Examples and Wonder Why They Don’t Succeed

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. But when we try and copy practices, processes, techniques, etc. When it does work well it is usually a very simple process that has few interactions or dependencies with the containing system. Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?”

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Wouldn’t It Be Nice?

Deming Institute

While neither group may have heard of Alfred Politz , a pioneer in the field of market research, they would have surely appreciated his perspective on competition, borrowed by Dr. Deming for use on the opening page of The New Economics. “Nothing can do you so much harm,” Politz fancied, “as a lousy competitor.

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Using Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge to Gain Insight into Data Collection

Deming Institute

The theory of knowledge helps us recognize that someone decides what data to collect and what operational definitions to use. Knowledge about variation helps us recognize that obtaining data (measurements) is a process and that variation is present in all processes.

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Debriefing as Continuous Improvement

Strategy Driven

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.