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Statistical Techniques Allow Management to do a Better Job

Deming Institute

In this post I discuss another wonderful paper by Dr. Deming. Edwards Deming Institute makes this paper, and many more, available on our website. Edwards Deming, 1954: For all four groups of people [management, statistical administration, research, front-line workers], the statistical method is more than an array of techniques.

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Creating Technology Solutions that are Appropriate Given the System Context

Deming Institute

Kentaro Toyama ‘s presentation at the 2016 Annual Deming Institute Conference – Geek Heresy: Technology’s Law of Amplification. This idea is very familiar to those of us using Dr. Deming’s ideas. From the website for Kentaro’s book, Geek Heresy.

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StrategyDriven Welcomes Hank Moore | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Edwards Deming. These qualities make it invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. He is a Futurist and Corporate Strategist TM , with four trademarked concepts of business… heralded widely for ways to remediate corporate damage, enhance productivity and facilitate better business. Presidents.

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Functional Websites are Normally Far Superior to Apps

Curious Cat

Certainly smart phones are a huge and rapidly growing market. It is possible that smart phones will develop much better functionality and perhaps projection screens (or googles). But it is less understandable when companies that are thought of as technology savvy are as blinded by their history (can’t see out of the app-mindset).

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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. Authors James D.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Edwards Deming, who used it extensively in Japan in the years following World War II. Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking.

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The 'Invisibles' in Business Performance

QAspire

Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”. Deming opined that everything that is critical for business performance may not be measurable. Well said, Tanmay!

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