Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We learned the quality lessons of Edward Deming, Joseph Juran, and Phil Crosby as well as the lean thinking lessons of James Womack. We got our black belts in six-sigma; words or acronyms like Kaizen, PDCA, TQM, QC and ISO became everyday parts of our work language. The benefits were significant. Fun Leaders Are Light.

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Six Sigma TQM Airlines Wilde 150

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. I also want to talk about Deming’s emphasis on the big picture, the big problems.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 16, 2013

Edwards Deming, considered the father of the quality movement, began championing his ideas for a statistical approach to quality in the 1940s and ’50s. While Deming’s message fell on deaf ears in America, Japan desperately needed to rebuild its economy after World War II. Six Disciplines Execution Revolution by Gary Harpst.

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Quality Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Deming 91

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Edwards Deming, considered the father of the quality movement, began championing his ideas for a statistical approach to quality in the 1940s and ’50s. While Deming’s message fell on deaf ears in America, Japan desperately needed to rebuild its economy after World War II. Six Disciplines Execution Revolution by Gary Harpst.

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Quality Six Sigma Lean Manufacturing Deming 78

The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

Starting in the late eighties and eventually morphing into Lean/Six Sigma, the quality movement completely revolutionized management thinking throughout much of the western world. “Sloganeering” and Internal Marketing. A great many organizations have fallen into internal marketing traps.

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Quality Six Sigma Deming System 49

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

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.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2015

Edwards Deming , who introduced quality as a way of life for Japanese companies. And processes like Six Sigma quality control became hugely popular after GE publicly adopted the concept. Scale and efficiency are mostly about competing by lowering costs. “Quality is free” became a mantra. Insight Center.

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Six Sigma Company Lean Production Taylorism 8