Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice. Edwards Deming cautioned against clinging to examples , and for good reason. But many people like to learn about how others have applied Deming’s ideas. is a model I believe in.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

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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Agility Nonaka Takeuchi Innovation 8

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950. To Pipp’s amazement, one car purchased was 100% snap fit. The discovery was not lost on Pipp.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 17, 2011

The concept of inclusion in business started when Quality gurus like Deming asked Americans to drop the ‘product-out’ mentality and instead practice a ‘customer-in’ mindset. Why could he not use the assembly line method used by the burger company to maximize the number of operations every surgeon performs?

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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. Duke and James D. Murphy For the last 50 years, elite U.S. Authors James D. Murphy and William M.

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Six Sigma Learning-by-Doing Training Tools 57

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Edwards Deming wrote: "A bad system will defeat a good person, every time." Indeed, Zimbardo is attempting a grand social experiment himself called the Heroic Imagination Project (watch his TED Talk here). The logic is that we can increase the odds of people operating with courage by teaching them the principles of heroism.

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Zimbardo Herzberg Bureaucracy Deming 19

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Innovation Engineering is validated in real-world practice, and has been the launch pad for more than $16 billion in growth and system improvement projects. Left brainers are critical to accomplishing the engineering, finance, production and operational work that’s required to make meaningful change happen. hypotheses and experiments.

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Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2012

Edwards Deming , the father of quality, said "A bad process will beat a good person every time," and Fujio Cho , a former president of Toyota, famously said, "We get brilliant results from average people managing brilliant processes, while our competitors get average or worse results from brilliant people managing broken processes."

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Compliance Merchandising Deming Pharmaceuticals 13