Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. His plan was to have the final assembly team disassemble these cars and learn firsthand how they were assembled. He did not believe the results and instructed the team to repeat the assembly operation.

System 74

System Productivity Products Deming 74

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?

Self-aware 50

Self-aware Engineering Chief Technology Officer Learning-by-Doing 50

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. In a superjob, technology has not only changed the nature of the skills the job requires but has changed the nature of the work and the job itself.” Learning fast and slow.

Competitive Advantage 59

Competitive Advantage Kaizen Technology Learning-by-Doing 59

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

The Future of Operations. The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. ” But here’s the problem for operations: Standardized processes that work are great. But if the folks at the head office get it wrong, then operations around the world can be locked into systematic dysfunction.

Process 8

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

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.) Also, to signal what TQM guru Deming called "constancy of purpose," choose a name that will always resonate, e.g., something tied to customers and service.

Six Sigma 13

Six Sigma TQM Kaizen Balanced Scorecard 13

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. The value of profits as an ingredient for organizations to sustain and develop their operations is undeniable. In his 1993 book, The New Economics , he posed “Profits must exist, and industry must work as a team in which all participants, large and small, prosper.” Further , “The boundary of a system….may

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Deming System Crisis Industry 28

Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Dr. Deming explained that the organization was a system that included the suppliers and customers. What matters is how you operate. If the other four had improved their relations by as much they collectively would have added $2 billion in 2014 operating profit, Henke said.

Long-term 28

Long-term Deming Cooper System 28

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.

Innovation 57

Innovation Engineering CIO System 57

Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. People should be encouraged to work together as a team. the company increases profitability and stays in business; and.

Management 40

Management CRM Objective Human Resources 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. The contrast was driven home by a full-blown reenactment of Deming’s famous red bead experiment.

Deming 8

Deming Management Senge Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2016

Many are betting on the new generation of technology firms to unsettle the old guard. With the rise of the smartphone and mobile technology, QQ failed to capture new users. Edward Deming , the father of quality movement in the 1950s, believed that what can’t be measured doesn’t get managed.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Metrics 8