Deming Institute

JULY 3, 2017

In his presentation at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar Joseph Schneider discusses his efforts to apply Deming’s ideas within Siemens. This is useful as this is true for nearly every (every one that I know of) attempt to apply Deming’s ideas on management.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. I wrote a previous post on this blog about a paper he wrote about using Deming’s ideas at Intermountain Healthcare. Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician.

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Deming Institute

MAY 20, 2019

Leading The Transformation Process, Barbara Lawton’s presentation at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference: Aim of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Barbara’s words (building on Deming’s quote “ provide jobs and more jobs “). Edwards Deming.

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Curious Cat

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I have posted about Brian previously on this blog including: Interview of Bill Hunter, Brian Joiner and Peter Scholtes on Better Management Practices Dangers of Forgetting the Proxy Nature of Data Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (my post on The W.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Might this proverb apply to systems leadership in schools, as well? Is “tunefulness” the optimal state for a system to best achieve its desired results? How might a leader promote a “tuneful harmony” so that the system that is neither too tightly or loosely “strung?”.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

The video shows the presentation at our 2012 annual conference by David Langford – When Deming Goes to School, Learning Takes a Front Seat. A previous post on our blog included an except from this talk: Attributing Fault to the Person Without Considering the System. Deming’s message is really about transformation.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Create-Learning’s Exponent Leadership Process is the solution – Contact Us to discuss how Mike can support your organization, teams and management to be the reason people stay with your company. 5 steps to a better employee appraisal process. Does you company have a system that works? I tend to side with W. What do you think?

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Deming Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. But they are packed with content and if you are serious about applying Deming’s ideas they are incredibly powerful resources.

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Deming Institute

MAY 20, 2019

Leading The Transformation Process, Barbara Lawton’s presentation at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference: Aim of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Barbara’s words (building on Deming’s quote “ provide jobs and more jobs “). Edwards Deming.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

From Dr. Deming’s last interview ; published in Industry Week magazine. The results of a system must be managed by paying attention to the entire system. When we optimize sub-components of the system we don’t necessarily optimize the overall system. Or why do you hire live wood and kill it?

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

This fear often results in people focusing on other areas of Deming’s message, while ignoring the impact of understanding variation. The power of control charts is in the insight into the processes and systems in your organization. I enjoy working with data and seeking to understand what I can learn from the data.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 4, 2019

Edwards Deming Institute® and W. Edwards Deming’s grandson). This new 3rd Edition (published 25 years after the 1st edition) also includes a new chapter by Kelly Allan : “Why Deming? Edwards Deming has also been published. You can use our Deming quotes website to view quotes from The New Economics.

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LDRLB

JULY 7, 2010

W Edwards Deming was an American statistician, considered the father of the modern quality movement. In 1982, Edwards Deming published “ Out of the Crisis ” identifying 14 points for management which if applied would enable Japanese manufacturing efficiencies to be realized. Assert that processes make mistakes not people.

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Deming Institute

MAY 4, 2020

It seems to me, the conference presentations available online (from OQPF and the Deming Institute and elsewhere) are a valuable resource that most managers fail to take advantage of. What you can do it guide and support, but control is an illusion in large complex systems (such as managing an organization).

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. They had been conflicted because the interview process was normally an important part of the hiring process.

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Deming Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. Mike Tveite: We don’t understand processes just by looking at defects, we need to be studying whole processes unless there are signals there are special causes.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

The Deming Dimension by Henry Neave provides good historical background and then a well presented explanation of Deming’s ideas on management. It is one of the best books to read to learn about Deming’s ideas. This book by Henry Neave explains why the prevailing system of management has led us into decline.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 21, 2016

In this Deming Institute podcast ( download the podcast ) Kevin Cahill and David Langford share how The Deming in Education Initiative was conceived, the impact of the Deming Philosophy on education, and where the Initiative is going in the future. But the roots of Deming in Education go even further back.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. So the accounting system doesn’t run the company.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 18, 2016

Cornell Policy Review published a special issue exploring the application of systems thinking to public policy problems. Graduate students were given an introduction to systems thinking and then applied the concepts to address issues their field. Thinking Systemically about Worker Retention in Texas’ Child Protective Services.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Then he discusses the importance of understanding systems and why that requires a different type of thinking (synthesis). When you analyze a system you learn something but you don’t get understanding. … The result of analysis of a system is knowledge. Ackoff starts with a very good explanation of analytic thinking.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 21, 2016

Edwards Deming Institute podcast with Dr. Sophronia (Frony) Ward, Managing and Founding Partner of Pinnacle Partners , Process Behavior Charts are the Secret to Understanding the Organization as a System ( direct download ), is another in our understanding variation series. the overall system is sub-optimized. Frony Ward.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Edwards Deming stated in Out of the Crisis: Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. The waste of having processes that create defects and then use inspection to catch them is certainly something to avoid. This is a form of coaching that is done using the code review process which seems perfectly fine to me.

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Deming Institute

MAY 21, 2018

Beginning in 1951, the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded the Deming Prize to honor organizations, and later, individuals, for extraordinary accomplishments in quality management. A critical first step in striving for the “right uniformity” is achieving processes which are predictable; otherwise known as stable.

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Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

ASQ has asked the Influential Voices on quality management to look at the question of integrating technical quality and human management systems. How do different systems—technical or human—work together? My view is that the management system must integrate these facets together. How should they work together?

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Deming Institute

APRIL 11, 2016

We have several events scheduled throughout 2016 for those interested in applying Dr. Deming’s ideas today. Deming Management Method for Owners and Executives. This seminar is aimed at those interested in implementing Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (a.k.a. Deming in Education Seminar.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 14, 2019

Variation is life or life is variation ” is how Dr. Deming described the extent of what we observe in our personal and work outcomes. Dr. Deming demonstrated the impact of tampering using his well-known funnel experiment. To summarize, the experiment involved three scenarios: (1) Run the process as is – no adjustments allowed. (2)

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The Quest of Better Outcomes: Hierarchy And Process In quest of better outcomes (efficiency, results, productivity, improvements etc.), These structural changes won’t produce the desired outcomes if the flow (process) aspect is not addressed. Because, work flows horizontally.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 28, 2016

Appreciation for a system is one of the four components of Deming’s management system. In this context the most common item to think of is Deming’s diagram of an organization as a system. But systems thinking has an entire body of knowledge that is useful. That is a powerful diagram.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 20, 2015

Gordon McGilton, director of a private equity fund with investment in multiple industries, discusses applying Deming’s management ideas at the companies they invest in. Gordon will be presenting the 4 Day Deming seminar with Heero Hacquebord 27 to 30 April in Columbus, Ohio. It requires a coherent system of management.

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Deming Institute

MAY 5, 2015

Keith Sparkjoy – Discovering Deming: Cultural Evolution at Pluralsight from The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2014 Annual Conference. Edwards Deming Institute conference – Discovering Deming: Cultural Evolution at Pluralsight using the webcast above. Enjoy Keith Sparkjoy’s presentation at the 2014 W.

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Deming Institute

MAY 26, 2016

2016 Deming Institute Annual Conference. Lean coffee session at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. Edwards Deming Institute®. Tim Higgins, NASA System & Mission Assurance Specialist. September 16 – 18, 2016. Michigan State University. East Lansing, Michigan. Find more information and the registration form.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. They had been conflicted because the interview process was normally an important part of the hiring process.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 25, 2016

The Deming Management Method by Mary Walton was a book that served to introduce many to the ideas of W. Edwards Deming. Dr. Deming wrote an introduction to the book, including these words: In the decade after the War [the Second World War], the rest of the world was devastated. The book was published in 1988.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 11, 2015

Edwards Deming Institute 2014 annual conference. And McDonalds also told her to go to a Deming 4 day seminar. Over the next few years I was able to transform my company because of my work with Dr. Deming. Paula Marshall, CEO, The Bama Companies presentation at The W. Her company bakes all the apple pies for McDonalds.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

How does one get an organization to start looking at itself as a system? In short, how does one get an organization to listen to what Deming had to say? ” This makes “selling” organizations on the idea of adopting the Deming management system more challenging. Edwards Deming said in The New Economics.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

Edwards Deming, warned us of this pitfall. These exert pressure up and down the system to make the numbers look good, instead of continuously improving the work processes and systems to achieve true quality. Give your higher functioning mental processes a chance to recover from the shock of the inappropriate order.

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