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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. Authors James D. Murphy and William M.

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The Next Big Thing in Managing Innovation

Harvard Business Review

This was a comprehensive way to assign priorities to competing projects, based on their total costs and benefits. In the 1970s, the success of the Apollo missions to the moon spurred management innovation in project management. Related processes like Six Sigma and Total Quality Management became widespread, as the U.S.

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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

Deming Institute

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950. Years later, in 2005, Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, Chairman and former President (1982-1999) of Toyota, accepted the American Society for Quality’s Deming Medal.

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