Curious Cat

JULY 25, 2017

When people try to use a short quote as an accurate encapsulation of a management concept they will often be disappointed. It is obvious that Dr. Deming believed that organizations failed to use data effectively to improve needed to change and use data effectively in order to thrive over the long term.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. My business would be to advise SME on how to be sustainable in the long term applying quality principles right from the very beginning. I applied for the Deming grant to learn more about him and be able to implement his teachings more accurately.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Guest post by Michael Godfried: planner and policy analyst in Washington State and Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Like Dr. Deming, age is no barrier to his continued intellectual vigor. Dr. Deming believed that organizations should seek excellence both in their outcomes and processes.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. We plan to use this blog to explore examples of management action today (using the lens of Deming’s ideas to view those actions) in order to help illustrate how Deming’s ideas can be put into practice.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. The producer-as-customer is quick to judge the product quality and adjust the design-procurement-fabrication-assembly process, as needed, should the resultant product quality fall short of expectations. Deming is the core of our management.”

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Deming Institute

MAY 7, 2018

This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Leaders must understand the system… if they go back to that flavor of the month they are going to struggle and they are definitely going to struggle with Deming or the lean concepts.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 10, 2017

So often companies focus on the short term to the detriment of long term success. One of the challenges is that the implications of his quote naturally fit into an organization with a management system built with an appreciation of Deming’s ideas but often run into challenges in other organizations.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 24, 2017

But building and maintaining a management culture that reinforces delighting customers and long term thinking is quite difficult. There are many reasons I support and wish to see the wider adoption of Deming’s ideas. It requires a sustainable business plan that is robust and able to succeed over the long term.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The 2017 hurricane season highlights the high cost of short-term decisions that have long-term and often incalculable consequence. Deming’s theory of management – but their approach brings Point #1 of Dr. Deming’s 14 Points for Management to mind: create a constant purpose toward improvement.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. We plan to use this blog to explore examples of management action today (using the lens of Deming’s ideas to view those actions) in order to help illustrate how Deming’s ideas can be put into practice.

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Deming Institute

JULY 27, 2017

Edwards Deming and other great thought leaders. Dr. Deming’s timeless teachings have been, and will continue to be, a driving influence because we see his philosophies work. The car ran for a short time and then it died. However, the Deming school of thought views costs as ends, not means, as results, not causes.

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”. Deming opined that everything that is critical for business performance may not be measurable. Well said, Tanmay!

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Cooperperson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Managers focus on quick fixes and short-term benefits. Coaches believe that long-term benefits are more useful. You overhear an employee be short tempered with a customer. Which one produces long term learning—your answers or the simple, efficient questions you ask that guides people to discover answers on their own?

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Edwards Deming, Point 1 or the 14 points for management , page 23 of Out of the Crisis. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis, page 25. They were meant to be specific items related to Deming’s management system to help people understand specific practices present in his management system. This obligation never ceases… W.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

This webcast shows Mike Stoecklein’s presentation, Understanding and Misunderstanding Variation in Healthcare, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. In the talk Mike referenced Dr. Deming’s quote from If Japan Can… Why Can’t We : American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan—but they don’t know what to copy!

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Deming Institute

MARCH 16, 2017

Kevin Murphy’s presentation at the 14th In2:InThinking Annual Forum Weekend Conference: Application and Lessons of Deming’s Perspective on Leadership: Kevin is the President at Triumph Accessory Services. After graduating from the Deming Scholars program at Fordham University he worked for GE Aircraft Engines. quote: 81m 30s).

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the short term reducing costs in such a manner improves the financial statements. If instead we create a continual improvement capability and culture in the organization we will make improvements that in turn reduce costs (the Deming chain reaction). Edwards Deming said in this interview with Bill Scherkenbach.

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Deming Institute

MAY 16, 2016

Presentation by Jake Rodgers and Phyllis Tubbs: Dr. Deming’s Influence on One Elementary School Principal at the 1st annual Deming in Education Conference: Jake asks a good question (as he learned from David Langford who learned it from W. Edwards Deming. What’s your theory?

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Deming Institute

JULY 12, 2017

Ben did well in school in the early years-when the AIM was on the learning , something, I’ve learned from Dr. Deming, we are all conditioned to do well in our early years. Earlier this year, David was honored by ASQ with the Deming Medal for his 30+ year legacy of advocating the use of Deming management in education.).

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. But Dr. Deming understood the damage targets cause. Edwards Deming, quotes in Profits Beyond Measure by H. Point 10 on W.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 8, 2017

Between culture work on these terms and Vegas – the odds of success are better in Vegas. The culture we know through our traditional management lens is often described in terms of people, the work environment, and perks, to name a few. He brings his gym clothes home twice a year: after mid-terms and finals. What happens?

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The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

day environment, not in short?term term bursts of hype. Deming considers slogans to be just another form of exhortation. “What is wrong with posters and exhortations”, thunders Deming, “(is that) they are directed at the wrong people. But the real question is; why aren’t they motivated?

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Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

Edwards Deming discussed frequently and emphasized in his management system ). It requires thoughtful application of good management improvement ideas based on the current capabilities of the organization and the short, medium and long term priorities the organization is willing to commit to.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

But I wonder if that’s a great long-term strategy? Would that be a short term sacrifice that would benefit the bigger system and thus ultimately the business itself? And the SI term is constantly changing over time, so it’s ultimately impossible to measure. Is there something better?

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Edwards Deming, so appreciating the importance of a systemic view is to be expected. A deep appreciation for the long term needs of your customers and potential customers should guide where in the system to continually improve. In those instances short term survivability needs to guide priorities.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 28, 2016

Gemba walk” (lean thinking term) to go to the actual place where value is added + “walkabout” (Australian aborigine) a short period of wandering bush life engaged as an occasional interruption of regular work. Deming – What I Learned at the 21st Annual International Deming Research Summit.

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Deming Institute

JULY 31, 2017

On a summer weekend in 1997, I visited my office for a short time before heading home after a few errands near work. In simple terms, buying low and selling high, with consideration for the size of the system (including time), is the foundation of examining systemic improvements.

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Curious Cat

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

A continual improvement culture is one that is constantly changing to improve (grounded in long term principles: respect for people, experiment, iterate quickly, etc.). Using those strategies as a long term solution for dealing with change in a toxic culture isn’t a very sensible way to manage.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 29, 2015

But if weeks and then months go by without the most important issues being addressed the long term consequences are drastic. As managers and executives it is critical to focus on the long term success of the organization. To do so, you must have your effort focused on important areas for long term success.

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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.

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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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