QAspire
MAY 20, 2018
During 2001 dot com bubble, one of my friends, a competent software developer, was laid off because of lack of business in the technology he worked in. He was smart enough to understand that the company needed people in a new project that was to be developed on a totally different technology. Related Posts at QAspire.
The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 16, 2022
Edwards Deming famously remarked that “in God we trust, but everyone else should bring data.” The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. Despite this huge outlay, research from Rotman highlights the profoundly mixed returns seen on that investment.
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The Horizons Tracker
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen, and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions.
Deming Institute
JULY 30, 2015
In 2014 I presented a paper at the 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar on the topic of “ Understanding and Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare.” Dr. Deming is cited several times in the book, and the reader will find evidence of Dr. Deming’s thinking throughout the 180 pages of the book.
Deming Institute
FEBRUARY 29, 2016
Each time technology advances to allow for collection, storage, and analysis of more data, we have the opportunity to expand the boundaries of the systems that we can analyze and improve. As Dr. Deming would say, “ Without a theory there is no learning.” What is our theory? Theory poses questions that guide analysis.
Deming Institute
AUGUST 30, 2018
Edwards Deming, the father of the quality movement, defined quality as “pride in workmanship.” Deming said that competition squeezes out intrinsic motivation while collaboration nurtures intrinsic motivation, curiosity and joy in learning. Deming, The New Economics, see reference 2, p. References.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 26, 2015
Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work. This doesn’t mean that analytical skills have become less important. “You need of have both types of skills.”
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