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EBM: Deming & Quality

LDRLB

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. Deming’s 14 Points: Create constancy of purpose and continual improvement where long-term planning replaces short-term reaction.

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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

Six Disciplines

Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management. He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Non-meaningful slogans are counter-productive substitute for real management.

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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

Six Disciplines

Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management. He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Non-meaningful slogans are counter-productive substitute for real management.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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Deming's Fourteen Points of Quality Management

Six Disciplines

Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management. He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management : Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Non-meaningful slogans are counter-productive substitute for real management.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

And the Fundaments of managing by objectives : Cascading of organizational goals and objectives, (For example, a top level goal of increasing sales by 20% over a defined period may require a bottom level goal of increasing marketing effectiveness or marketing coverage in order to reach the sales set.). Measurable. Achievable.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag alone; instead, try a long-term relationship based on established loyalty and trust. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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