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Break the Cycle

Deming Institute

Ru ssell Ackoff had a profound capacity for using stories to educate his audiences about the basic concepts of managing systems, both in his lectures and in his books. Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. He also had a profound way with words.

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Learning to Discern – Quality & Quantity

Deming Institute

Yukiyasu Togo, a former employee and co-author of Against All Odds: The Story of the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Family That Created It , provided an explanation of Shoichiro Toyoda’s desire to implement a quality-based system, in parallel with the quantity-based Just-in-Time (JIT) system.

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