Deming Institute

MAY 21, 2018

Beginning in 1951, the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has awarded the Deming Prize to honor organizations, and later, individuals, for extraordinary accomplishments in quality management. ” Students of Dr. .” Yet, reducing common cause variation to zero overlooks Dr.

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Deming Institute

JULY 6, 2020

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). This is the seventh post in our Deming on Management series. Edwards Deming’s ideas. View our previous Deming on Management posts , including: Leadership , Appreciation for a System and the PDSA Cycle.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Previously published by Quality Digest. Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing the number of levels of management?” Deming, what do you think about the recent trend towards reducing the number of levels of management?”

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Deming Institute

MAY 7, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Sarah Pavelka ’s presentation, Deming and Lean: The Disparities and Similarities, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. This is one good tactic to use when introducing new management ideas.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Edwards Deming was the NBC Special (termed a “Whitepaper”), “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We?” His questions within resonated with me immediately, as I was a new supervisor for Bell Telephone. Why Deming? Edwards Deming. Like many people, my introduction to W. What can we do to work smarter, not harder?”

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 1, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Edwards Deming Institute offers events for those interested in applying Deming’s management ideas in their organizations. Leading with a Systems View: Deming Management Method for Owners and Executives.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

John and his father worked with Peter Scholtes for many years ( Out of the Crisis included a report on Bill Hunter and Peter’s efforts to help improve the City of Madison government). Peter starts the talk exploring myths about the practice of quality management. It takes more than improvement. Guest post by John Hunter.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 29, 2019

Guest post by Katie Groves, College Business Manager, College of Education and Human Development, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT. And that was just the beginning of a day filled with before and after stories that not only inspired but testified to the capacity of Deming’s Philosophy. April 3, 2019.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 21, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Balaji Reddie ’s presentation, Why Deming? Edwards Deming Institute Conference in 2018. A powerful point Balaji Reddie made during the presentation was that you learn about Deming’s ideas by applying them.

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Deming Institute

MAY 20, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Continuously improve our ability to do so. Barbara does a good job of explaining how copying the most visible aspects of companies applying Deming’s management methods doesn’t allow you to transform another organization.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. David Langford has taken his experience with applying Deming’s ideas to education to his position as the Superintendent of Ingenium schools in Los Angeles, California. It is critical to examine data with an understanding of variation.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Among other things, this presentation is a good option for those seeking an example that provides historical business results of an organization practicing Deming management methods.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 15, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. I’ve often heard Peter emphasis the importance of focusing improvement efforts on important matters for the organization. Take on your big business issues and show that Dr. Deming’s teachings are relevant to the major business needs.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 17, 2017

As noted in my June 26 th post, “It Depends…” , when asked in February 1990 about the trend towards reducing the number of levels of management in organizations, Dr. Deming answered, in his usual Socratic fashion: “Why have more levels than you need?”.

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Deming Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. We have to take a systems view of results.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 2, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The video shows the presentation at our 2012 annual conference by David Langford – When Deming Goes to School, Learning Takes a Front Seat. Dr. Deming said your sources of power come from primarily 3 sources.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 2, 2017

Tim Higgins provided the Deming 101 presentation at our 2016 annual conference – Curiosity, Learning, Knowledge, and Improvement: Tim starts off by saying that some people think Deming’s life was about variation but Deming’s purpose for understanding variation was to learn. This insight is wise.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. This webcast shows Mike Tveite’s presentation, Deming 101, given at the 2012 Annual W. Edwards Deming Institute Conference. Edwards Deming’s The New Economics (page 94*): The system of profound knowledge provides a lens.

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Deming Institute

MAY 20, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Continuously improve our ability to do so. Barbara does a good job of explaining how copying the most visible aspects of companies applying Deming’s management methods doesn’t allow you to transform another organization.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

While my work is usually associated with the term “Lean” and the lessons from the Toyota Production System, some of my earliest learning and inspiration for improvement came from the work of W. Edwards Deming. I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Yet, we have some leaders and practitioners who focus on only a few aspects of quality, to the detriment of the whole system. Focus on only some of the principles, practices, methods and tools cause us to miss the aim and purpose of an ethical system to deliver quality. Leadership’s example is critical.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Then he discusses the importance of understanding systems and why that requires a different type of thinking (synthesis). When you analyze a system you learn something but you don’t get understanding. LEARN MORE.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 8, 2011

Measurement is essential to “managing by fact” – otherwise you are left to lead with charm and personality. If it’s not being measured, it simply can’t be managed. Unmeasured systems tend to be highly variable systems, with all the negatives for quality that implies. Quality guru W.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Edwards Deming Institute provides online access to a recording, from 1992, of Dr. Deming’s Four-Day Seminar. Edwards Deming presenting the Red Bead Experiment. Optimization of a System. Motivation.

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Curious Cat

JULY 6, 2016

ASQ has asked the Influential Voices on quality management to look at the question of integrating technical quality and human management systems. How do different systems—technical or human—work together? My view is that the management system must integrate these facets together.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Then he discusses the importance of understanding systems and why that requires a different type of thinking (synthesis). When you analyze a system you learn something but you don’t get understanding.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. Gordon McGilton and Dennis Sergent share evidence from their experience that will help others transform their enterprises by focusing on their system and aim. So the accounting system doesn’t run the company.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Understanding Variation by Thomas Nolan, Rocco J. There have been large changes in the use of data since the publication of Understanding Variation, by Thomas Nolan and Lloyd Provost. The new article discusses how to use an understanding of variation when working with large datasets (for example, government data).

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 3, 2016

That criticism of the weak explanations provided for why such huge rewards are deserved is in line with what Deming taught. Edwards Deming’s shared. Edwards Deming was addressing the notion of “merit pay” in the context of workers in the system (not executives specifically). Edwards Deming.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

These were the most popular quotes on the Curious Cat Management and Leadership Quotes web site in 2015 (based on page views). Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure. Managers who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

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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 knowing what your customers want and creating system that can reliably delivering that to customers.

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Deming Institute

JULY 15, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Mike Tveite shared his presentation “The Deming Philosophy: New Ways To Think About The World” at the 1993 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. We have to take a systems view of results. Many causes interact to create results.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 10, 2017

We would all be better off if more companies would focus on the needs of their customers and how to continual improve their products and services to meet those needs. We would all be better off if more companies would focus on the needs of their customers and how to continual improve their products and services to meet those needs.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

This webcast shows Brian Hwarng ’s presentation, The Funnel Experiment, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. This insight is critical to understanding Deming’s ideas and applying them. Organizations are complex systems with many interdependent parts. Brian discusses the impact of interactions on results.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 1, 2018

Edwards Deming Institute You Tube channel in the last year. Edwards Deming in them are the most popular. Edwards Deming: The 14 Points : 46,000 views in 2017 (added 3 years ago – 106,000 total views all time). Dr. Deming – The 5 Deadly Diseases (1984) : 15,000 (8 years – 135,000 total views).

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