Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2014
Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Organizations still emphasize exploitation of existing advantages , driving a short-term orientation that many bemoan. Townes, and Henry L.
Deming Institute
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
These efforts are often aligned through a non-linear process improvement cycle that resembles the hand drawn version of this figure, which Deming shared with Japanese executives long before the aforementioned discoveries by Frank Pipp and Larry Sullivan. We begin with a piece of molding that is too long and needs to be cut to length.
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