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Learning to Discern – Quality & Quantity

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The basic problem anywhere is quality. What is quality? A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. Once again, quality is about use. Dr. Deming explained quality with an appreciation of variation and, ultimately, use. Post by Bill Bellows.

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Book Review – Against All Odds: : The Story of the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Family That Created It

Deming Institute

Once upon a time, well before his name entered lean folklore, Taiichi Ohno graduated from industrial school and earned a position with Toyoda Spinning & Weaving as a supervisor. The year was 1933 and Ohno soon became well known for his mustache, added to further his image of authority with his direct reports, a large group of women.

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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2016

Curious Cat

– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. the aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine , to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. – Peter Block. – Brian Joiner *.

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6 Silent Productivity and Profitability Pitfalls, part 1 of 7

Strategy Driven

During this time, an engineer named Taiichi Ohno (known today as the father of Toyota) began the task of building a new capacity for Japanese industrial production. Ohno was then a student of Henry Ford’s industrial process designs and innovations, but these would no longer work given the circumstances in post-war Japan.

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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2015

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– Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. – Taiichi Ohno. the aim of leadership should be to improve the performance of man and machine , to improve quality, to increase output, and simultaneously to bring pride of workmanship to people. – Russell Ackoff. – Jack Ma.

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Break the Cycle

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming offered his many audiences in Japan, including students such as Shoichiro Toyoda, whose humble beginnings led to Toyota’s far reaching Total Quality Control efforts and the eventual appreciation of Toyota’s “Just in Time” (JIT) advocate, Taiichi Ohno.

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Using Technology to Improve The Sharing of Knowledge

Curious Cat

I published and presented (I think at an ASQ conference though I can’t recall which one right now) a paper on Using Quality to Develop an Internet Resource in 1999. A few years later I started this blog to help people find knowledge that would make them more likely to succeed with efforts to improve management. will help a great deal.