Deming Institute

JANUARY 29, 2018

For more about systems thinking and root causes see: Stratify Data to Hone in on Special Causes of Problems and Root Cause, Interactions, Robustness and Design of Experiments. In the presentation Bill discusses how important viewing the organization as system is to creating solutions that work in a world with variation.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 23, 2015

‘ This quote is a wonderful view of Deming’s focus on the organization as a system versus the focus on individuals that is so common today. Creating a management system that focuses on long term continual improvement is much more difficult than repeating nice quotes though – unfortunately.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Mike goes on to elaborate about this problem: We think we can merely lift the methods and techniques that we see in great companies, like Toyota and others, and that we can have it [a strong and effective management system] as well. Because those systems are not going to drive those outcomes.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 22, 2017

We call this approach Professional Management, and have developed a system to implement it influenced by Dr. W. The score to which I referred was Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge. Managing one’s own golf play, although an individual game, has similarities to managing people in enterprise.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

The idea of testing opinions and beliefs is key to Deming’s management system (as it is to the scientific method). Related: Effective Decision Making – Optimize the Overall System Not the Individual Components. In my experience people don’t spend nearly enough time thinking.

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Curious Cat

MAY 13, 2015

The sensible aim is to optimize your life. The sensible aim is to optimize your life. As with any system the results depend on the overall system not the performance of individual parts taken separately. I have certainly followed this vision of optimizing life myself. We toured factories on vacation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

And with consistent control and governance policies applied, the security of the overall system — not just the individual instance — will be improved. This addresses governance, risk, and compliance, and leads to better workload analysis, placement, and – ultimately – cost optimization.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 20, 2009

Some people kindly picked it up on their Twitter radar but overall, I felt that its impact was, well, kind of flat. The Ugly Truth about Performance Review Systems is that: In an effort to get more specific about what is being measured, Performance Review systems have this tendency to become very cumbersome and complex.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Individual reluctance is mirrored in the health care system's belief that more care and technology can stave off death, and that what we don't talk about won't happen. But it always fails eventually, and when that occurs, our system, by and large, does a lousy job. And often that strategy works.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Those in Clinton’s camp include the venerable Aspen Institute, which produced a 2009 call to arms arguing that corporations’ short-term objectives corrode the “foundation of the American free enterprise system.” primary season. But that is far from true. ” A Review of Relevant Studies. .”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

They know their strategies, organizational capabilities, resources, and management systems should all be arranged to support the enterprise’s purpose. You might ask them about the enterprise overall, or about a single strategically important business line, activity or function. Consider McDonald’s.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Super-specialized physicians learned how to attack disease in various organs systems, and fatalism has gone out of fashion. And, as they suffer, they turn to medicine for help. But medicine, increasingly, has not provided them with relief. Suffering still goes on, of course, but it is often overlooked. See Thomas H.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

When the Riksbank Prizes in Economic Sciences (a.k.a. the economics Nobels) were announced last fall , the news was greeted with some confusion and amusement. It turns out, though, that there is significant common ground between the three winners. His name is John Campbell. Still, Campbell is a great explainer.

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