Deming Institute

APRIL 20, 2017

Sharon Lohr presented the 2014 American Statistical Association (ASA) Deming Lecture – Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education ( slides with notes and references ). Edwards Deming in her presentation: Numerical goals accomplish nothing. By what method?

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 9, 2019

This is the fourth post in our “Deming on Management” series. Edwards Deming’s ideas on management. Previous series posts provided resources on the PDSA cycle, psychology and the red bead experiment. Previous series posts provided resources on the PDSA cycle, psychology and the red bead experiment.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. I wrote a previous post on this blog about a paper he wrote about using Deming’s ideas at Intermountain Healthcare. On this success Brent says.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent Barabba presented the 2016 ASA Deming Lecture: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective. The idea of testing opinions and beliefs is key to Deming’s management system (as it is to the scientific method). In my experience people don’t spend nearly enough time thinking.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 16, 2018

2015 ASA Deming Lecture by William Meeker – Reliability: The Other Dimension of Quality: William Meeker begins the presentations discussing his experience with W. Edwards Deming in relation to a paper by Meeker and Gerald Hahn. Guest post by John Hunter , who founded curiouscat.com in 1996.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. In reflecting on the popularity of lean, I offer a proposal to those who provide both educational resources and qualifications to lean practitioners. The same could be said for a quality goal of 6.3 Yet, what can be said of the limits to standardization?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work. The contrast was driven home by a full-blown reenactment of Deming’s famous red bead experiment.

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