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Reliability: Another Dimension of Quality

Deming Institute

2015 ASA Deming Lecture by William Meeker – Reliability: The Other Dimension of Quality: William Meeker begins the presentations discussing his experience with W. The presentation continues on the topic of reliability and that section provides some examples of the challenges with analytic systems.

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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. Brent spoke of several process improvements demonstrating Deming’s Chain Reaction (improving processes increases quality and reduces costs). 2012, Dr. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology.

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Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective

Deming Institute

Deming Consults on Quality. 2012, Dr. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology. 2014, Sharon Lohr: Red Beads and Profound Knowledge: Deming and Quality of Education. 2015, William Meeker: ReliabilityAnother Dimension of Quality. 2011, Roger Hoerl: Need Any Country be Poor?

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How to Improve at Work When You’re Not Getting Feedback

Harvard Business Review

While everyone will have different strengths and weaknesses they need to work on, when we examined our database of performance evaluation information for more than 7,000 individual contributors and 5,000 managers, we noticed a reliable pattern. Another critical component was the quality of work. Being a trusted collaborator.

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Are Successful People Nice?

Harvard Business Review

By way of background, conventional personality research defines agreeableness as two related qualities: (1) the extent to which you value getting along with others, and (2) the degree to which you are willing to be critical of others. There are plenty of quizzes out there to measure the "Big Five" personality dimensions.

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To Manage a Platform, Think of It as a Micromarket

Harvard Business Review

Build networks, ones where people can compare and contrast similar, but not the same , services along multiple dimensions of quality. When you buy a bond from an anonymous seller, it’s one thing , but when they’re coming over to your house or you’re getting in their car, it’s another.

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To Negotiate Effectively, First Shake Hands

Harvard Business Review

At the last moment, however, Rouhani decided not to meet Obama, leading American pundits to call the incident the “historic non-handshake” that risked compromising the quality of the ensuing negotiations. People make inferences about one another’s motives based on first impressions, which occur extremely quickly. Negotiations ?

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