Deming Institute

JUNE 17, 2019

There are many ways in which the management of our organizations needs to improve ( understanding how to use data effectively , systems thinking…) and one of those important areas is in managing people. Guest post by John Hunter , founder of curiouscat.com (in 1996). This is excellent advice.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Deming Lecture at the 2012 ASA Joint – Quality Improvement: From Autos and Chips to Nano and Bio” by Jeff Wu, Georgia Institute of Technology. Deming’s major insight was to recognize that Shewhart’s idea [control charts, chance and assignable causes etc.], Dr. Wu also points out.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively. Related: Do You See What I See by Bill Bellows – W.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 26, 2017

Far too often companies promote employees into management positions and expect them to fulfill the obligations of their new position without helping prepare them to meet their new responsibilities. Managing a software development team is a completely different job from being a great software developer.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 19, 2019

Guest post by John Hunter , author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. An understanding of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge provides new lenses * to view the world. And that clear vision can help managers lead their organizations more effectively. Related: Do You See What I See by Bill Bellows – W.

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Curious Cat

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

On the matter of the importance of promoting better management practices worldwide I agree there is a huge amount of work to be done. And there is a huge vacuum of resources for managers looking for information on how to do better. It is much worse when you aim to influence a global audience. ASQ can help fill that need.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 14, 2017

Edwards Deming. She spent decades advocating Deming’s philosophy and helping people across the world with its application. Edwards Deming Institute. She co-authored Beyond Total Quality Management: Toward the Emerging Paradigm , and also contributed to Competing Globally Through Customer Value. Gipsie Ranney.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2015

Management changes, or our strategic plan is rebuffed, or people simply don’t perform the way we think they will. Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted Why Showing Appreciation To Your Team Makes A Difference. Follow The Deming Institute on Twitter at @DemingInstitute. Read this to change that.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Edwards Deming. It also begs another question, “If the Japanese so easily understood what Deming was saying, why is it still so difficult for people in western societies to understand?”. In today’s world “Understanding Relationship’s” might be an easier way for us westerners to understand what Deming was trying to tell us.

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sports provides visible examples of the futility of accurate performance appraisal. We have athletes who thousands of people devote a huge amount of time to dissecting their strengths and weaknesses and those evaluations are constantly shown to be wrong. Teams are constantly paying free agents tens of millions that completely flop.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

Edwards Deming. I don’t think I learned anything about Deming or his work as an undergraduate Industrial Engineering student from 1991 to 1995. I do remember my statistics professor saying something in class, in early 1994, right after Dr. Deming passed away. Why had I heard of Dr. Deming?

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. I also took advantage of an opportunity to meet Dr. Deming during his February 1990 lectures at Western Connecticut State University. We both view Toyota’s highly prized resource management results through a lens of interdependencies that is guided by W.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 19, 2017

Jim Benson’s presentation at our 2015 International Deming Research Seminar explored how to manage the workload better to improve results. Companies that understand this important idea have a big advantage over those that retain a theory x management system that they believe is needed to control people.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Edwards Deming Institute to make this historic program available to stream over the internet. Still the message in this broadcast on using management practices focused on delighting customers, respecting and involving employees while using data and statistical tools to continually improve is still very powerful today.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 12, 2016

Edwards Deming ( download ). … One of the things I encourage people who may say “I am not in that leadership role” is that if you use some of these ideas, and if you start to think systemically, early on in your career it will give you visibility, and a different “lens” through which to look at the organization.

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Curious Cat

OCTOBER 19, 2016

If you would limit yourself to paying attention to 5 thinkers to advance your understanding of managing organizations Ackoff should be one of them. Of course, many managers don’t even try to learn from 5 leading management thinkers to do their jobs better over their career.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Skip Steward, Chief Improvement Office (CIO) for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee is the latest guest on the Deming Podcast ( download the podcast ). ” I reflect on Dr. Deming quite often. as active participants in practicing the principles of Baptist Management System in their daily work.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

2013 American Statistical Association (ASA) Deming Lecture: Industrial Statistics – Research vs Practice by Vijay Nair, University of Michigan. Edwards Deming: The Story ofa Truly Remarkable Person , by Robert B. Stuart Hunter – Statistical Techniques Allow Management to do a Better Job. Austenfeld.

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

My career has been largely shaped by the pursuit of better ways to communicate. I grew up surrounded by those seeking to improve management (Bill Hunter, George Box, Brian Joiner, Peter Scholtes…). Wikis are a wonderful technology because of how easy they make the management of shared knowledge. will help a great deal.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 9, 2015

Doug Stilwell, Superintendent of the Urbandale Community School District discusses applying Deming management methods in education ( download the podcast ). As Dr. Deming said “The people are not the problem, it’s the system. Edwards Deming Institute 2014 conference. Edwards Deming Institute.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Also download 25 Things Managers and Leaders Should Never Do [PDF] - - - - - Check out the latest edition of “Carnival of HR” at John Hunter’s Curious Cat Management Improvement blog. with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL A very important topic brought forward. Don’t Kill It!

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors wasn’t my ideal workplace after having read Deming’s Out of the Crisis and learning a bit about Lean manufacturing in college. If possible, I wanted to work in something closer to the Deming environment. I was told that Dr. Deming had taught some workshops within GM, particularly the Powertrain division in the 1980s.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 19, 2017

To me this is a great example of extending Deming’s ideas with a great deal of useful content on how to effectively become more customer focused. Some are little (pass the time while waiting in line); some are big (find a more fulfilling career). Dr. Deming would talk about the importance of knowing what business you were in.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

Gothenberg, Sweden, is a long way to travel from Boston for a breakthrough idea in management — especially one that is more than 40 years old. Berwick’s talk spanned a pantheon of management thinkers to show the audience just how far we have come from Taylor to Deming in the 20th century. Laura Schneider for HBR.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Edwards Deming and encapsulated by Japanese car giant Toyota, whose quality circles, kaizen and takt time quickly spread throughout the manufacturing sector. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Such advice is plentiful and familiar: Make time for non-work activities, exercise to reduce stress, learn to say “no,” manage your time more efficiently. What I would offer, instead, are some ways to think about the problem, some guiding principles to keep in mind over the long haul of a career: Be realistic about work.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Fuji Xerox won the legendary Deming Prize for Total Quality Management even before Xerox, the parent company, got the Malcolm Baldridge Award for quality in the US. A Round Up of My Writing in March 2010 Other Links to this Post QAspire Blog - Quality, Management, Leadership & Life! Don’t Kill It!

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The seminar was on using Deming’s ideas to improve education. I wasn’t in the education field, but I believe what I wrote about earlier: we don’t need to restrict our management learning to our industry. I haven’t managed to get the capacity matrix idea adopted in organizations I worked in.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Edwards Deming. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career. He is a mentor to senior management. Additional Information Hank has written numerous articles and several books on a wide range of business and management topics. Hank has presented Think Tanks for five U.S. Presidents.

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Curious Cat

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Similar to helping other people grow their careers is the idea of helping other people to solve their problems. The result of a recently interview with me has been posted: How to Lead From Any Level In the Organization. Help people solve their problems. Again, this starts with a clear understanding of your sphere of influence. “It

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Curious Cat

APRIL 28, 2015

I took this photo after presenting a Deming 2 1/2 day seminar in Boston (at the Boston Fine Arts Museum – see more photos ). The organization really should focus on improving the management system so it isn’t such a barrier to improvement. So if your purpose is to improve management you need to address that.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2019

Dear Deming Community, Please join us in honoring the lives of these three men, who made countless contributions to the Deming community and society at large. A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. May they rest in peace.

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QAspire

AUGUST 3, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer The ‘Invisibles’ in Business Performance In world of quality and management, W. Edwards Deming is widely famous for “Deming’s 14 points” and “Seven Deadly Diseases”. One of these deadly disease according to Deming is “ Running a company on visible figures alone ”.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 4, 2019

Dear Deming Community, Please join us in honoring the lives of these three men, who made countless contributions to the Deming community and society at large. A chemical engineer by training, Dr. Latzko spent most of his career in quality control as a manager, consultant, and educator. May they rest in peace.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, “Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.” Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. William Matthies presents Instead, How About. ” John R.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

posted at Business Wisdom: Words to Manage By , saying, "Part of executive development is recognizing the development that has already occurred.". Turner presents Lewin and Historical Traces to Change Management posted at JohnRTurner_HPT_resource. William Matthies presents Instead, How About.

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Management Excellence

JUNE 28, 2016

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