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Our Aim, Vision and Values

Deming Institute

Edwards Deming Institute® is to foster an understanding of The Deming System of Profound Knowledge® to advance commerce, prosperity and peace. At the Deming Institute, we honor the legacy of Dr. Deming by bringing his teachings to life today and for the future. Edwards Deming. Edwards Deming Institute®.

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What Role Does/Should The Deming System of Profound Knowledge Play in the World of “Big Data”?

Deming Institute

Each time technology advances to allow for collection, storage, and analysis of more data, we have the opportunity to expand the boundaries of the systems that we can analyze and improve. As Dr. Deming would say, “ Without a theory there is no learning.” What is our theory? Theory poses questions that guide analysis.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

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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