Skip Prichard

APRIL 21, 2025

It touches marketing, legal, operations, sales, finance. reward curiosity and initiative Someone on your finance team builds a new AI model to forecast trends. I often ask: How could AI make this faster or better? That one question reframes the conversation. It touches everyone in every department. Innovation requires oxygen.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

2011 ASA Deming Lecture by Roger Hoerl, GE Global Research: The World Is Calling; Should We Answer? Roger starts by discussing some areas of Deming’s work that are not getting the focus they deserve. I also want to talk about Deming’s emphasis on the big picture, the big problems.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Or, would it be better to remove color as a potential market place differentiator and, instead, offer “Any color you like, as long as it’s white”? Is there a place for an aircraft manufacturer to offer their airline customers 108 shades of white paint, as did an aerospace company in the 1990s? Can the same be said for cycle time?

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

One of Dr. Deming’s 7 deadly diseases is: Emphasis on short-term profits: short-term thinking. At Berkshire, managers can focus on running their businesses: They are not subjected to meetings at headquarters nor financing worries nor Wall Street harassment. Market Incentives: encourage more patient capital.

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