The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

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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Deming Institute

JANUARY 25, 2016

The Deming Management Method by Mary Walton was a book that served to introduce many to the ideas of W. Edwards Deming. Dr. Deming wrote an introduction to the book, including these words: In the decade after the War [the Second World War], the rest of the world was devastated. The book was published in 1988.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We learned the quality lessons of Edward Deming, Joseph Juran, and Phil Crosby as well as the lean thinking lessons of James Womack. We all went to school on how the Japanese transformed a rotten “made in Japan” reputation synonymous with junk into one that represented the pinnacle of zero defects products.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Peter Scholtes shared his thoughts on Leading Quality: Some Practical Approaches to the Managers New Job at the 1992 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. Everything I’ve learned about quality, just about everything maybe 95% of what I know about quality, is either from Dr. Deming or Dr. Kano or their students.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 17, 2019

We are so proud of this community, which is doing the important work of spreading the Deming teachings. Our revenue has grown by 60%… and an exciting result of the Deming approach is we were able to deliver that growth with significantly less time from our staff. Happy Holidays! – Stacy Sheldon, Aileron. The Partnership.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

SMED your SME journey applying Deming principles – guest post by Luciana Paulise. Edwards Deming Institute [The Institute makes 5 travel grants available each year to study the Deming Collection at the Library of Congress. I was also invited to attend to the Deming Institute Annual Fall conference in Los Angeles.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

In 2014 I presented a paper at the 20th Annual International Deming Research Seminar on the topic of “ Understanding and Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare.” that is taking on the transformation of healthcare management. My goal was to find out why this body of knowledge seemed to be absent.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 14, 2012

Starting in the late eighties and eventually morphing into Lean/Six Sigma, the quality movement completely revolutionized management thinking throughout much of the western world. “Sloganeering” and Internal Marketing. A great many organizations have fallen into internal marketing traps. line performers to improve.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Readers of this blog are aware of the problems created by using quotas: Achieved the goal by not the aim (2013) – The Futility of a Numerical Goal (2014) , Distorting the System, Distorting the Data or Improving the System (2013) , Dr. Deming on the problems with targets or goals.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market. Edwards Deming. Dr. Deming explained quality with an appreciation of variation and, ultimately, use. asking] if they would be fired if the company lost in their pursuit of the Deming Prize. “If Post by Bill Bellows.

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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

OCTOBER 3, 2016

That criticism of the weak explanations provided for why such huge rewards are deserved is in line with what Deming taught. Edwards Deming’s shared. Edwards Deming was addressing the notion of “merit pay” in the context of workers in the system (not executives specifically). Edwards Deming.

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Deming Institute

MAY 5, 2016

In this post I discuss another wonderful paper by Dr. Deming. Edwards Deming Institute makes this paper, and many more, available on our website. Edwards Deming, 1954: For all four groups of people [management, statistical administration, research, front-line workers], the statistical method is more than an array of techniques.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 16, 2022

Edwards Deming famously remarked that “in God we trust, but everyone else should bring data.” More research is needed to understand the organizational or market frictions that are causing this apparent misalignment, one that is proving to be quite costly in the firms we observe.” .

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 20, 2018

Edwards Deming (1952). In the new way, management introduces, through consumer research, a 4th step, and runs through the 4 steps is a cycle , over and over. Put it on the market. Test it in service; through market research, find out what the user thinks of it, and why the non-user has not bought it. Edward Deming.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 30, 2012

Apart from the high costs and squandered opportunity, a failed reorganization can leave an enterprise even worse off than it was before , with lost productivity, a weakened market position, and a disengaged workforce, among other impacts.” Effectively engaging middle managers and key support staff brings that forward.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Edwards Deming. He is a mentor to senior management. These qualities make it invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. 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 30, 2015

Edwards Deming Institute blog, Hallmark Building Supplies: Applying Deming as a Business Strategy : [Hallmark Building Supplies] uses the purpose statement to make decisions on a regular basis. A phrase about the importance of customers matters only to the extent the company delivers customer delight. From a post I wrote on The W.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

Three Levels of Management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. As a starting place we can look at three general levels or grades of management. Beginner’s Management [Newbie or Management 1.0]. Fundamentals of being a manager : They ask “what needs to be done?”.

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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. Thomas Johnson and Anders Broms, the authors provide many good thoughts on the problems of accounting measures and management. Market Incentives: encourage more patient capital. In Profit Beyond Measure by H.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. “A A product or service possesses quality if it helps someone and enjoys a sustainable market.”. Edwards Deming . There is not a day I don’t think about what Dr. Deming meant to us. Deming is the core of our management.”. Phillip Crosby.

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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

MARCH 9, 2017

Kentaro Toyama ‘s presentation at the 2016 Annual Deming Institute Conference – Geek Heresy: Technology’s Law of Amplification. This idea is very familiar to those of us using Dr. Deming’s ideas. This result is very similar to what happens if you don’t design a management system well.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2017

This webcast shows Louie Paynter’s presentation, Hallmark Building Supplies ’ Approach to Applying Quality as a Business Strategy, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. It is often useful to learn about the journey of transformation of an organization to a new management system. We use it to make decisions on a regular basis.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2018

Vincent Barabba presented the 2016 ASA Deming Lecture: Profound Knowledge from a Knowledge Use Perspective. Vincent Barabba led the US Census Bureau, founded Market Insight Corporation and authored The Decision Loom: A design or interactive decision-making in organizations (among other books). Edwards Deming – A Kaizen Statistician.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Guest post by Luciana Paulise, see part 1 of these thoughts: Applying Deming Principles at Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. 14 Deming principles. Deming System of Profound knowledge. 14) Create a structure in top management that will push every day on the above 13 points. Marketing mix. How to apply the model.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan—but they don’t know what to copy! Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” Edwards Deming, The New Economics. People copy examples and then they wonder what is the trouble.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

Edwards Deming’s list of 14 points for western management : Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. If so, you should examine your management system. It is a bad sign and points to serious management problems. Point 10 on W.

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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Customer integration is required in the customer focused continual improvement framework I have discussed on this blog and in my book: Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Edwards Deming, so appreciating the importance of a systemic view is to be expected. See more photos by John Hunter.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

This webcast shows Tom Rudmik’s presentation, Thriving in the World of Massive Change, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. The existing assembly-line approach to education exists because it’s the only way we knew how to manage large groups of students back in the early 1900s. Guest post by John Hunter.

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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. Edwards Deming’s discussion on truly understanding the needs of customers and also Russell Ackoff’s ideas on seeking solutions by looking at the larger containing system.

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Deming Institute

JULY 31, 2017

At the time, I was a member of the company’s Continuous Improvement Team, a later version of a Total Quality Management Office. Related: Video – The Deming Management Method. On a summer weekend in 1997, I visited my office for a short time before heading home after a few errands near work.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 10, 2017

Aligning what is delivered with what is marketed is also important and something Southwest does well. Other airlines market as if they will provide what Singapore Airlines does and provides a miserable experience instead. His market is to provide great service to those customers willing to pay.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Whether it was branded the Deming Method or Six Sigma or a host of other models, ‘continuous improvement processes’ found their way into organizations large and small and have made a major contribution to improving quality worldwide. Keep your company fighter-pilot agile in any turbulent or changing market.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 9, 2017

While neither group may have heard of Alfred Politz , a pioneer in the field of market research, they would have surely appreciated his perspective on competition, borrowed by Dr. Deming for use on the opening page of The New Economics. “Nothing can do you so much harm,” Politz fancied, “as a lousy competitor.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 23, 2016

Certainly smart phones are a huge and rapidly growing market. But it is less understandable when companies that are thought of as technology savvy are as blinded by their history (can’t see out of the app-mindset).

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 28, 2017

With our internships coming to an end, we invited our department manager to join us. Unlike the technical questions we answered all summer long, our manager took the opportunity to challenge us with a down-to-earth business question. Instead of the queries W.

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