Deming Institute

JULY 8, 2019

Ever wish you could access the Deming teachings any time, anywhere? The Deming Institute recently announced the development of Deming Online – a community learning center that blends videos, e-learning courses, and virtual coaching. The world needs the Deming Philosophy more than ever. That time is drawing near!

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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. If technology is going to improve the lives of the world’s poorest, it must be grounded in a deep understanding of human behavior and an appreciation for cultural differences.”.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 8, 2024

Edwards Deming famously remarked that while we may trust in god, everyone else should bring data. The way organizations work is changing because of technology, and this is causing the rise of “digital trace data.” It’s a mindset that has underlined the recent desire to have data underpin decision-making.

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Deming Institute

MAY 26, 2016

2016 Deming Institute Annual Conference. Lean coffee session at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. Edwards Deming Institute®. Kentaro Toyama, Associate Professor, University of Michigan – School of Information and Author of ”Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology”. Michigan State University.

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Deming Institute

JULY 6, 2015

Edwards Deming Institute 2014 annual conference was Deming 101 (giving an introduction to Dr. Deming’s ideas). One of the cool things about Deming is you can start applying certain things tomorrow. But the other cool thing is that even after 30 years of studying Deming there is still more stuff to learn.

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QAspire

MAY 20, 2018

During 2001 dot com bubble, one of my friends, a competent software developer, was laid off because of lack of business in the technology he worked in. He was smart enough to understand that the company needed people in a new project that was to be developed on a totally different technology. Related Posts at QAspire.

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Curious Cat

AUGUST 4, 2015

Manu Vora kicked the discussion off with his post on The Gift of Knowledge Transfer Through Technology. As I moved into high school Dad was doing much more direct management consulting (it was also a combination of statistics, engineering and management but the emphasis shifted over time) based on Deming’s ideas.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Scott first encountered Deming’s ideas while an engineer at Proctor & Gamble in 1986. Deming training was rolled out to us. He taught the Deming principles to his new company and they were readily embraced. Scott Dalgleish. Scott Dalgleish is the CEO at Phase IV Engineering. I thought it was a really wonderful thing.

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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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Guest post by Bill Bellows, Member of The Deming Institute’s Advisory Council. Edwards Deming to several dozen executives in Japan in 1950. Years later, in 2005, Dr. Shoichiro Toyoda, Chairman and former President (1982-1999) of Toyota, accepted the American Society for Quality’s Deming Medal. and Japan.

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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.” Dr. Deming is cited several times in the book, and the reader will find evidence of Dr. Deming’s thinking throughout the 180 pages of the book.

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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.” The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. Despite this huge outlay, research from Rotman highlights the profoundly mixed returns seen on that investment.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

This webcast shows Bob Browne ’s presentation, Profound Knowledge of the Real Thing, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. Among other things, this presentation is a good option for those seeking an example that provides historical business results of an organization practicing Deming management methods.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 4, 2017

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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Deming Institute

AUGUST 7, 2017

Jet-Hot ‘s story provides an example of applying Deming’s work to transform a real enterprise. They used Deming’s ideas to turn around a company being crushed in the marketplace to one delighting their customers. Jet-Hot integrates Deming’s system view with their own management or operating system.

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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. Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Focus 70% of your resources in improving existing technology (i.e. Dr. Deming on Joy of Work, Innovation and Leadership. Great cites example of Google to outline the 70/20/10 rule which I so agree with. He says, The premise of the rule is simple. search), 20% toward adjacent markets (i.e. Gmail, Google Drive, etc.) self-driving cars).

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 10, 2017

Enter technological ease – management implements the swipe in /swipe out approach to restroom breaks – thus confirming productivity is in the toilet. Edwards Deming and his System of Profound Knowledge, they would know it’s they , not their workers, who are responsible for improving productivity.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

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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Deming Institute

JANUARY 14, 2019

Guest post by Mustafa Shraim , ASQ Fellow and Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering Technology and Management, Ohio University. Variation is life or life is variation ” is how Dr. Deming described the extent of what we observe in our personal and work outcomes. The first mistake is called tampering.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

I was happy to see John Hunter share the article on the Deming Institute blog last year , along with some context. The SHS journal article starts with a brief introduction, not in the original document, by Dr. Deming that summarizes the key points, all of which are still relevant today. The lesson learned? Many hands go up.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Edwards Deming. Thinking beyond the design and development of the next iProduct , profits allow for improvements to current products, not to mention needed technology upgrades, employee development, and dividends for shareholders. Post by Bill Bellows. There is little evidence that we give a hoot about profit.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This webcast shows Bjarne Wig’s presentation, The Transformation of Learning, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. And the third is, apply systems leadership, Deming philosophy of leadership. Guest post by John Hunter. See Bjarne’s research paper that forms the basis of the talk: The Transformation of Learning at the Work Place.

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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. In a superjob, technology has not only changed the nature of the skills the job requires but has changed the nature of the work and the job itself.” Learning fast and slow.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 1, 2015

Louis Altazan, President of AGCO Automotive Corporation discusses the success AGCO has had applying Deming’s management system to their service organization (car repair). This [Deming’s ideas] sort of went to the same exact type of philosophy. He mentions he was surprised when Dr. Deming answered his own phone.

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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. In a future of rapid change in many significant areas systems must be able to cope with rapid change (in the marketplace, in technology, in the workforce, in the economy at large…).

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Edwards Deming in The Deming of America. Edwards Deming in “If Japan Can…Why Can’t We?” See a classic discussion with Dr. Ackoff and Dr. Deming on the futility of trying to put together best parts/processes without an appreciation for the system. Edwards Deming, The New Economics.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice. Edwards Deming cautioned against clinging to examples , and for good reason. But many people like to learn about how others have applied Deming’s ideas.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 26, 2015

Although the jury is still out about robots stealing jobs , the pace at which AI and deep learning technologies have been advancing isn’t ebbing concerns over a future of disappearing work. He builds largely upon the work of MIT economist David Autor, who’s studied the effects of technological change on the U.S.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Much of my work focuses on involving people in activities and decisions about their work and how it will change as the technology they use changes. Many years after the curtain came down on my Camelot project, I was asked to lead the process / organization side of a large technology project. How did I figure this out?

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Deming Institute

MAY 18, 2015

Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management. Dr. Deming explained that the organization was a system that included the suppliers and customers. A supplier will show its best new technology to the automaker that treats them best. Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Your reference to gaps in the lateral movement of work reminded be of Frank Voehl’s post on the Deming Learning Network - “Managing the White Space&#. I sometimes wonder about an organization with a loose and nimble structure with a solid work-flow and technologies that enable such an efficient work-flow. Vamsi´s last blog.

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Curious Cat

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

I would look at how to use technology to connect members to knowledge (and knowledgable experts) they need. There is also some good content from organizations like ASQ, the Lean Enterprise Institute and The Deming Institute (including many of Dr. Deming’s published papers ).

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The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

The personal computer revolution was started by putting together existing technologies in a way never done before. They could see from a 10,000 foot elevation how seemingly unrelated technology trends intersected, eventually disrupting the computer industry in a completely new direction. Future Oriented.

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Curious Cat

APRIL 23, 2016

Now there are some times when using technology to provide good service just isn’t worth the effort. Often though businesses just are stuck in their fax-thinking or physical-store-thinking or app-thinking and fail to use a technology that would provide great benefit to their users.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Edwards Deming, a renowned systems specialist, observed: “Ninety-four percent of problems are caused by the system — 6 percent by the workers.” The importance of technology ownership is significant. The word “system,” especially in connection with innovation, creates a vision of being controlled, constrained and restricted.

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