Year: 2015
By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The most popular post on our blog this year: Myth: If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It (2015) What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban (2013) 2014 Deming Prize Awardees (2014) Dr. Deming Called for the Elimination of […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The Deming Institute has arranged to have a Chinese language version of W. Edwards Deming’s classic, Out of the Crisis, published. You may order the book online. An excerpt from the forward (by Kevin Cahill and Kelly Allan) to this new Chinese edition of […]
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By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. “Change the rule and you will get a new number.” Attributed to W. Edwards Deming. The direct quote is from The New Economics. “If you change the rule for counting people, you come up with a new number.” Dr. Deming emphasized the importance of understanding what […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Lynda Finn, President of Statistical Insight and facilitator for The Deming Institute. Download the podcast with Linda: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Data Points. This podcast is the first episode of our “Knowledge In Variation Series.” Lynda discusses the importance of moving from […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. We recently announced the availability of the 1980 NBC News special report, “If Japan Can, Why Can’t We,” that introduced Dr. Deming to the USA business community. Many people have enjoyed viewing that program. Here we collect some of the reactions that have been posted online. If Japan Can, […]
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Give by 28 December 2015 to double your gift! Joy in learning comes not so much from what is learned, but from learning. Joy on the job comes not so much from the result…but from contribution to optimization of the system in which everybody wins. – W. Edwards Deming Do you remember the joy of […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Ron Moen’s presentation at The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2014 conference – Deming’s Stage 0: By What Method? Ron talks about W. Edwards Deming teaching a 2 week course on consumer research in Japan in 1951: that course included a section titled “the art of questioning and interviewing.” Dr. […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Deming Institute Workshop – Leading With A Systems View 9 to 11 February 2016 Tipp City, Ohio, USA “I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Test your knowledge of Out of the Crisis and The New Economics with crossword puzzles created by Joyce Orsini. Here is the puzzle for chapter 1 of The New Economics: See puzzles for every chapter of both books (and also chapter 1 of Sample Design in Business Research) on […]
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By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. It is very hard for us today to remember (or learn if we are too young) what the situation was like in 1980 (see the bottom of the post for some data on the economy at that time). Specifically two areas were very different back […]
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