Month: October 2015
By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Dr. Lisa Snyder, Superintendent of the Lakeville Public Schools shares how the work of Dr. Deming is influencing her as a superintendent and the rewards and challenges of adopting his philosophies in the latest Deming podcast. Lisa will be speaking at the First Annual Deming in Education Conference (in […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2015 Deming Prize winners. One company was awarded the Deming Grand Prize this year: National Engineering Industries Limited (India) 3 years after a company has received the Deming Prize they may apply to […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Join us 6-8 November 2015 for the First Annual Deming in Education Conference at the Cedarbrook Lodge in Seattle, Washington. Alfie Kohn and David Langford will be featured speakers at the conference. Also, conference attendees will have the opportunity to here from: Kevin Cahill, Executive Director, The W. Edwards […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Jim Benson’s presentation at The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2015 annual conference: There is No Instant Pudding, You have to Show Up to Disrupt. Everyone in the company needs to be R&D [research and development], even it is just a little bit… […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. I understand that some of the ideas Dr. Deming expressed challenge people’s beliefs and are difficult to accept. I can accept that. Certain exclamations I have more trouble accepting. One of the things I find annoying, in this way, is that reducing variation and […]
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By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. In the most recent Deming Institute podcast Ron Moen and Cliff Norman, of Associates in Process Improvement (API), discuss their paper (to be published in 2016), “Evolution of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge” and the “journey of learning” Dr. Deming and they have experienced. Ron […]
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