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Looking at Layoffs Through the Deming Lens

By Bill Bellows / November 16, 2022 / 1 Comment

In this guest post Bill Bellows looks at recent layoff announcements from a Deming point of view. Who is responsible for company failures? What is Ford doing differently? What happens when companies target “poor performers” and how easy it is to “do the wrong thing right.”

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Life Lessons from Russell Ackoff

By Bill Bellows / November 13, 2019 / 0 Comments

Advisory Council Member Bill Bellows shares an as-yet unheard anecdote on siloed decision making from visionary Russ Ackoff.

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Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

By Bill Bellows / September 23, 2019 / 0 Comments

Are you managing the parts of your company, or the way the parts interact with each other? We look to Toyota Motor Corporation for insight.

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Peter Senge on the Creation of a Post-Industrial Theory and Practice of Education

By Bill Bellows / March 26, 2019 / 0 Comments

Peter Senge reflects on efforts to transform education systems across the United States.

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Continuous vs. Continual Improvement: An Ongoing Conversation with Ed Baker

By Bill Bellows / January 28, 2019 / 0 Comments

Bill Bellows highlights ongoing conversations with Ed Baker, author of The Symphony of Profound Knowledge (created in partnership with Aileron.org).

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Impact of Process Tampering on Variation (Experiment)

By Bill Bellows / January 14, 2019 / 0 Comments

What do engineering students learn about variation when they launch a catapult with three different sets of instructions?

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What is a system?

By Bill Bellows / January 10, 2019 / 0 Comments

“Humans create systems all the time…How well any of these systems function, how effective and efficient they are, often comes down to how well the parts cooperate to support the aim.”

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A Brief History of Quality, Part 1 – “Time has no divisions to mark its passage…”

By Bill Bellows / January 1, 2019 / 0 Comments

Bill Bellows looks at “step changes” and how they relate to quality.

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Dr. Deming’s work lauded by world famous philosopher, Alasdair MacIntyre

By Bill Bellows / December 27, 2018 / 0 Comments

One of the most pre-eminent philosophers in the world, Alasdair MacIntyre cites Deming at length in his 2016 book, Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity.

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Break the Cycle

By Bill Bellows / December 21, 2018 / 0 Comments

Bill Bellows discusses using the Deming approach to turn things around – whether prompted by a crisis or an essential effort in an organization’s continued success.

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