John Hunter
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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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Photos of the First Deming in Education Conference held this month in Seattle.
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). I attended a 4 day seminar by David Langford about 15 years ago. The seminar was on using Deming’s ideas to improve education. I wasn’t in the education field, but I believe what I wrote about earlier: we don’t need to restrict […]
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By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Dr. Donald Wheeler and Dr. Henry Neave wrote an interesting article on the use of control charts (also known as process behavior charts) in Quality Digest recently: Shewhart and the Probability Approach Shewhart’s use of three-sigma limits, as opposed to any other multiple of sigma, did not stem from […]
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By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Paula Marshall, CEO of The Bama Companies, tells us about her experiences with Dr. Deming and his influence on the family business in her presentation at out 2015 annual conference. Also see Paula’s presentation at the 2014 Deming Conference Webcast. Speaking of […]
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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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