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Deming on Management, Deming Philosophy, Dr. Deming
|Some New Principles of Management: Deming’s 1978 Speech in Tokyo
In this guest post, John Hunter pulls a few excerpts from Dr. Deming's 1978 speech in Tokyo and connects them to Deming's later work refining his ideas.
Appreciation for a System, Deming Philosophy, Deming Today, Healthcare, Healthcare, System of Profound Knowledge | 1 Comment
|Transforming Resident Assessment with Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge
In this guest post John Hunter reviews "Transforming Resident Assessment: An Analysis Using Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge" and discusses how evaluations often lead to bad data.
Appreciation for a System, Education, Psychology
|Are Best Efforts Ruining Education?
In this guest post, Taylor Lux views the American education system through the Deming lens, finding significant shortfalls in spite of educators' best efforts.
Appreciation for a System
|Russ Ackoff Lecture on the Age of Systems
This Russ Ackoff lecture, from the late 1970s, focuses on the age of systems. The nearly 2-hour lecture spans the development of science and scientific thinking while exploring topics such as philosophy, psychology, our ways of thinking, religion, history, physics, linguistics, and more.
Psychology, Psychology, respect for people, systems thinking
|How to Improve Employee Morale and Engagement
The way to improve morale and engagement is to improve the work. Eliminate things that drive workers crazy by making their work more difficult and by creating work that should never have to be done if the system were designed better. (Guest post by John Hunter.)
The W. Edwards Deming Institute
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data, Understanding Variation
|A Humorous Look at Variation
Thinking that variation in the data must be important is often a mistake, as this cartoon makes painfully clear. (Guest post by John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog.)
Appreciation for a System, Continual Improvement, Deming on Management
|Deming on Management: Innovation
This guest post by John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog, is part of our Deming on Management series that aims to provide resources to help those transforming their management system to one based on Deming’s management ideas.
Appreciation for a System, Deming Philosophy, Government | 2 Comments
|Our Only Hope
Guest post by Dr. Doug Stilwell, Assistant Professor Drake University: Now more than ever, I wish Dr. Deming was still with us, for even at age 64 I have so many burning questions I’d like to ask him, driven by the extreme frustration I feel about the “state of things” in our world.
Deming Community, Events and Outreach, Events and Outreach, Understanding Variation
|Field report: 5th Annual Bryce Canyon Society Deming Forum
On March 31st, Southern Utah University's School of Aviation hosted the 5th Annual Deming Forum, with the largest turnout ever.