THE DEMING INSTITUTE BLOG
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Using Dr. Deming’s Ideas at Baptist Memorial Health Care
By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Skip Steward, Chief Improvement Office (CIO) for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee is the latest guest on the Deming Podcast (download the podcast). Dr. Deming’s thinking continues to influence me, not only in things like PDSA thinking, but also […]
| Deming Philosophy, Psychology, Theory of Knowledge
Countering Confirmation Bias
By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin After you decide that Deming’s ideas seem valuable you must act to adopt new methods in order to benefit from what you have learned. This takes many […]
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Overview and Status of The W. Edwards Deming Institute
By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Kevin Cahill, Executive Director of The W. Edwards Deming Institute provided an overview and status of the Institute at our last annual conference. Kevin mentioned our updated web site, our presence on various social media sites and the quote web site we created last […]
| Appreciation for a System, Deming Philosophy, Deming Today, Psychology
Using Deming’s Ideas – When Your Organization Doesn’t
You see things through the Deming Lens - but your boss/co-workers/team/board do not. What can you do?
| Deming Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge
The Influence of C. I. Lewis on Walter Shewhart and W. Edwards Deming
By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). W. Edwards Deming had a large and varied collection of influences. One of the most difficult for people to grasp is C.I. Lewis. The ideas Dr. Deming drew from the work of C.I. Lewis provide one of the ways his ideas on […]
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Ravi Roy on Teaching Deming’s Ideas at Southern Utah University
In this Deming Institute podcast, Deming Fellow Ravi Roy discusses teaching Deming's ideas at Southern Utah University.
| Appreciation for a System, Deming Philosophy, process thinking, Understanding Variation
Using Checklists to Reduce Process Variation and Improve Results
By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande is a wonderful book about how to create systems that work. At the core the Checklist Manifesto is about determining the critical process conditions and creating a system to assure that the those process items are properly handled. […]
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Updated W. Edwards Deming Institute Web Site
By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. We have launched an updated web site for The W. Edwards Deming Institute. The new site offers much better usability when using a smart phone and has an updated design. We have added several new features to the site to aid those seeking to apply Deming’s ideas. I expect […]
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Case Study: Adopting a Deming Management System in a Service Company
By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Total Quality Management in Logistics: a case study from the trucking industry by Harry Lehman, Jr. (a thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School). The thesis aims to study the practical aspects of implementing a W. Edwards Deming-based quality program within a particular trucking company, […]
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Transforming the Management System of an Organization
By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. In response to our request asking what topics readers would like to see addressed on our blog, Dan Bracewell said: I’d like to see some posts about how to implement change in an organization. How does one get an organization to start looking at itself as a system? How […]