By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). We used to publish a newsletter. In the Fall 2006 Deming Interaction we published an excerpt from an article by Dr. Deming: Some Notes on Management in a Hospital [the link that we broke has been removed] (published in 1990 in the […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Every year the American Statistical Association (ASA) selects an honoree to present a Deming Lecture at their annual conference. The 2009 ASA Deming Lecture by J. Stuart Hunter, Princeton University: the first part of the lecture (20 minutes) is a historical look at W. Edwards Deming’s career and then […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Note: The simulation referenced below is no longer available. I ran across this simulation via a post on an e-learning website. The community has challenges in creating short simulations on various concepts and one of the challenges focused on the red bead experiment: the […]

By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. The Philadelphia Area Council for Excellence organized a tour to visit businesses Japan in 1985 and learn from them. 38 people participated in the trip including Peter Scholtes; William Hunter (my father); Brian and Laurel Joiner; Myron Tribus; and David and Carole Schwinn (David and […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. 2016 Deming Institute Annual Conference September 16 – 18, 2016 Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan Find more information and the registration form. This webcast is a clip from Ian Bradbury’s presentation at a previous annual conference. Facilitators Eric Budd, Improvement Coordinator at Peaker Services Dennis Sergent, President & […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). One of the reasons quotes by W. Edwards Deming are so popular is that he had an incredible understanding of the practice of management. Another reason they are popular is he had a sense of humor that was captured well in several […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Presentation by JW Wilson at our 2015 Deming in Education conference: Why Some Things in Education Work….and Others Don’t: There is a mismatch between what science knows and what education does. This is true in education and management. We are not very effective at adjusting existing practices based on […]

Guest post by Bill Bellows (originally written as a comment about the question of how Dr. Deming viewed Six Sigma Quality). While Dr. Deming was known for his appreciation of continuous improvement, he was also know for encouraging us to think of variation and improvement from a systems perspective. As such, I do not believe […]

Travis Timmons, owner of Fitness Matters, describes the company's Deming Transformation that took them from chaos to stability - and unprecedented success.

An in-depth discussion of the Point 4 in Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points for Management.