By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Here is a long document looking at Deming’s ideas, written by Raphael Vitalo – Deming Revisited: The Real Quality Model for Commerce. The document explores Dr. Deming’s ideas in depth and provides the authors viewpoint. In my opinion, it is an interesting read. I would disagree with some statements […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). In this post I discuss another wonderful paper by Dr. Deming. The W. Edwards Deming Institute makes this paper, and many more, available on our website. As you would expect from a non-profit focused on promoting the application of his ideas these […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Kevin Cahill’s welcome message to 2015 Deming In Education Conference. Kevin is the Director the The W. Edwards Deming Institute. Kevin talks about the need to break the bounds of common sense practices. Without change we continue to get the results we have always achieved. To improve we need […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Appreciation for a system is one of the four components of Deming’s management system. In this context, the most common item to think of is Deming’s diagram of an organization as a system. That is a powerful diagram. When thinking of appreciation for a […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). The video above shows Don Berwick’s presentation at the IHI/BMJ International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care, 13 April 2016. He starts the presentation with the Red Bead Game (see related posts on our blog: Lessons From the Red Bead […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). In this Deming Institute podcast (download the podcast) Kevin Cahill and David Langford share how The Deming in Education Initiative was conceived, the impact of the Deming Philosophy on education, and where the Initiative is going in the future. The initiative first […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. This is a very interesting interview with W. Edwards Deming by Bill Scherkenbach (recording in February 1984, during this time Bill Scherkenbach worked at Ford and Deming was consulting with Ford). The interview provides many insightful quotes from Deming and shows his concern for […]

Guest post by Kim Melton When many of the ads on the final round of the Masters Golf Tournament are about using data to make decisions, you know that data has become big business! In ads IBM touched on the use of data in transportation, healthcare, manufacturing, crime, love, education, farming, pollution, weather, energy, and […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. We have several events scheduled throughout 2016 for those interested in applying Dr. Deming’s ideas today. Deming Management Method for Owners and Executives May 23-25, 2016 in Hauppauge, New York 2 1/2 day seminar with Kelly Allan and Lynda Finn. This seminar is aimed at those interested in implementing […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Point 10 on W. Edwards Deming’s list of 14 Points for western management: Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the […]