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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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… […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. I understand that some of the ideas Dr. Deming expressed challenge people’s beliefs and are difficult to accept. I can accept that. Certain exclamations I have more trouble accepting. One of the things I find annoying, in this way, is that reducing variation and […]

By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. In the most recent Deming Institute podcast Ron Moen and Cliff Norman, of Associates in Process Improvement (API), discuss their paper (to be published in 2016), “Evolution of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge” and the “journey of learning” Dr. Deming and they have experienced. Ron […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). The French Deming Association has a mission to implement the management theory designed by Deming. They offer The New Economics and Out of the Crisis in French as well as other related books. Their web site also offers several interesting papers including: […]

By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Theory of knowledge, how we know what we know, is an area that is difficult for most people to understand and see the value of. But it is very powerful and impacts and interacts with all the other aspects of the Deming management system (psychology, […]

The purpose of creating constancy of purpose is to maximize the benefits to the organization of the other facets of Deming's management system. It is not an end, it is the means to an end.