By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The Lean Enterprise Institute has published webcasts of discussions with James Womack, Dan Jones and John Shook exploring reflections on 25 years of lean which I think are quite good. This excerpt looks at learning from other communities of interest and ideas used by […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. This webcast continues Ian Bradbury’s Deming 101 presentation looking at the Theory of Knowledge and the PDSA Learning Cycle. Commenting on Deming’s presentation of the PDSA (plan-do-study-act) cycle in 1951 Ian says It is articulated as a learning cycle. A learning cycle in which you are trying to build […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. This is the first webcast excerpt from the 2013 Annual conference of The W. Edwards Deming Institute we have posted. This is from Ian Bradbury’s presentation: Deming 101. This is a system [of management] and within each of these areas there are powerful ideas […]

By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. There are few managers today that would say their organization doesn’t focus on customers. It is fairly accepted that in order to proposer a business needs to convince customers to pay. But I find most organizations I interact with don’t do a decent job of […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. What is a leader? As I use the term here, the job of a leader is to accomplish transformation of his organization. He possesses knowledge; he himself has been transformed. He has personality and persuasive power. How may he accomplish transformation? First he has […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Andrew McKeon spoke at the annual Deming Institute conference this year on: Disruptive Sustainability and Deming. Quality Digest interviewed Andrew in webcast above. Andrew uses the 4 elements of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge to look at climate change in the webcast and also […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Aerojet-Rocketdyne has been running group discussions of Dr. Deming’s book by phone for years. Beginning Monday, 4 November, 2013, and continuing from 3 – 5 pm Pacific time on the dates listed below, via phone we will be discussing The New Economics by W. Edwards Deming. The Aerojet-Rocketdyne course […]

Guest post by Mike Stoecklein [broken link removed] I was at Purdue University this past weekend for what I would call a “homecoming”. I did not attend this university, but I still think of this as a homecoming. The W. Edwards Deming Institute hosts an annual conference at universities around the United States. This year […]

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2013 Deming Prize winners. The companies awarded the Deming Prize this year are: Komatsu Shantui Construction Machinery (China) – Japanese parent company received the 1964 Deming prize. Advics (Japan) Sanden Corporation, Retail Systems […]

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Improvement of Quality and Productivity, to be successful in any company, must be a learning process, year by year, top management leading the whole company. W. Edwards Deming page 139, Out of the Crisis Understanding the importance of learning is often one sign of the maturity of the improvement […]