Deming Legacy

If Japan Can, Why Cant We? – 1980 NBC Special Report

By John Hunter / November 19, 2015 / 2 Comments

By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. It is very hard for us today to remember (or learn if we are too young) what the situation was like in 1980 (see the bottom of the post for some data on the economy at that time). Specifically two areas were very different back […]

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Ron Moen and Cliff Norman Discuss the Evolution of Deming’s Management Ideas

By John Hunter / October 1, 2015 / 0 Comments

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 […]

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Lessons From the Red Bead Experiment with Dr. Deming

By John Hunter / March 10, 2014 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. The lessons that can be illustrated using the Red Bead experiment are too many to include in this post. But we can touch on a few of the ideas. The value of the Red Bead Experiment is to provide focus to your thinking. It is hard to believe what […]

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The Red Bead Experiment with Dr. W. Edwards Deming

By John Hunter / February 25, 2014 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The Red Bead Experiment is an activity Dr. Deming included in his 4 day seminars. The webcast shows excerpts of Dr. Deming carry out the Red Bead Experiment with participants from the audience. Dr. Deming used the Red Bead Experiment to clearly and dramatically […]

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