Education

Peter Senge on the Creation of a Post-Industrial Theory and Practice of Education

By Bill Bellows / March 26, 2019 / 0 Comments

Peter Senge reflects on efforts to transform education systems across the United States.

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Impact of Process Tampering on Variation (Experiment)

By Bill Bellows / January 14, 2019 / 0 Comments

What do engineering students learn about variation when they launch a catapult with three different sets of instructions?

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Restoring Joy and Meaning to Learning

By Matthew Moss / October 15, 2018 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability David Langford has taken his experience with applying Deming’s ideas to education to his position as the Superintendent of Ingenium schools in Los Angeles, California. The focus of Ingenium is “restoring joy and meaning to learning.” David talks about how Ingenium schools are […]

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Restaurant Week (An elementary look at quality culture fundamentals)

By Guest Post / August 30, 2018 / 0 Comments

Industry can help provide the solution for our educational problems. But ultimately, education will provide the solution for our industry problems.

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The Neuroscience of Deming by JW Wilson

By Matthew Moss / July 23, 2018 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows JW Wilson’s presentation, The Neuroscience of Deming, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. In a previous post I wrote about this presentation which included a couple clips from the presentation. Now we have the full presentation on our YouTube channel: […]

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When Deming Goes to School

By John Hunter / April 2, 2018 / 0 Comments

David Langford explains how “When Deming Goes to School, Learning Takes a Front Seat” at The Deming Institute’s 2012 annual conference,

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Empowering Students to Lead Change by Christine Simpson and Sarah Ambrus

By John Hunter / March 12, 2018 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. The video shows the presentation by Christine Simpson and Sarah Ambrus at the 2015 Deming research seminar: Empowering Students to Lead Change. They gave a similar, and a bit longer, presentation at the 2015 Deming in Education conference on Student Led Change. Quoting a student: […]

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Transformation of the Individual and the Organization

By John Hunter / December 18, 2017 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. This webcast shows David Langford’s presentation, When Grading Bites the Dust, at the 2012 Annual Deming Conference. A previous post (Change has to Start from the Top) includes a clip from another talk he gave at the 2012 conference and it is a valuable companion to the […]

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Learning to Discern – Quality & Quantity

By Bill Bellows / December 15, 2017 / 0 Comments

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute “The basic problem anywhere is quality.   What is quality?   A product or a service possesses quality if it helps somebody and enjoys a good and sustainable market.” W. Edwards Deming When our daughter, Allison, was about 3 years old, she joined me for a quick ride to the […]

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Instant Karma! and Instant Pudding!

By Bill Bellows / November 27, 2017 / 0 Comments

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute The first step is transformation of the individual.  The individual, transformed, will perceive new meaning to his life, to events, to numbers, to interactions between people. W. Edwards Deming In January 1970, John Lennon returned to the UK from a holiday in Denmark, inspired by a series […]

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