Deming Today

Adaptation of the 14 Points to Medical Service

By John Hunter / June 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Dr. Deming’s 14 points for management have been put into various specific contexts by people over the years. Dr. Paul Batalden and Dr. Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context. Dr. Deming included their […]

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Deming Podcast with Dr. Bret Champion, Superintendent of the Leander Independent School District

By John Hunter / May 11, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Dr. Bret Champion, Superintendent of the Leander Independent School District (ISD) in Texas joins us for the latest Deming Institute Podcast (download the podcast). Bret discusses Leander ISD’s efforts from the perspective of his 22 year journey as a teacher through his current role. In describing the Leander Way […]

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Discovering Deming: Cultural Evolution at Pluralsight

By John Hunter / May 5, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Keith Sparkjoy – Discovering Deming: Cultural Evolution at Pluralsight from The W. Edwards Deming Institute 2014 Annual Conference. Enjoy Keith Sparkjoy’s presentation at the 2014 W. Edwards Deming Institute conference – Discovering Deming: Cultural Evolution at Pluralsight using the webcast above. Once you understand […]

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Improving Student Achievement at the Urbandale Community School District

By John Hunter / April 9, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Dr. Doug Stilwell, Superintendent of the Urbandale Community School District discusses applying Deming management methods in education (download the podcast). As Dr. Deming said “The people are not the problem, it’s the system. Doug talks about how many initiatives (from the state legislature and […]

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Transforming the Organization – Deming Podcast with David Langford

By John Hunter / March 26, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. This is the 3rd Deming Institute podcast with David Langford: CEO and Founder of Langford International and Deming Institute Advisory Board member. Download the podcast. David begins by talking about why it is best to focus where you actually can have influence. It doesn’t do much good to worry […]

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Deming in Education: Education as a System

By John Hunter / February 16, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. In this podcast (download) David Langford becomes the first repeat guest. David is the CEO and founder of Langford International and a Deming Institute Advisory Board member. David continues discussing his thoughts on using Deming’s ideas to improve education. By looking at education as a system and examining what […]

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Quality Comes to City Hall

By John Hunter / January 26, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Out of the Crisis included a couple pages (245-7) that Dr. Deming asked my father to write on the efforts to apply Deming’s management ideas at the City of Madison (the first effort to do so in the public sector as far as I know). […]

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Monta Akin on The 20 Year Deming Journey at the Leander Independent School District

By John Hunter / January 23, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Monta Akin, Assistant Superintendent for Leander Independent School District in Leander, Texas joined Tripp Babbitt to record the latest podcast for the Deming Institute. Monta shares the compelling story of Leander Independent School District’s transformation to a Deming based management system. It […]

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Deming Today: Leander Texas Independent School District

By John Hunter / September 18, 2014 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. The Leander Texas Independent School District (LISD) has been applying Dr. Deming’s ideas to education for years with guidance from David Langford. One of the sections of The W. Edwards Deming Institute website provides views of organizations efforts to apply Deming’s ideas today. Here […]

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Deming Podcast: Andrea Gabor on Management at Ford, GM and the USA Education System

By John Hunter / August 28, 2014 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). In this episode of The W. Edward Deming Institute Podcast (download) Andrea Gabor begins by discussing her book The Man Who Discovered Quality: How W. Edwards Deming Brought the Quality Revolution to America – The Stories of Ford, Xerox, and GM. And […]

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