Deming Today

Reflections on the Fabric of the Toyota Production System

By Bill Bellows / September 23, 2019 / 0 Comments

Are you managing the parts of your company, or the way the parts interact with each other? We look to Toyota Motor Corporation for insight.

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Deming’s Ideas in Action: Trader Joe’s Culture

By Matthew Moss / August 19, 2019 / 0 Comments

Is Trader Joe’s “doing Deming”? Explore what this iconic company says about its values – and how they put those words into practice.

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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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Why Deming / Why Now / Working to transform “our” system

By Bill Bellows / November 8, 2018 / 0 Comments

“Learning is essential for our survival as a society.” – Dennis Sergent shares his Deming journey.

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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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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

By Matthew Moss / September 17, 2018 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, who founded curiouscat.com in 1996. 2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James, Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. Brent James has worked at Intermountain Healthcare for several decades. I wrote a previous post on this blog about a paper he […]

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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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How Sawtooth Botanical Garden is Transforming Thanks to Deming

By Matthew Moss / August 6, 2018 / 0 Comments

In this video interview with Aileron, Kat Vanden Heuvel, Executive Director at Sawtooth Botanical Garden, shares how Deming principles have changed the way people think and work at her nonprofit organization.

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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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