podcast

From Chaos to Process at Fitness Matters

By John Hunter / June 30, 2016 / 0 Comments

Travis Timmons, owner of Fitness Matters, describes the company’s Deming Transformation that took them from chaos to stability – and unprecedented success.

Read More

Cliff Norman and Ron Moen Discuss the History of the PDSA Cycle

By John Hunter / May 12, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. Cliff Norman and Ron Moen, of Associates in Process Improvement (API) discuss the history of the Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) Cycle and their research on the subject in the latest Deming Institute podcast (download the podcast). This is the second Deming podcast with Ron […]

Read More

The Deming in Education Initiative

By John Hunter / April 21, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). In this Deming Institute podcast (download the podcast) Kevin Cahill and David Langford share how The Deming in Education Initiative was conceived, the impact of the Deming Philosophy on education, and where the Initiative is going in the future. The initiative first […]

Read More

What To Consider When Looking at Data from Surveys

By John Hunter / March 24, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. In this latest W. Edwards Deming Institute podcast, Dr. Sophronia (Frony) Ward, Managing and Founding Partner of Pinnacle Partners, (direct download) discussess what you need to consider when looking at data from surveys. One of the points Frony makes is that often the survey data you see fail to […]

Read More

Deming Podcast with Scott Dalgleish, CEO at Phase IV Engineering

By John Hunter / February 8, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Scott Dalgleish is the CEO at Phase IV Engineering Scott first encountered Deming’s ideas while an engineer at Proctor & Gamble in 1986. Deming training was rolled out to us. I thought it was a really wonderful thing. It provided some very innovative and realistic solutions to solve a […]

Read More

Process Behavior Charts are the Secret to Understanding the Organization as a System

By John Hunter / January 21, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. The W. Edwards Deming Institute podcast with Dr. Sophronia (Frony) Ward, Managing and Founding Partner of Pinnacle Partners, Process Behavior Charts are the Secret to Understanding the Organization as a System (direct download), is another in our understanding variation series. Frony discusses the importance of Statistical Process Control (SPC) […]

Read More

Lean Blog Podcast with Kevin Cahill

By John Hunter / January 12, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Lean Blog Podcast #238 – Kevin Cahill, on his Grandfather, W. Edwards Deming (download). Quote from Kevin in the podcast: Somebody at any level does have some sphere of influence that they can impact… by just thinking from a systems standpoint, by looking at the organization differently than some […]

Read More

Podcast with Lynda Finn: The Value of the Simple Run Chart

By John Hunter / December 14, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Lynda Finn, President of Statistical Insight and facilitator for The Deming Institute. Download the podcast with Linda: A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Data Points. This podcast is the first episode of our “Knowledge In Variation Series.” Lynda discusses the importance of moving from […]

Read More

Applying Dr. Deming’s Ideas at the Lakeville Public School System

By John Hunter / October 28, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Dr. Lisa Snyder, Superintendent of the Lakeville Public Schools shares how the work of Dr. Deming is influencing her as a superintendent and the rewards and challenges of adopting his philosophies in the latest Deming podcast. Lisa will be speaking at the First Annual Deming in Education Conference (in […]

Read More

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 […]

Read More
Scroll to Top