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The Transformation from School Based Learning to Lifelong Learning

By John Hunter / October 2, 2017 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). This webcast shows Bjarne Wig’s presentation, The Transformation of Learning, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. See Bjarne’s research paper that forms the basis of the talk: The Transformation of Learning at the Work Place. Educational institutions are becoming dinosaurs […]

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Understanding and Misunderstanding Variation

By John Hunter / September 18, 2017 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. This webcast shows Mike Stoecklein’s presentation, Understanding and Misunderstanding Variation in Healthcare, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. The companion research paper that Mike wrote, Understanding and Misunderstanding Variation in Healthcare is packed with additional information on the topics he discusses and includes […]

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Collaborating to Improve Government Performance

By John Hunter / August 21, 2017 / 0 Comments

Guest post by John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. This webcast shows Phil Landesberg’s presentation, Collaborating to Improve Government Performance, at the 2015 Deming Research Seminar. I have known Phil for many years having served with him on the board of the Washington DC Deming User’s group. I also worked at […]

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When We Understand Our Work and We are Given the Ability to Improve It – We Will

By John Hunter / June 19, 2017 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Jim Benson’s presentation at our 2015 International Deming Research Seminar explored how to manage the workload better to improve results. We want to help people become happy so that they will build better products. We fundamentally believe that happy people do exactly that. Companies […]

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Public Administration: Past, Present, and Future

By John Hunter / April 27, 2017 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). Professor Ravi Roy, Director of the W. Edwards Deming Incubator for Public Affairs at Southern Utah University spoke at the Deming Management in Public Administration Conference earlier this year on Public Administration: Past, Present, and Future. Quoting Denzau and North (from Shared […]

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David Langford Presentation on Motivation and System Improvement

By John Hunter / February 23, 2017 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. David Langford’s presentation at our 2015 annual conference was titled: Education – Implementation Intentions and Automatization. David included a clip from one of my favorite shows, Utopia (called Dreamland in USA) with a vivid example of a performance appraisal experience. David also discusses the problems created by using extrinsic […]

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Change the Situation – Get a Different Result

By John Hunter / November 3, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. David Langford’s presentation at the 2015 Deming in Education conference starts with a clip from Clare Crawford Mason’s PBS presentation on Mt. Edgecumbe High School, in Sitka, Alaska. Deming was a champion of the individual. He would go into companies and he would just berate management, but he loved […]

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Inquiring Minds: Improving Elementary Science by Linda Lippe

By John Hunter / April 4, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. Linda Lippe’s presentation, Inquiring Minds: Improving Elementary Science in Leander ISD, Texas at our 2015 Deming in Education Conference. The 2nd annual Deming in Education conference will be held November 4-6, 2016 Atlanta, Georgia One of the first tools they used in 2003 to determine what they should focus […]

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The Neuroscience of Deming

By John Hunter / April 25, 2013 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. One of the most talked about presentations at this years annual conference for The W. Edwards Deming Institute was JW Wilson’s: The Neuroscience of Deming. The talk included a great deal of detail on neuroscience which was quite interesting. While some content may have been a bit of a […]

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