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2019 Deming Prize Winners

By Matthew Moss / November 18, 2019 / 0 Comments

The Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) has announced the 2019 Deming Prize winners. Indian companies received 4 of the 5 awards.

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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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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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Book Review – Against All Odds: The Story of the Toyota Motor Corporation and the Family That Created It

By Bill Bellows / August 24, 2017 / 0 Comments

Post by Bill Bellows, Deputy Director, The Deming Institute. Once upon a time, well before his name entered lean folklore, Taiichi Ohno graduated from industrial school and earned a position with Toyoda Spinning & Weaving as a supervisor. The year was 1933 and Ohno soon became well known for his mustache, added to further his image of […]

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Toyota’s Management History

By John Hunter / October 31, 2016 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog (since 2004). One of the items Toyota highlights on their web site is winning the Deming Prize in 1965. From the Toyota website: Receiving the Deming Application Prize strengthened Toyota Motor Co., Ltd.’s resolve to push ahead with further TQC initiatives, and based on […]

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The Importance of Working with Suppliers Over the Long Term

By John Hunter / May 18, 2015 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. End the practice of awarding business on the basis of price tag. Instead, minimize total cost. Move toward a single supplier for any one item, on a long-term relationship of loyalty and trust. Point 4 in W. Edwards Deming’s 14 points for management Even […]

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The Birth of Lean

By John Hunter / September 22, 2014 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, founder of CuriousCat.com. The Birth of Lean is an valuable book from the Lean Enterprise Institute. It collects the thoughts of those leading and working with the Toyota Production System in the early days: Taiichi Ohno, Eiji Toyoda, Michikazu Tanaka, Kikuo Suzumura and others. The book doesn’t talk about Dr. Deming directly […]

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Application of Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge in Healthcare

By John Hunter / April 7, 2014 / 0 Comments

This paper discusses the Healthcare Value Network’s Shingo-based assessment process (which has Deming-based principles) and provides examples of application from some of the Healthcare Value Network member organizations.

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We Need to Understand Variation to Manage Effectively

By Guest Post / February 7, 2013 / 2 Comments

Guest post by Mike Stoecklein I had the good fortune to get to know Dr. Deming beginning in 1986. I call it a “correspondence relationship”. We wrote letters (these were the days before e-mail, and I doubt that Dr. Deming would ever send an e-mail even if it had existed). I played a small role […]

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Podcast Discussing Dr. Deming’s Ideas, The Deming Institute and Toyota

By John Hunter / November 15, 2012 / 0 Comments

By John Hunter, author of the Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog. Joe Dager, Business 901, has published an interview with me in a podcast: Dr. Deming on Lean in 2012. I hope you enjoy the podcast. Download podcast via the Business901 iTunes Store. I discussed some of my history with Dr. Deming’s ideas on management […]

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