Curious Cat Management Improvement: Deming and Toyota
As part of my atonement for mis-stating W. Edwards Deming's views on inspection a few weeks back, I'll provide a link to a real Deming expert blog and a post discussing the idea of “Does Toyota subscribe to all of Deming's 14 Points?”
When I worked at GM about 10 years ago, the plant had multiple posters hanging up touting the “Quality Philosophy”, which was basically Demings 14 points. Ironically enough, it was just a poster on the wall, is wasn't followed at the least. I was a weird college student, reading “Out of the Crisis
Deming's 14 Points Here
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