Tag: Deming

John Seddon Comments on Managing Costs

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Business Guru to Share Tips on How to Beat the Credit Crunch A Scottish business conference will be featuring a favorite of this blog, John...

Video Clip — Mike Micklewright as Dr. Deming

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You might remember my podcast with Mike Micklewright, "What Would Deming Say?" Here is a free video clip of his "An Evening with Dr. Deming"...

Lean and Deming’s Anti-Slogan Views

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Earlier leanblog.org post and commentLast week, I posted about Deming's 14 points and I got an interesting question from a blog reader, Brian:I found...

Deming Overview Article in the News

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The Whig Standard - Ontario, CAI'm always curious when I see an article like this in the news about the late Dr. W. Edwards...

GM to try to Inspect Quality In After Letting Experience Walk...

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GM preps for new hires after buyoutsThis is a particularly sad story. We often debate the proper role of layoffs and headcount reductions in...

An MD/CEO In Indiana Believes in Lean

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Doctor takes pulse of Lutheran Health | The Journal Gazette:Here's an article about Dr. Mike Schatzlein, Chief executive officer for Lutheran Health Network...

LeanBlog Podcast #43 – Mike Micklewright, “What Would Deming Say?”

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Episode #43 of LeanBlog Podcast is a very special one. My guest is Mike Mickleright, writer, consultant, and performer -- most interesting to me...

Mike Micklewright, Deming Impersonator

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You might recall that I posted back in January about a "Deming impersonator" who was presenting/performing. Thank to that post, I...

Conferences, Future and Recent

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The W. Edwards Deming InstituteThis has to be the best title for a seminar ever:How to Create Unethical, Ineffective Organizations That Go Out of...

Lowest "Respect for People" Score Ever?

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Employee's suit: Company used waterboarding to motivate workers - Salt Lake TribuneThis isn't a "Lean" article, but holy moley, you have to read the...

Lean *is* About Quality, Folks

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Time for a low-carb Lean Six Sigma?:Stuff like this irritates me to no end:"Lean Manufacturing has us analyzing process flow and delay times at...

A Silly Example of Mandates and Threats Not Working

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Cemetery full, mayor tells locals not to die Maybe this mayor has consumed too much Bordeaux wine. But this story is a wonderfully comical illustration...
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