Tag: Deming
John Seddon Comments on Managing Costs
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
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
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
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...
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
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?”
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
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
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?
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
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
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...