Tag: Deming

W. Edwards Deming: Leadership, Quality, and Continuous Improvement

W. Edwards Deming’s ideas about leadership, systems, variation, and psychology continue to shape how organizations pursue quality and improvement. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections exploring Deming’s teachings—and how they apply to Lean, healthcare, management, and continuous improvement today. Many of these posts challenge common misinterpretations of Deming’s work, emphasizing that quality cannot be delegated and that improvement starts with leadership.

Are Annual Reviews Killing Your Morale?

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Deming listed the annual review process as one of the "deadly diseases" of management. From this website: "Evaluation of performance, annual review, merit rating. nourishes short-term...

Error-Proofing Enhances Quality

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Society of Manufacturing EngineersCatching up on some old links and articles I never did get around to publishing... here's a good overview of...

Who is Responsible for Quality?

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I saw this card (click on it for a larger view) included with some medical products that were shipped to a hospital. It's...

"Measuring Minds at Work"

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There's a column with that title in the current issue of Business 2.0 magazine, the Nov 2006 issue. I'm re-posting this because the article...

A Deming Newspaper

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Desoto Sun Herald - 11/06/06A second mention of Deming today...This isn't a major newspaper, but the Desoto Sun Herald, in Florida, says: We...

Lost Baggage is Management’s Fault

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Frustration Grows at Carousel as More Baggage Goes AstrayW. Edwards Deming is famous (but not famous enough) for pointing out that most errors are...

Dr. Kovach is Part of a System…

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... and the system sucks!" That was the final line of a recent episode of ER that we just watched last night (thanks to the...

Michael Irvin Channels W. Edwards Deming?

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So I'm watching SportsCenter and analyst Michael Irvin, former Cowboys wide receiver, is talking about Cowboys coach Bill Parcells and Wide Receiver / Attention...

Unknowable Numbers and the Absurd

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Infor Launches ERP XA MES Suite for Lean ManufacturingThis article talks about software for lean manufacturing environments, an idea that could be debated on...

The Proper Use of Metrics

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I was able to tour a hospital laboratory that had already gone through the lean process.One metric was a daily tally of "sticks per...

How Incentives Are Ineffective

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Reward and Incentive Programs are Ineffective -- Even Harmful by Peter R. Scholtes It's worth a full post and full link, this article that John...

People want to do Quality Work

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A question to ask yourselves (if you're in management): does your management system allow people to do their best work? Even if...
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