Tag: Deming

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...

PDCA at the TSA?

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ABC News: Airport Security To Be Easier for Families? I am probably giving the Transportation Security Agency waaaaaay too much credit here, but this story...

Deming on Education

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If there was any value to the Industry Week commentary that tried to link Deming and Obama, it was that it prompted me to...

John Boyd, Lean Fighter Pilot Part I

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The OODA Loop & You I love examples of lean thinking that come from unexpected angles. Mike Gardner at the TPM Log recently brought up...
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