Tag: Deming

I've been doing a lot of re-reading (and some fresh reading) of the concepts of W. Edwards Deming recently. I've decided April will be...

Investor's Business Daily: He Pointed Firms To Quality For those of you not familiar with W. Edwards Deming, here is a nice overview article from...

Got a question yesterday from Eric Christiansen, my guest for episode #18 of the LeanBlog Podcast. He asked: Can a company be considered a lean company...

Here is Episode #18 of the LeanBlog Podcast. My guest today is Eric Christiansen, the President of a translation services company, OmniLingua (more can...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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