Tag: Deming

Toyota: A Carmaker Wired to Win:Dan Markovitz beat me to the punch, but I also wanted to comment on some things in the article:The...

I really dislike motivational posters, particularly those meant to inspire quality. I guess it comes from the early Deming training/indoctrination and having been around...

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...