Tag: Deming

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Fortune: The new rules - Jul. 11, 2006Part of Fortune's cover story about how Jack Welch's "old rules" don't apply any more, this includes...

One of the core ideas of the Toyota Production System is the recognition that people are indeed human and are therefore fallible (part of...