Martin Laurent's story of transforming a GM plant using Deming continues. (Part 3 in a 4-Part Series)| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
Guest post by Marty Laurent: My 15-minute presentation lasted 6 hours. By the end, I had learned more from Dr. Deming than I had in all my years in college. (Part 1 in 4-part series.)| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
Over the past 30+ years, in spite of various education reform efforts, average ACT scores have been about the same - until recently. In this post, Dr. Doug Stilwell examines the problems of top-down approaches to education policy, and offers a better alternative using Deming thinking.| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
Is there such a thing as a broken system, or are the undesirable results evidence of a system performing precisely as intended? In this guest post, Dr. Doug Stilwell explores the nature of systems.| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
It’s time to take a look back at our 30th Anniversary Year. For the first two decades of our history, passionate volunteers were the driving force behind the Institute. As we celebrate 30 years of service, we are profoundly grateful for the remarkable partners, enthusiastic volunteers, and generous donors within the Deming community who have […]| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
In this guest post, Dr. Doug Stilwell explores a transformative encounter with a student on the dual nature of systems, and how his thinking shifted.| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
This is the final installation of Martin Laurent's story of transforming a GM plant using the Deming philosophy. He shares the extraordinary results of his team's efforts.| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
The aim of this article is to specifically address the topic of competition among schools and districts as a means to improve the performance of the education system. (Hint: it doesn't work!)| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
In a new podcast series, Jacob Stoller and podcast host Andrew Stotz discussed five major management and productivity myths and how Lean and Deming thinking solve them.| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to improve the effectiveness of a business or organization significantly. The principles (points) were first presented in his book Out of the Crisis. Below is the condensation of the 14 Points for Management, but these alone will not…| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
In this second of four posts, Marty Laurence describes how he took Deming thinking into a GM plant. He adapted to meet the local conditions and, over nine years, his team achieved tremendous success.| The W. Edwards Deming Institute
By John Hunter, author of Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth." - W. Edwards Deming, The New Economics. One of the quotes you will see quite frequently "incorrectly" attributed to Dr. Deming…| The W. Edwards Deming Institute