Lessons from Deming: The brief history of quality, part three
This brief history of quality, would not be complete without sharing a passage from Prophets in the dark, by David Kearns, the former CEO of Xerox: In…
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Lessons from Deming: a brief history of quality-part two
While guilds held a strong control over quality and commerce through the Middle Ages, they began to decline in importance in the 18th and 19th centurie…
Don’t tell them it’s lean and you’ll get away with it
This article describes how the improvement process was implemented and by relating it to lean philosophy and methods attempts to conclude as to why the…
Lessons from Deming: Brief history of quality- part 1
“Variation there will always be, between people, in output, in service, in product. What is the variation trying to tell us? -W. Edwards Deming Sever…
Lessons from Deming: economics of teamwork
Bill Bellows' column this month discusses the ideas of being careful where to cut those low hanging fruit from. You could end up making more work in th…
Lessons from Deming: Instant pudding
This month LMJ board member Bill Bellows writes about pudding, The Beatles and Deming’s ideas on production systems.The first step is transformatio…
Lessons from Deming: learning to discern- quality and quality
LMJ board member Bill Bellows, presents this month’s Lessons from Deming which focuses on variation and how to discern where the quality may lie with t…
Lessons from Deming: beyond management by extremes
In this month’s Lesson from Deming, LMJ editorial board member Bill Bellows explores the idea of what’s better, diversity or the quickest process? Whic…
Lessons from Deming: profits, pragmatism, and the possibilities of possessing other eyes
LMJ editorial board member Bill Bellows explores the ideas of teamwork and how Deming’s ideas on working with a new set of beliefs could help an organi…