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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
This month LMJ board member Bill Bellows writes about pudding, The Beatles and Deming’s ideas on production systems.The first step is transformatio…
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…
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…
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…