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Category Archives: Deming
Operational Definitions and Data Collection
Americans’ Dirty Secret Revealed [the broken link was removed] by Bjorn Carey See also: Google News on washing hands [broken link was removed] – Soap and Detergent Association press release [another broken link was remove] A study released recently spawned … Continue reading
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Tagged critical thinking, Data, evidence based management, operational definition, Statistics
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Healthcare Costs Spike Again
Healthcare Costs Spike Again [the broken link was removed] by Jeanne Sahadi, CNN/Money: The premium growth rate this year – 9.2 percent – outpaced by miles both the growth in wages (2.7 percent) and inflation (3.5 percent) … since 2000 … Continue reading
Measurement and Data Collection
This is my response to the Deming Electronic Network message (the site is dead, so I removed the link) on measurement. I find it useful to ask what will be done with the results of data collection efforts (in order … Continue reading
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Tagged continual improvement, curiouscat, Data, Deming, evidence based management, quote, Statistics
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Deming and Six Sigma
My message in response to messages on Six Sigma [broken link has been removed] on the Deming Electronic Network: I think the DEN members criticizing the problems with Six Sigma make valid points. However, I personally think they often go … Continue reading
Life Beyond the Short Term
Life Beyond the Short Term by Simon Caulkin, The Observer. Last week’s column – ‘Adrift in a parallel universe‘ – about the perversion of management provoked an eloquent, sometimes passionate, response. … In the spirit of a positive alternative, a … Continue reading
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Fixing Healthcare from the Inside
Fixing Healthcare From the Inside, Today by Steven J. Spear, Harvard Business Review (PHBs broke the link so I removed it). To understand how the improvements were achieved, it is necessary to appreciate why such a gap exists between the … Continue reading
Appeal for Marketers to Apply Deming’s Ideas
Ego Systems by Doug Hall, CMO (Chief Marketing Officers magazine) [who have now broken the link, so I removed it. Really smart marketing, guys]: Deming’s methods can transform innovation success for CMOs just as they did for Toyota. For some … Continue reading
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Statistical Consulting
In the current issue of AMSTAT News (American Satistical Association) the President’s letter is focused on Statistical Consulting and W. Edwards Deming. He makes a good point, echoing those others have been making for quite some time: More and more, … Continue reading
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Deming on Management
Topic: Management Improvement I have added a new section to Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections titled: Deming on Management. W. Edwards Deming’s management ideas have greatly influenced modern management practice. Many quotes and thoughts are attributed to him. Sometimes these … Continue reading
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Managing with Control Charts
Ideas from the Tiger’s Head by Simon Caulkin, The Observer. This is a remarkably nuanced short article on control charts given that it is a newspaper article (which normally overly simplify such concepts to the point not much of value … Continue reading