But there was a second dimension to Deming that was more often than not simply ignored.
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The lesson in Keats and Deming may be a simple one, at least insofar as innovation is concerned.
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White papersare urging nervous CEOs to realize that salvation lies in Deming Prizes, Malcolm Baldrige Awards and just-in-time inventory.
With paper-based systems you cannot have the types of efficiency we associate with Deming or the total production system.
The most surprising thing is that Deming did not do this first in his native America, but in Japan.
The leadership piece of Deming was critical because he understood that it was the system that caused outcomes, not individuals.
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The cinematographer Peter Deming lights one of the blackest of all film-noir fade-outs: it traps you in an infinite night.
Bruce Deming, a former federal prosecutor and avid amateur cyclist himself, said he doubted the criminal case would be reopened.
In many ways it reminds me of the rise of the Quality movement in the 1950s spearheaded by Deming.
More than one hundred years after Keats, Edwards Deming set out to transform business thinking, anticipating much of the current worldview regarding innovation.
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The Deming, or (Walter A.) Shewhart PDCA Cycle as some people call it, is often used to improve the quality of products and services.
Drake Deming, professor at the University of Maryland, points out that Earth can be seen transiting the sun from many vantage points throughout our galaxy.
Juran always emphasised the difference in approach between himself and Deming.
Japan, under the guidance of Edwards Deming, mastered the crucial economic laws and disciplines of the Industrial Age and began to pull ahead of the rest of the world.
But Deming was, for the most part, misunderstood and misapplied.
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Juran focused more on the human-relations aspects of quality, while Deming's approach involved demonstrating that all business processes are vulnerable to a loss of quality through statistical variation.
Deming failed in America contrary to Japan because of that.
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Japan, under the guidance of W. Edwards Deming, mastered the crucial economic laws and disciplines of the Industrial Age and began to pull ahead of the rest of the world.
There is something to this, but Japan's national obsession with quality was apparent early in its post-war industrialisation, when it adopted the teachings of W. Edwards Deming, an American quality-control guru.
Many management gurus, including Frederick Taylor, W. Edwards Deming (the founder of the quality movement), Henry Mintzberg and Bruce Henderson (the man behind the experience curve), were trained first as engineers.
It gave Americans some solace at the time to discover that behind the Japanese quality miracle had been two Americans that few of them had heard of: Joseph Moses Juran and W. Edwards Deming.
He said that Deming was more focused on the statistical analysis of quality whereas he, Juran, was more concerned about the human input, teaching people how to introduce what he called CWQM (company-wide quality management).
Professor Zhang Deming, President of Shanghai TV University, will receive the prize on behalf of his university for its project Turning the Digital Divide into Digital Opportunity: The Project for Building the Digital Lifelong Learning System in Shanghai.
Born in Iowa and raised on his grandfather's chicken farm, Deming joined the US Census Bureau in 1939 and, after the second world war, was sent to Japan to advise on a census that was taking place there.
He thus joined W. Edwards Deming (see article) in management mythology as one of the two Americans who, unappreciated in their own fast-food country for their ideas about quality, had been compelled to go abroad to find recognition.
Luo Liang (played by a young man of the same name) is the driver and bagman for a big-time developer, Boss Peng (Peng Deming), who turns to strong-arm tactics when his attempts at bribery fail to clear restive peasants from their land.
Even Joseph Juran, one of the two American post-war germinators of the quality idea (the other was W. Edwards Deming), considered that quality circles were pretty useless if the company's management was not trained in the more general principles of total quality management.
"This investigation against Lance, which you know involved multiple federal agencies and a very large, well-organized federal investigation and what has to be millions of dollars spent, came up with apparently not enough hard evidence to charge Lance Armstrong with a parking ticket, " Deming said.
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