Joe Dager has posted another Business 901 podcast with a leading Deming management authority, this time with Brian Joiner, author of Fourth Generation Management, co-author of the Team Handbook and long time colleague of Dr. Deming. Early in Brian’s career he shared an office with Dr. Deming’s wife; and that led to Brian getting to [...]
This video has been added to The W. Edwards Deming Institute YouTube channel. The video provides some history on Dr. Deming and his ideas on management. We hope you enjoy this short look at Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s life. Related: Inspection is too late: the quality, good or bad, is already in the product – [...]
Masaaki Imai is a consultant, author and founder of the Kaizen Institute. The second edition of his book, Gemba Kaizen, was published this year. He agreed to an interview with The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog. Question: Did you work with Dr. Deming? Answer: I never had the privileges of meeting Dr. Deming. I can [...]
Several speeches are mentioned in the various biographical sketches of Dr. Deming and his impact on Japanese management. In particular a talk he gave at the Mt. Hakone Conference center in 1950 seems to have been important. Attendees included the top industrial managers, representing an esitimated 75% of industrial capital base of Japan at that [...]
The 2012 Deming Prize winners were announced today by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE). The companies awarded the Deming Prize this year are: SRF Limited, Chemicals Business (India) Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Farm Equipment Sector, Swaraj Division (India) This continues the recent trend of organizations based in India receiving the Deming prize. [...]