SoPK
Putting Deming's principles into action to transform individuals, communities and organizations
April 10 by Timothy J. ClarkDeming’s Individual Transformed, Part II Dr. W. Edwards Deming estimated that without knowledge of variability, 95% of changes made by management results in no improvement, writes contributo...
Transformed leadership starts with a transformed individual (and that means you!)
April 08 by Timothy J. ClarkDeming’s Individual Transformed, Part I Several decades have passed since some of the management greats – Dr. W. Edwards Deming and Walter A. Shewhart – set about to transform t...
Creating Winning Businesses: Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge
September 05 by Process Excellence Network EditorWhen faced with challenging circumstances – declining revenue, loss of customers, declining profits margins, etc. – it is common for business executives to focus their attention on solvi...
Performance, Excellence and the Trouble with Tools
November 14 by Dave Nave and Steve DightmanBusiness is a complicated endeavor, write contributors Dave Nave and Steve Dightman. Analytical tools (from Six Sigma, Lean, etc.) provide a perspective, highly dependent on selected parameters. But...
Banish the Silos - How I.T. Can Lead Competitive Advantage
November 01 by Ben BlanqueraThe DNA strands of business are most often embedded in processes related to the bits and bytes contained in our information systems. But IT - the department that often has one of the widest fields...
Variation, So Meaningful Yet So Misunderstood - Deming's SoPK Part III
September 06 by Lynda M. FinnWhen businesses use the wrong data or don't recognize the different types of variation, the resulting decisions and actions tend to increase costs, reduce quality, reduce productivity, and foster fr...
The Trouble With Motivation - Deming's SoPK Part II
August 23 by Jussi KyllonenWhat makes the difference between ordinary people achieving extraordinary results on one hand, and extraordinary people achieving ordinary results on the other? Management insight makes the differen...
Systems Thinking and the Three Musketeers - Deming's SoPK Part I
August 09 by Eric ChristiansenConceptually, it is often easy to grasp the concept of Systems Thinking, writes contributor Eric Christiansen, in the first of a four-part series looking at Dr. W. Edward Deming's system of management...
Sustainable Development the Deming Way
April 04 by Paul BeshahDeming said that systems must be designed and led so everyone can win, says Paul Beshah, once a refugee from Ethiopia and now a professional in the United States. In this week's The Deming Files, Be...