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The W. Edwards Deming Institute ®

A Brief History

Educated as an Engineer, later specializing in Mathematical Physics
He taught statistical product quality administration to the American defense industry during WWII
He brought the same message to the Japanese export industry. However, he expanded his message to include management responsibilities and consumer/market research
- Emperor awarded him a medal
Rediscovered by the American automotive industry he grew his ideas to cover new roles for management built upon his original teaching
- President awarded him a medal
He has been called the father of the third wave of the Industrial Revolution

By What Method

A Departure from Common Models for Management

Challenging Us to Consider

What does variation tell us about:

  • The process, the people in the process
  • Economic Control
  • Predictability
  • Types of actions

Understanding people and their interactions with:

  • Each other
  • Circumstances
  • Systems

To have an appreciation for a system:

  • interdependent components working together
  • Obligation of a component
  • Stability

To explore profound (deep) knowledge:

  • How knowledge is created and revised
  • The mind legislates for reality
  • Choice-of-concept depends on it's usefulness for action
  • Rational thinking

A Frame to Improve the Company
as a Whole

A New Message for Management
  • Build a foundation to navigate the future economy
  • Deeper understanding of the business environment where we live
  • Merge scientific management with human relations management
  • Release untapped potential of people
  • Better collaboration within the company
  • Increase company-wide efficiency and effectiveness
  • Improve insight into what is actually going on in the organization
  • Better insight about the real capabilities of the organization
  • Out of The Crisis
  • The New Economics
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  • Quality - February 1980
  • HBR June 24, 2016
  • Industry Week
  • FORTUNE - December 1969
  • U.S. News
  • U.S. News Article
  • People - September 8, 1980
  • The World of W. Edwards Deming
  • The Team Handbook
  • The Leader's Handbook
  • The Deming Route to Quality and Productivity
  • The Deming Route to Quality and Productivity-french
  • The Deming Dimension
  • The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality
  • The Symphony of Profound Knowledge
  • Some Theory of Sampling
  • Scoring a Whole in One
  • Sample Design in Business Research
  • The Man Who Discovered Quality
  • The Man Who Discovered Quality - Japanese
  • The Keys to Excellence
  • Four Days with Dr. Deming
  • Deming The Way We Knew Him
  • Deming's Profound Changes
  • Deming's Road to Coninual Improvement
  • The Deming Management Method
  • Deming Management at Work
  • The Deming Guide to Quality and Competive Position

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