Curious Cat: Deming on Management
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Dr. W. Edwards Deming management ideas have greatly influenced modern management practice. Many quotes and thoughts are attributed to W. Edwards Deming's system of management. Sometimes these represent his ideas accurately, and sometimes they do not. Here I attempt to clearly indicate what he actually said and include some of my thoughts on what he meant. Please share your thoughts with me.
Deming on Management- Deming's 14 points
- 7 deadly diseases
- Purpose of an organization
- Running a company on visible figures alone (Deming is often misquoted as saying "you can't manage what you can't measure")
- Innovation
- Destroyed by best efforts
- Performance appraisals
- Eliminating slogans and motivational posters
- Deming's Chain Reaction - improve quality -> reduce cost -> grow sales -> provide more jobs
- Role of government
- Cease dependence of inspection to insure quality
- Zero defects
- Why using targets is a bad management practice
- Excessive health care costs
- Leadership
- Tampering
- Quotes by Dr. Deming
Deming based organizations by John Hunter
Posts related to Deming's management ideas from our management improvement blog.
Links to a few of the Deming related terms from the Curious Cat Management Encyclopedia: Deming's 14 points, Red Bead Experiment, Seven Deadly Diseases, System of Profound Knowledge, Variation...
Links of Interest
- 2004 Deming Prize Winners Announced - Deming Prize information.
- Deming Electronic Network
- W. Edwards Deming Institute
- The Deming Cooperative, Deming Scholars taught with Deming
- In the Beginning, There Were Deming and Juran by Phil Landesberg, Dec 1999
- Does anybody give a hoot about profit? by W. Edwards Deming and Henry R. Neave, Jul 1900
- Variation, Management and W. Edwards Deming
by Brian Joiner and Marie Gaudard books related to Deming's management philosophy - more deming resources
