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This year as a result of Dr. Deming, I had decided to dig into Systems Thinking more. I re-read The Fifth Discipline, which had been my introduction into Lean and Six Sigma. Being a business owner, I did not have a problem looking at the whole or as it later became known as viewing the Read More …
Brian was a protege of W. Edwards Deming and has received the Deming Medal, the Shewhart Medal, the Hunter Award, the Ott Award, and the Wilcoxon Prize. In addition, he was one of the original nine judges of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and one of the originators of the Minitab statistical software system. Read More …
The ASQ Charlotte Section Annual Conference 2013, Quality Conference of the Carolinas will focus on Leadership Development with three different tracks. As an anchor sponsor, Jeremy Bowen of Snyder’s-Lance will kick off the conference with a talk on Intentional Leadership. Afterwards, attendees will have the opportunity to choose between three different tracks; Problem Solving Leadership, Read More …
Ken Rolfes of KDR Associates was my guest on the Business901 podcast, A Lean Practitioner. In the podcast, I asked Ken what he enjoyed most about his work and he replied: Basically, what I enjoy the most is really getting the people energized in companies when they see the possibilities of what they can do Read More …
Rob van Stekelenborg is the author of Dumontis blog and a recent article Pushing and Pulling in the Supply Chain. In the blog, Rob discussed Customer Order Decoupling Point (CODP). A brief excerpt: The (customer order) decoupling point (CODP) or order penetration point is one of the most well-known logistical concepts. It indicates the inventory Read More …
In retrospect, I cannot honestly say why I ended up following Dr. Deming more so than Dr. Juran, or Philip Crosby, who I consider the other giants of the quality movement. I am not even sure in my first several readings of Dr, Deming that I even understood how it applied to me other than Read More …