Business 901 Podcast with Me: Deming’s Management Ideas Today

I recently was interviewed for a podcast by Joe Dager, at Business 901: Dr. Deming on Lean in 2012. I hope you enjoy the podcast.

Listen to this podcast.

Here are some links related to items I mention in the podcast:

• The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog
• William Hunter, my father. Link to paper with Easaw Chacko on Building a Quality Movement within a developing nation, 1972. Developing Children’s Numeracy Using Dice
• Statistics for Experimenters by George Box, Bill Hunter and Stu Hunter.
• City of Madison applying Deming’s management ideas:
  • pages 245-247 of Out of the Crisis
  • Quality Comes to City Hall by Joseph Sensenbrenner
  • Peter Scholtes, author of The Leader’s Handbook
  • Doing More with Less in the Public Sector by Bill Hunter, Jan O’Neill and Carol Wallen

  Taiichi Ohno. Russell Ackoff.

• Shoichiro Toyoda, Honorary Chairman and director of Toyota: “There is not a day I don’t think about what Dr. Deming meant to us. Deming is the core of our management.”
• Deming Prize, awarded by the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers
• Video of Dr. W. Edwards Deming: Deadly Diseases of Western Management

Some blog posts that expand on some points I made in the podcast:

• Dr. Deming’s personal aim was to advance commerce, prosperity and peace
• Dr. Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge
• New Deadly Diseases
• Lean Manufacturing and the Toyota Production System, Why Use Lean if So Many Fail To Do So Effectively
• Toyota Targets 50% Reduction in Maintenance Waste
• Practical Ways to Demonstrate Respect for People