In Their Own Words

In our May 2018 interview podcast, his 4th session with Tripp, Kevin Cahill, Executive Director, reflects on the 25th anniversary of The Deming Institute..

Highlights include:

• Latest news from The Deming Institute
• Creating the future of the Institute
• Use of ED software, from Acquate
• 2018 Deming Institute Conference at Bryce Canyon National Park
• Southern Utah University's W. Edwards Deming Incubator for Public Affairs (WEDIPA), under the direction of Professor Ravi Roy, has become the Quality, Innovation & Leadership Incubator
• Recent visit to Ingenium Schools
• The Deming Institute's 25th Anniversary Conference, October 5-6, 2018, Manhattan Beach, California (4 miles south of LAX)
• 3rd Edition of The New Economics, including a new chapter (#11), set for release in the fall of 2018
• Ongoing partnership with Aileron
• A new initiative to create greater access to the Deming philosophy

In our May 2018 interview podcast, his 4th session with Tripp, Kevin Cahill, Executive Director, reflects on the 25th anniversary of The Deming Institute..

Highlights include:

• Latest news from The Deming Institute
• Creating the future of the Institute
• Use of ED software, from Acquate
• 2018 Deming Institute Conference at Bryce Canyon National Park
• Southern Utah University's W. Edwards Deming Incubator for Public Affairs (WEDIPA), under the direction of Professor Ravi Roy, has become the Quality, Innovation & Leadership Incubator
• Recent visit to Ingenium Schools
• The Deming Institute's 25th Anniversary Conference, October 5-6, 2018, Manhattan Beach, California (4 miles south of LAX)
• 3rd Edition of The New Economics, including a new chapter (#11), set for release in the fall of 2018
• Ongoing partnership with Aileron
• A new initiative to create greater access to the Deming philosophy

Topics in this episode include:

• Statistical Process Control (SPC)
• Understanding Variation
• Overview of control charts
• Concept of a process being in a state of "statistical control"
• Special causes and common causes of variation 
• When to use a control chart and for how long?
• Minimize the net economic loss of two types of mistakes

1. What is your job?
2. Can you know if you do your job right?
3. Who is the judge of your work?
4. Who is your immediate customer?
5. How many people know how your customer uses the work you turn out?
6. Can you do your work if you don’t know how your customer uses your work?
7. How to wash a table?
8. Communication gaps
9. Every sit down and do their job

Topics in this episode include:

• Frederick Winslow Taylor and Deming management
• Is Deming management old and outdated?
• The original management consultant
• 4 Principles of Scientific Management
• book - Deming's Profound Changes

Topics in this episode include:

• Highlights of recent Study Sessions of The New Economics
• Why are companies not using the Deming philosophy still in business?
• What do you need to do to evaluate your business?
• What obstacles may I face in making change?
• The fundamental role of a Deming lens

1. The 5 Deadly Diseases of Western Management
2. How to measure productivity vs improve productivity
3. Lack of constancy of purpose
4. Emphasis on short-term profits
5. Annual system of rating salaried people
6. Mobility of management
7. Management by use of visible figures only

Topics in this episode include:

• Competition vs. Cooperation
• Participation trophies in sports
• Artificial scarcity
• Economists and competition
• Critical mass for organizational transformation
• Personal transformation is discontinuous

Topics in this episode include:

• Individual becomes suddenly aware of Win-Win
• Would anyone wish to do business with a loser?
• Pinning the blame on others
• How can we improve the system?
• The importance of cooperation

1. Theory of Knowledge
2. Management in any form is prediction
3. Knowledge has temporal spread
4. Information is not knowledge
5. No knowledge without prediction
6. Chanticleer the Rooster
7. Theories of a Flat Earth and Round Earth
8. Theory leads to prediction
9. Any rational plan is prediction
10. A statement devoid of rational prediction conveys no knowledge
11. No true value of any characteristic
12. Get the facts - nonsense!
13. Change the method, get a new number
14. A dictionary contains information, not knowledge