W. Edwards Deming, the most influential of America’s quality gurus and a man many credit with helping tiny, impoverished postwar Japan become a manufacturing powerhouse, died Monday at the age of 93.

Jim Glidden had heard the stories and read the books. Now here he was with 650 other executives preparing to hear the words from the man himself-W. Edwards Deming, the American management guru ...

W. Edward Deming's management method is similar to the scientific method but is designed to help people make better business decisions. The Deming cycle, also known as the PDCA or PDSA cycle, focuses ...

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"We need to go far beyond common sense and seek to understand common causes ± and fix the system instead of the worker." In traditional safety management, the theory of accident prevention is based on ...

Quality at the University of Helsinki means doing the right things at the right time in the right way to achieve top results. The fit for purpose operating models are continuously assessed and ...