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Why Variation Matters: Awaken Your Inner Deming (Part 3)
In this episode, Bill and Andrew discuss variation, the impossibility of true interchangeability and why we need to apply "shades of gray" thinking a…
2 years, 10 months ago
Optimizing Diversity: The Role of the Manager in Education (Part 3)
In this third discussion in a series on the Role of a Manager, David and Andrew discuss how a manager should view, and treat, people. Deming wrote, "…
2 years, 10 months ago
Making Data Meaningful: Deming in Schools Case Study with John Dues (Part 3)
Education is often touted as data- or evidence-driven. But in this discussion, John Dues contends that educational data is often fiction, given how e…
2 years, 10 months ago
Meeting Requirements Is Not Enough: Awaken Your Inner Deming (Part 2)
What is quality? Does it mean always meeting specifications? What if the calculus for specifications means little and tells managers almost nothing a…
2 years, 11 months ago
Fostering Cooperation: The Role of a Manager in Education (Part 2)
In this episode, Andrew and David discuss how managers can help people to see themselves as components in a system, working with those before and aft…
2 years, 11 months ago
Growing Businesses in Kenya: Interview with Justin Macharia
Andrew talks to Justin Marcharia, Round Table Training Africa's Managing Director, about his collaboration with The Deming Institute. His goal is to …
2 years, 11 months ago
Applying SoPK: Deming in Schools Case Study (Part 2)
Most people come into education familiar with classroom management and curriculum, but the concept of Profound Knowledge changes the way you view the…
2 years, 11 months ago
From Taguchi to Deming: Awaken Your Inner Deming
In this, the first in a series of episodes on Awakening Your Inner Deming, Andrew talks with Dr. Bill Bellows about his journey. He started with Tagu…
2 years, 11 months ago
Define the System and the Aim: Role of a Manager in Education (Part 1)
With this episode, Andrew and David P. Langford start a new series on the Role of the Manager in Education. Inspired by chapter 6 in The New Economic…
3 years ago
Confusion vs Clarity: Deming in Schools Case Study (Part 1)
In this new series on applying Deming to education, Andrew talks with John Dues, Chief Learning Officer at United Schools Network and long-time Demin…
3 years ago