...and has been for 14 or 15 years.
W Edwards Deming offers some advice via 1984.
This clip nominates 5 management diseases. How have things changed in the last 25 years?
Thanks to John at CuriousCatBlog for putting this in front of me.
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Thanks. What a wonderful trip down memory lane. Demming's "Out of the Crisis" is the only text book I still have from my undergraduate degree.
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Andy
Great clip, but in retrospect given the past 10 years or so of Japan's relatively lackluster performance, I wonder it Deming was right or if time or conditions have over-taken the world?
ReplyDeleteIn Deming's days, there was not the over-capacity we have now.... So long time employement was possible..... Today, the churn rate- new products being introduced and "old" products being retired is down to months for something like cell phones.....
I am not disputing much of Deming's wisdom, but I think it necessary to put it in the context of a world quite different than the post WWII days that marked Deming's ascendancy and philosophical maturation....
BR,
Dr. PDG, Jakarta
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Dr Paul - I am not sure things are so different these days.
ReplyDeleteHas the world changed or has Japan moved away from Deming's principles?
Craig,
ReplyDeleteMaybe a little of both?
Not 100% sure, but I suspect the world has changed more than the Japanese have drifted away from Deming's teachings.
I think the over-capacity in so many sectors has caught everyone by surprise and combined with so much fiat currency floating around the world, (led by the US dollar!!) I suspect we are in for quite a long recovery, very much along the lines of what Japan has experienced for the past 10 years or so....
BR,
Dr. PDG