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Deming on Management - Deming's management ideas have greatly influenced modern management practice. Many quotes and thoughts are attritbuted to him. Here, I attempt to clearly indicate what he actual said and include some of my thoughts on what he meant.

Deming: Bio | links | library | Consultants | Blogs

• Deming Electronic Network: many articles and files, archive of DEN mailing list.
• W. Edwards Deming Institute
• The Deming Cooperative, Deming Scholars program at Fordham, Contact those who taught with Deming, Books and Articles...
• links to a few of the Deming related terms from the Curious Cat Management Encyclopedia: Deming's 14 points, Red Bead Experiment, Seven Deadly Diseases, System of Profound Knowledge, Variation
• Consultants: Associates in Process Improvement | John Hunter | Interactive Seminars and Consulting - Gerald Suarez | SPC Press
• library of Congress register of W. Edwards Deming papers.
• MAQIN | UK Deming Forum | French Deming Association | Deming Learning Network - Aberdeen, Scotland | The Swiss Deming Institute
• ManagementWisdom.com (CC-M Productions) including the Deming library video tapes, Better Management for a Changing World Videos (with Russel Ackoff and Gerlad Suarez), Pat Oliphant's Illustrations of Deming's 14 Points, chapter one of both Quality or Else and Thinking about Quality, even videos about Teilhard De Chardin (quite outside the scope of most management theory but someone important to us at curiouscat.com and, at least, a few others) and much more.
• JUSE - Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers: manage the Deming Prize, 2008 Deming Prize, 2007, 2006 - 2005 - 2004.

Companies famous for managing based on Deming's ideas

• My blog posts: Deming and Toyota - Deming Companies
• Gallery Furniture - Jim McIngvale
• Also known applying Deming's ideas: Toyota, Florida Power and light, Hillerich and Bradsby, Omnilingua
• Marshall Industries (bought by Avnet in 1999) - Ron Rodin's excellent book (Free, Perfect, and Now) documents Marshall's journey.

Curious Cat Management Improvement library

• Quality and the Required Style of Management by W. Edwards Deming       Journal for Quality and Participation 1988

In the Beginning, There Were Deming and Juran by Phil Landesberg,   Dec 1999  
Originally published in the Journal of Quality and Participation. A nice (very short) look back on the lives and ideas of Deming and Juran with the aim of encouraging us to learn from their work.

Does anybody give a hoot about profit? by W. Edwards Deming and Henry R. Neave,   Jul 1900  
Dr W. Edwards Deming gave a short presentation to some 25 executives from major European companies. This document is a transcript prepared and edited by Henry Neave.

Leaders of People: Some are Wonderful, Some are Clueless. The Rest are Somewhere In Between by Peter Scholtes, 1996

Managing Fear by Gerald Suarez,  
A one page article on managing fear to improve performance.

Variation, Management and W. Edwards Deming by Brian Joiner and Marie Gaudard       Quality Progress December 1990

Many more articles relating to Deming's ideas

Sites with a few pages relating to the Deming Philosophy

• American Statistical Association including Deming Lecturer Award information.
• ASQC pages on W. Edwards Deming and Walter Shewhart
• Hanching Chung's Site from Tiawan
• Do Right Foundation

Consultants with some Deming info on their site

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• Associates in Process Improvement including: Gerald Langley, Ronald Moen, Thomas Nolan and Lloyd Provost, The Improvement Guide
• Langford International, David Langford, Orchestrating Learning With Quality
• SPC Press, Donald Wheeler, Understanding Variation: The Key to Managing Chaos
• Scholtes Seminars and Consulting, Peter Scholtes, The Leader's Handbook: Making Things Happen, Getting Things Done, 1998. details
• WWS Inc., Bill Scherkenbach, Deming's Road to Continual Improvement
• Interactive Seminars and Consulting, Dr. J. Gerald Suarez
• John HUnter

Blogs, Mailing lists and Newsletters

• Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog - Deming posts
• Deming in the UK Newsletter
Send an email message to subscribe@wed.waitrose.com with your name and company in the subject line.
• Statistical & Scientific Thinking blog by John Dowd.

Books relating to the Deming Philosophy

• Order books online, most at discounts of 20 or 30%, via the Curious Cat Management Improvement Bookstore's list of Deming related books

The New Economics for Industry, Government, and Education, Second Edition, 1993, by W. Edwards. Deming.

The Leader's Handbook: Making Things Happen, Getting Things Done, by Peter Scholtes