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William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American business theorist, composer, economist, industrial engineer, management consultant, statistician, and writer.
W. Edwards Deming was an American statistician, educator, and consultant whose advocacy of quality-control methods in industrial production aided Japan’s economic recovery after World War II and spurred the subsequent global success of many Japanese firms in the late 20th century.
W. Edwards Deming’s 14 Points. Create constancy of purpose for improving products and services. Adopt the new philosophy. Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. End the practice of awarding business on price alone; instead, minimize total cost by working with a single supplier.
Dr. W. Edwards Deming offered 14 key principles for management to follow to improve the effectiveness of a business or organization significantly. The principles (points) were first presented in his book Out of the Crisis.
Born on October 14, 1900, Dr. W. Edwards Deming was an eminent scholar and teacher in American academia for more than half a century. He published hundreds of original papers, articles and books covering a wide range of interrelated subjects—from statistical variance, to systems and systems thinking, to human psychology.
Beginning in the early 1980s, Dr. Deming used his infamous Red Bead Experiment to clearly and dramatically illustrate several points about poor management practices, including several of the Seven Deadly Diseases, ...
William Edwards Deming (1900-1993) described himself as a teacher of a theory of management. He called it Management for Quality . This may come as a surprise to those who think of him as purely a statistical quality “guru”.
Deming believed that 80–85% of quality (or lack thereof) was due to management. The chairman of a large Department of Pathology recently stated: “Everyone in my department is concerned about quality”—as if there were no opportunities for improvement in health care because everyone was already making their best effort.
That industrial expert, W. Edwards Deming, taught Japan’s manufacturers how to produce top quality products economically. The Japanese used that knowledge to turn the global economy on its head and beat U.S. industry at its own game.
W. Edwards Deming was an advisor, consultant, author, and teacher to some of the most influential businessmen, corporations, and scientific pioneers of business process reengineering.