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by radcon 2557 days ago
They should call this "The Deming Way" since most of it sounds identical to Deming's management philosophy and he taught Toyota back in the 1960s[1]. His system also had 14 points, which probably isn't a coincidence[2].

[1] https://blog.deming.org/2016/10/toyotas-management-history/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

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Pretty sure that Deming and Taiichi Ohno both are responsible for the creation of these ideas, and they both learned from each other and improved. Which is why eventually it looks very similar looking at it from either side.
Don't forget Japan even has an award named after Deming for quality!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming_Prize

Thanks for sharing! Good read
Thanks for reading! I think Deming is extremely under-appreciated.

It seems like Six Sigma is all anyone talks about in terms of management philosophy these days...

Deming's work has been highly influential within the DevOps community:

https://itrevolution.com/deming-to-devops-part-1/

I agree, you might enjoy the Deming subreddit

  https://www.reddit.com/r/Deming/
with links to applying his ideas on management.