W. Edwards Deming, Joyce Orsini, Diana Deming Cahill

The Essential Deming

Leadership Principles from the Father of Quality
Ed. by Joyce Orsini and Diana Deming Cahill

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers articles, papers, lectures, and notes touching on a wide range of topics, but which focus on the author's overriding message: quality and operations are all about systems, not individual performance; the system has to be designed so that the worker can perform well.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 154mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9780071790222
• ISBN-10: 0071790225
• Artikelnr.: 35710500

Autorenporträt

JOYCE NILSSON ORSINI, PhD, is an associate professor of management systems at Fordham University, the director of Fordham's Deming Scholars MBA program, and president of The W. Edwards Deming Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The World Is Being Ruined by Best Efforts
(Best Efforts Without Guidance Lead to Failure)
2. Quality Is Made in the Boardroom
(Only Top Management Can Make the Decisions Necessary to Assure Quality)
3. By What Method?
(How Can We Bring About Improvement?)
4. There Is No Such Thing as Instant Pudding
(Deming's 14 Points for Management)
5. A System Must Be Managed
(People Are Part of the System)
6. There Is No Substitute for Knowledge
(Information Is Not Knowledge)
7. Management Is Prediction
(Statistical Thinking Is Required)
8. What Happened in Japan?
Index
About the Editor