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This page was created by Jim
Clauson on 05OCT97 and last updated 21MAY01.
Contents, images, and structure Copyrighted by the
Deming Electronic Network, 1995-2001 (unless otherwise noted). All rights
reserved.
General Philosophical Essays
Compares the changes in medicine when germs were
discovered by Louis Pasteur with the changes that should be made in management
following the lead of W. Edwards Deming. Useful for catching the attention
of skeptics.
Quality Applications in Industry
This essay was first published by Tribus in 1981,
just after he had met Dr. Deming. It has been reproduced in several
languages and is now considered a classic in the field. It is intended
to introduce Deming's ideas to a skeptical audience without need for technical
explanations.
Discussion of how Deming's ideas were utilized in
Japan in a number of companies that had won the Deming Prize.
A review of Deming's life and contributions from
graduate school days to the last years of his life.(Given in late 1992)
Discusses how it is that you become lean by being
very good You don't become good by becoming lean.
The interactions of the technical system, the social
system and the managerial system in an enterprise determine the culture.
All three systems are 'boxed in' by the paradigms inculcated by education.
How to deploy a policy through a company and be
assured that the people hear what you intended to say, at all levels.
Further remarks on "Reducing Deming's 14 Points
to Practice" based on another visit to Japan.
Questions a leader can raise which help focus people's
attention on quality improvement.
Reflections on a common problem. Strategies are
reviewed beyond the obvious one, "Write a new resume".
How to understand Boss-speak on the subject of quality.
The analogy between a Disk Operating System (Dos,
Windows, etc.) and the way the organizational brain works.
A list of things to look at when reviewing an enterprise's
quality effort.
A brief review of Deming's philosophy of management.
Points made in a congressional hearing on technological
competitiveness.
The eleven links that have to be in place to make
quality a strategy. Starting with leadership, an aim, a vision, a statement
of values, training, rewards, etc., etc.
More observations from the field.
The indicators you can observe in a walk through.
Changing the review process so that it helps people
and amplifies their potential contributions. Applying the PDSA cycle to
the improvement process itself.
Lessons learned from companies that have been successful
in changing themselves.
A philosophical treatment of the fundamental ideas
in mathematics and logic that undergird much of what we do in quality management.
This essay explains "Deployment Flow Charting" by
way of an example drawn from the newspaper industry. It has two purposes:
1) To illustrate quality in a service industry and 2) to show the power
of deployment flow charting when a process is inherently complex
Tribus: "My objective is to find the most important methods that the Bata system of management can teach today's entrepreneurs."
Quality and Cognitive Modifiability Applications
in Education
Letters from Jerusalem
Diary of attendance at Mediated Learning sessions,
with observations on bright children given short shrift by the educational
system.
Essays on Education:
A matrix of learning goals and accomplishments to
be used by learner and teacher to judge progress and to decide what to
do next.
Deming's ideas on management and Feuerstein's ideas
on improving learning ability fit nicely together to define school improvement.
The story of the first school in the world to adopt
quality principles and put to work in essentially every classroom. How
they did it and what happened as a result.
A discussion of how to apply quality management
in schools of engineering and business.
What to do and what not to do when transporting
ideas from industry to the classroom. Keep in mind that the student is
NOT a product.
What happens when quality methods are adopted in
schools.
An elaboration on the concepts of quality in education.
Proposals for restructuring the US Department of
Education and the Departments of Education of the several states to make
them useful in the improvement of education instead of barriers to progress.
Because there is no agreement on the aim of education,
the system flounders. This paper proposes an aim and describes what it
takes to implement it.
A discussion of how to consider the entire educational
system, preschool to adult education as a system, setting of priorities
regarding what to include and what to leave out, the relation between brain
research and quality management practices in education.
Papers that Myron Tribus has found particularly influential:
This contribution by Ivan Webb is a slight paraphrasing
of the information he gives to the staff of the Reiverside Primary School
in Launceston, Tasmania. I urge all who are serious about quality in education
to read his analysis of quality in education and to go and do likewise.
Myron Tribus
Community Quality
By Dr. Kathy Lusk, Dr. Myron Tribus, Carole and
David Schwinn. Based on a talk Dr. Tribus gave at the William G. Hunter
conference 19APR89; updated 1998 by Dr. Tribus.
Acknowledgements:
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