Lack of knowledge… that is the problem.
W. EDWARDS DEMINGInnovation comes from the producer – not from the customer.
More W. Edwards Deming Quotes
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Declining productivity and quality means your unit production costs stay high but you don’t have as much to sell.
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You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
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It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don’t know what to copy.
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We are here to make another world.
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In Japan, a company worker’s position is secure. He is retrained for another job if his present job is eliminated by productivity improvement.
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All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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The prevailing – and foolish – attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he’s managing.
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If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition.
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Customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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