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  2. W. Edwards Deming - Wikipedia

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    In 1993, Deming published his final book, The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education, which included the System of Profound Knowledge and the 14 Points for Management. It also contained educational concepts involving group-based teaching without grades, as well as management without individual merit or performance reviews.

  3. Fourteen Points - Wikipedia

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    The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be ... The parts of the 14 Points relating to the Near East where the emphasis was upon ...

  4. Deming regression - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, Deming regression, named after W. Edwards Deming, is an errors-in-variables model that tries to find the line of best fit for a two-dimensional data set. It differs from the simple linear regression in that it accounts for errors in observations on both the x - and the y - axis.

  5. Quality management - Wikipedia

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    W. Edwards Deming championed Shewhart's ideas in Japan from 1950 onwards. He is probably best known for his management philosophy establishing quality, productivity, and competitive position. He has formulated 14 points of attention for managers, which are a high-level abstraction of many of his insights. They should be interpreted by learning ...

  6. If Japan Can... Why Can't We? - Wikipedia

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    The report details how the Japanese captured the world automotive and electronics markets by following Deming's advice to practice continual improvement and think of manufacturing as a system, not as bits or pieces. Crawford-Mason went on to produce; in collaboration with Deming, a 14-hour documentary series detailing his methods through ...

  7. Common cause and special cause (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Deming observed that in any forecasting activity, the population is that of future events while the sampling frame is, inevitably, some subset of historical events. Deming held that the disjoint nature of population and sampling frame was inherently problematic once the existence of special-cause variation was admitted, rejecting the general ...

  8. Theory Z of Ouchi - Wikipedia

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    "Japanese Management" and Theory Z itself were based on Dr. W. Edwards Deming's famous "14 points" [citation needed]. Deming, an American scholar whose management and motivation theories were more popular outside the United States, helped lay the foundation of Japanese organizational development during their expansion in the world economy in ...

  9. Walter A. Shewhart - Wikipedia

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    Walter Andrew Shewhart (pronounced like "shoe-heart"; March 18, 1891 – March 11, 1967) was an American physicist, engineer and statistician. He is sometimes also known as the grandfather of statistical quality control and also related to the Shewhart cycle.