John Bergmann The Deming Series, Point Eleven Welcome back, it's Monday and I hope yours is off to a good start. Today is day eight of my 14 day effort to briefly cover each one of Deming's 14 points. I started the 1st of April if you'd like to g...
John Bergmann The Deming Series, Point Ten Welcome to the blog and this 14-point series. This is the Sunday edition and I promise no preaching today. If you're just coming across the series, I started on April 1 with Deming's first point. No w...
John Bergmann The Deming Series, Point Nine If you've just found this series, the first one is from April first. They aren't in order, I'm wandering through them similar to a blind chicken would a minefield. I hope you find some interesting tho...
John Bergmann The Deming Series, Point Thirteen Hello and welcome to my Deming's 14 points blog series. I was inspired to do a blog post every day for each of the 14 points. I am trying to keep them relatively short reads and include how I have bui...
John Bergmann The Deming Series Point Six Welcome, or welcome back, to my series on Deming's 14 points. As an exercise to illustrate the foundations of my Start. Somewhere. systems I decided to write a blog about each of Deming's points every...
John Bergmann The Deming Series, Point Seven Welcome back to my 14 day series on Deming's 14 points. Today we're going through point seven; instituting leadership. If you've read the previous installments you will have noticed this list isn't "i...
John Bergmann The Deming Series, Point Two Welcome to my series. If you're new, I'm posting one write up about Deming's 14 points every day for as many days. If you'd like to start at the beginning, jump over to the Where to Start main page an...
John Bergmann The Deming Series, Point One My highest level professional satisfaction comes from removing the stupid from the day to day work of my colleagues, clients, and friends. The place you work exists to solve a customer problem. The so...
John Bergmann Priorities Emergency response is a critical function in modern societies. One would expect such organizations to have deployment processes emphasizing highest priority action first based on event conditions. In ...
John Bergmann The Dreaded Management Review Management review. To some, these are dirty words. To others they represent a boring meeting. Perhaps even one they can skip. It may even be a painful meeting where they have to face hard realities ab... leadership quality systems
John Bergmann What does Start. Somewhere. do? Start. Somewhere. is a tool for you to get into process improvements at your company. What exactly does that mean? I have gone through a few levels of explanation and I wanted to back this up with a g... quality systems start somewhere
John Bergmann Receipt, Process, & Handle Effectively Material handling, at least in the machine centers I have been around, is a bastard child when process improvement people come around. Even the neat and tidy plants still use those ugly, difficult to ...
