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 Technical Basis for Start. Somewhere. Start. Somewhere. is a program based on years of trial, error, and success with process development tools. I'll go through each component of the system and the primary foundational tools it employs. W... quality systems start somewhere
John Bergmann Start. Somewhere. Continued Part two of my "Start. Somewhere.” series of writing. How. Continuing where I left off, I want to go through the how. To summarize, if you’re not familiar with the first section, first we thought abou... quality systems start somewhere
John Bergmann Start. Somewhere. Everywhere I have been employed has resisted change. A pretty normal situation really. People like to be stable. Consistent. Change represents fear, discomfort, and risk. We humans love to avoid all t... quality systems start somewhere