Remembrance

[Lloyd Provost <lprovost@fc.net>]

Fortune (Oct. 30, 2000 U.S. issue) had a two page article remembering
Dr. Deming on his 100th birthday. The article was written by Andrea
Gabor who authored the book about Dr. Deming, "The Man Who Discovered
Quality", in 1990.

Gabor differentiates Deming's work from others in quality management
with his emphasis on "teamwork, cross-dapartment collaboration, rigorous
training, and working closer with suppliers..."

The last paragraph of the article has an interesting message for the DEN
members:
....He spent most of his professional life working out of the basement
... cultivating a loose-knit group of hangers-on who were not up to
perpetuating his legacy. Consequently Deming's name has been all but
forgotten in influential management circles. Yet the quality movement
that Deming inspired is very much alive. It endures in the popularity of
Six Sigma, which borrows liberally from his work...."

Lloyd Provost
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