Crisis in Japan?--Out of the Crisis, one more time on leadership in SHE

[demingtw <demingtw@ms17.hinet.net>]

Dear DENizens,

This note was inspired by reading An Application of Interactive
Planning, as Appendix B of Re-Creating the Corporation by R. L. Ackoff
(OUP, 1999).

One of Dr. Deming's favorite charts is the  numbers of fires per month
in a business establishment. (p.324, Out of the Crisis, among others). I
read this chart more than 16 years ago and I only started to think
seriously about it recently. We'll have a special report on Deming
Philosophy and SHE, your contribution is welcomed.

How the so called one of the  leaders  in SHE( Safety, Health and
Environment) 'read' this kind of 'system behaviors' with so called
'structure-process-event' language and various management 'tools'( in
the report non explicit terminology, with so-called 'step-change' of the
Organizational Effectiveness)?

Under the DuPont's new slogan The Goal is Zero for the SHE functions of
various SBUs. The so-called The DuPont Commitment is a re-creating of ZD
with new fads of 'system age tools'?

I don't know. When I was trained in DuPont Japan for SHE back 1988 or
1989, one thing I like to explore is that Hitachi's cost-effective SHE
programs. (My data shown Hitachi approach is 'better' in safety numbers.
But Hitachi is mainly operated in Japan which regulations are or might
be different than USA.)

I write down this note for reminding that most time we are 'organization
man' in new sense and we are ignorant in many areas. But one thing know,
that the concept of The Uncommon Man( by Crawford H. Greenewal, 1902-93)
might be gone foreever.

Hanching Chung
http://www.deming.com.tw