Re: Ford embraces Six Sigma

[John <jsdwd@ksc.th.com>]

on 7/5/01 3:32 am, SOPKrules@aol.com at SOPKrules@aol.com wrote:

> Del Nelson:
> 
> I am well aware of the work Dr. Deming contributed in The New Economics.  The
> portrayal of systems does not include the complex network of commitments that
> drive action.  Dr. Deming simply did not have the distinctions with which to
> view a system as a complex network of coordinated commitments.

May I ask how you know what Dr. Deming was or was not aware of?   I would
say, based on my listening to him, that he was well aware of the 'complex
network of commitments; to which you refer.  Else, why would he be so
insistent on starting at the top.  I'm not sure what you mean when you say
'...needed to drive action.'
> 
> My contention is that I, in my work with organizations, have found the work
> Dr. Deming did in need of other elements to be more useful in terms of
> achieving transformational results.  I owe much of my professional success to
> Dr. Deming and some of the people who were close to him.

I also am intensely curious of those who have 'achieved transformational
results' as it seems so rare.   What results is it that you have achieved
and how do you feel that your intervention helped to bring that about?

Thanks,

John S. Dowd
jsdwd@ksc.th.com