RE: Lack of Deming Philosophy in Education

["Mack, Wayne" <wayne.mack@pec.com>]

Would someone care to expound on the point being made in the message copied
below?  

I tend towards the opposite view; that it would be a fatal flaw to require
systems to be dependent upon externals.  It is only by bounding a system
that one has any chance of understanding the system, much less implementing
any improvement.

Why is limiting the scope of a system a problem?

Wayne Mack
Wayne.Mack@PEC.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Bacal
To: 'den.list@deming.ces.clemson.edu'
Sent: 9/28/2003 5:07 PM
Subject: RE: Lack of Deming Philosophy in Education

Another flaw, and one that I think is somewhat fatal is that one 
cannot understand a system unless one understands the system in which 
it exists, and the bigger one beyond that and so on. While it is 
worthwhile improving a local system, without affecting the larger 
systems in which the local one is embedded, only very limited 
progress is possible.