The Deming Algorithm (challenge to Steve Prevette)

[Øgland, Petter <petter.ogland@skatteetaten.no>]

Steven Prevette responded to me complimenting him as being one of the few who actually seemed to have understood Deming.  I have read some of Steve's articles in Quality Progress and on the Internet, and each time I'm equally impressed, and I think to myself, here is a man who eats his own medicine.  This is a man who knows what he is talking about.

I would like to challenge Steve on the question of how to transform a worst of the worst organization into a best of the best organization by presenting us with the simplest possible algorithm for installing and cultivating the Deming philosophy.  What is the shortest possible algorithm for doing this, do you think, given that both management and organizatonal culture is beyond hopelessness and you are an insider with absolutely no formal organizational power.

Petter