Specifications and Inspection; some history

At the end of the 18th century, an inventor worked on two projects that would have a profound affect on the tumultuous years to follow in America. Eli Whitney was a blacksmith who surprised his neighbours and family by enrolling in Yale. He was unable to get work in his native north and headed south [...]

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Posted Under: General Management,Statistical Thinking
This post was written by John on November 19, 2008 Comments (1)

The Deming Chain Reaction

The so-called Deming Chain Reaction was actually borrowed from a model that Walter Shewhart developed.  He probably borrowed the idea from another thinker.  Basically the idea was for management to move away from thinking about quality as a desirable outcome, to thinking about quality as a competitive strategy. Competitive strategy as a concept has been [...]

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Posted Under: Statistical Thinking
This post was written by John on November 8, 2008 Comments (2)