Deming’s Japanese Influence
I have added a link (on the lower right) to a copy of Deming’s speech to Japanese management given at the Mount Hakone Conference Center in August 1950. Ichiro Ishikawa (Kaoru Ishikawa’s father) estimated that top management from corporations representing 75% of the corporate wealth of Japan were present learned from this speech. So it [...]
Get It?
A recent book, “Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization” reads like an obituary of American industry. The loss of huge industries like steel and truck building, the wasting of entire cities like Flint, Michigan or Youngstown, Ohio are described. Where did these industries go? More importantly, what happened to the jobs?
Designed Experiments Considerations
Designed Experiments Planning Guide This is a planning guide for experimentation that I drew up for a class for a client. It assumes some knowledge of statistical terminology, but not much and the terms not obvious can be easily looked up. Such terms are used here in their ‘special’ sense and not in their ‘day [...]
