CEO of famed Louisville Slugger says Deming principles 'key to success in hard times'
CINCINNATI, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The W. Edwards Deming Institute®, a name synonymous with quality in management, is offering one of its prestigious 2 1/2 day seminars next week in the Queen City on October 19-21. The seminar will provide participants with proven principles to successfully navigate through today's crisis while instituting practices to ensure long term success. "I signed up for the seminar thinking I was going to learn how to make quality baseball bats and I learned quickly that it was about quality in management," says Jack Hillerich, CEO of the world famous Slugger baseball bat company in Louisville, Kentucky. "Dr. Deming's ways helped transform my company into what it is today. I can't say enough good things about Dr. W. Edwards Deming." Jack Hillerich has been on the Board of the W. Edwards Deming Institute for almost a decade and his company is going strong and like Dr. Deming's philosophy, is world renowned, this time for manufacturing quality baseball bats that are sold in huge quantities to the major leagues.
In 1980, after viewing the ground-breaking NBC documentary, If Japan Can, Why Can't We?, Hillerich signed up for a Deming seminar. "And it has never been the same," he says. Most recently, during tough times, Hillerich called on the Deming's principles to help work with the company employees closely during cutbacks. "Deming talks about transformation. It has to be a transformation and a collaboration. Your workers need to understand where you are coming from. Dr. Deming also said, no matter what you do, stay in business, and keep providing jobs. He wasn't so rigid. He said to keep it going no matter what you do," added Hillerich.
Why are Deming's ideas the answer? Dr. Deming ignited the worldwide 'quality' revolution and his legacy lives on today. In 1950, in an effort to revive Japan's ailing economy, Dr. Deming was invited there. Japan's industry was in complete ruins and "made in Japan" was synonymous with poor quality. Over the next three years, management executives controlling 80% of the capital in Japan attended his many seminars, and Deming revitalized Japanese industry and their economy. In recognition, the Emperor of Japan awarded Deming the highly coveted Second Order Medal of the Sacred Treasure. Back home, Deming quickly became the major force behind the "quality control" effort in corporate America and the voice of quality worldwide.
"Deming understood that quality was not only the answer but also the outcome of better leadership, management and practice," says Kevin Cahill, Dr. Deming's grandson and Vice President of The Deming Institute. "My grandfather recognized and predicted the impending global crisis years ago and here we are today." Through their seminars, The Deming Institute identifies practices creating problems in an organization and introduces attendees to effective management practices that will lead them on a path of transformation. "My grandfather's legacy continues in so many ways today. This seminar is only the beginning," added Cahill.
"Out of the Crisis," the W. Edwards Deming Institute's Cincinnati Seminar will feature Deming Institute trained facilitators and will be held October 19-21, 2009 at The Millennium Hotel in Cincinnati. (150 West Fifth Street Cincinnati, OH 45202) For more information, or to register, visit www.deming.org.
SOURCE The W. Edwards Deming Institute
Kevin Edwards Cahill of Deming Institute, +1-310-377-6308, Kevin@deming.org; or Claire Sanders Swift for Deming Institute, +1-202-333-3316, claire@clairemedia.com
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“To be honest,” the president said in the Rose Garden, “I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who have been honored by this prize, men and women who’ve inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.”
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Banquet Speech
Elias Canetti's speech at the Nobel Banquet, December 10, 1981 (in German)
Einer Stadt, die man kennt, verdankt man viel und einer, die man kennen möchte, wenn man sich lange vergeblich nach ihr sehnt, vielleicht noch mehr. Aber es gibt, glaube ich, im Leben eines Menschen auch besondere Stadtgottheiten, durch Drohung, Unermesslichkeit oder Verklärung ausgezeichnete Gebilde. Die drei, die es für mich waren, sind Wien, London und Zürich.
A city known to us, we owe a lot and who wants to know when one longs for her in vain for a long time, maybe even more. But there are, I believe in human life also special city deities, by threat, or glorification immensity excellent structure. The three who were there for me, are Vienna, London and Zurich. 著名的城市給我們，我們欠了很多，誰知道她渴望一個徒勞的很長一段時間，甚至更多。但是，我相信在人們的生活也特別市神，通過威脅，或美化袤結構優良。這三個誰在那裡對我來說，是維也納，倫敦和蘇黎世。
It was of a quite different sort, one nicely summed up about a century ago by the French mining engineer and self-taught sociologist, Frédéric Le Play: The most important thing to come out of the mine, he wrote, is the miner. In much the same spirit, it can be said that the most important thing to come out of Columbia sociology back then was the student.
Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme
The MOST Programme's primary purpose is to transfer relevant Social Sciences research findings and data to decision-makers and other stakeholders.
MOST focuses on building efficient bridges between research, policy and practice. The programme promotes a culture of evidence-based policy-making – nationally, regionally and internationally. As the only UNESCO programme that fosters and promotes social science research, it is placed in a pivotal position in the overall promotion of UNESCO's goals.
"Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two -- and only two --basic functions: marketing and innovation." (Peter Drucker)
The goal of Mr. Peters, 51, and his co-workers at International Battery, a high-tech start-up, is industrial revolution. Racing against other companies around the globe, they are on the front lines of an effort to build smaller, lighter, more powerful batteries that could help transform the American energy economy by replacing gasoline in cars and making windmills and solar cells easier to integrate into the power grid.
William Lazonick explores how technological change has interacted with the organization of work, with major consequences for national competitiveness and industrial leadership. Looking at Britain, the United States, and Japan from the nineteenth century to the present, he explains changes in their status as industrial superpowers. Lazonick stresses the importance for industrial leadership of cooperative relations between employers and shop-floor workers. Such relations permit employers to use new technologies to their maximum potential, which in turn transforms the high fixed costs inherent in these technologies into low unit costs and large market shares. Cooperative relations can also lead employers to invest in the skills of workers themselves--skills that enable shop-floor workers to influence quality as well as quantity of production.
To build cooperative shop-floor relations, successful employers have been willing to pay workers higher wages than they could have secured elsewhere in the economy. They have also been willing to offer workers long-term employment security. These policies, Lazonick argues, have not come at the expense of profits but rather have been a precondition for making profits.
Focusing particularly on the role of labor-management relations in fostering "flexible mass production" in Japan since the 1950s, Lazonick criticizes those economists and politicians who, in the face of the Japanese challenge, would rely on free markets alone to restore the international competitiveness of industry in Britain and the United States.
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Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation
Focusing on the postwar automation of the American metal-working industry--the heart of the modern industrial economy--this is a provocative study of how automation has assumed a critical role in America. David Noble argues that industrial automation--more than merely a technological
advance--is a social process that reflects very real divisions and pressures within our society. The book explains how technology is often spurred and shaped by the military, corporations, universities, and other mighty institutions. Using detailed case studies, Noble also demonstrates how
engineering design is influenced by political, economic, and sociological considerations, and how the deployment of equipment is frequently entangled with certain managerial concerns.
Synopsis:
Focusing on the postwar automation of the American metal-working industry--the heart of the modern industrial economy--this is a provocative study of how automation has assumed a critical role in America. David Noble argues that industrial automation--more than merely a technological advance--is a social process that reflects very real divisions and pressures within our society. The book explains how technology is often spurred and shaped by the military, corporations, universities, and other mighty institutions. Using detailed case studies, Noble also demonstrates how engineering design is influenced by political, economic, and sociological considerations, and how the deployment of equipment is frequently entangled with certain managerial concerns. *****
In Taichung is a hotel styled in the ' Japanese manner, and the can sleep ... Crates of Treasures At Taichung the 3000 to 4000 crates of Peiping Palace ...February 28, 1960
The Taichung school, in operation since April 15, is the third field anguage ... Although all of them have volunteered to come here, their .in Taichung is ...June 13, 1955
Many of the victims were found in Taichung and Nantou, near the epicenter. Four-story residential buildings in Taichung collapsed. ...September 21, 1999 - By JOHN KIFNER
Taichung, it is explained, was selected as the art repository because--it has a relatively dry climate and is hidden by protective hills. ...July 22, 1956
Most of the treasures, brought here from the mainland by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek s forces in 1949, are buried in deep, man-made caves near Taichung, ...September 28, 1958
In the worst-hit counties near the epicenter, Taichung and Nantou, ... In Taichung, one man who was rescued from a collapsed high-rise building said in a ...September 22, 1999 - By CALVIN SIMS
The base, just outside the city of Taichung, has the longest jet runway in the Far East. About 700 Air Force men have been transferred to Kung Kuan for ...December 15, 1965
The first morning takes one! down the west coastal plain toj Taichung. ... In Taichung, there is time for a look at the palace art treasures that were ...June 12, 1960
Some residents of Taichung, in central Taiwan, called on the Government to ... On Tuesday evening, television broadcasts showed city blocks in Taichung ...September 22, 1999
TAICHUNG, Taiwan-The Grand Ole Opry House, Le Restaurant, Jack Wang's auto dealership, a collection of drinking spots known as Bartown and dozens of other ...March 11, 1973
Rescue teams have arrived from at least eight nations, but those sifting through the rubble in Nantou, Taichung and Yunlin — the counties ...September 23, 1999
As of the end of June, a total of 12 factories had been approved for the Taichung zone, with so area of 60 acres, and Nantze, with an area of 83 acres., ...September 28, 1970
Construction of the Henry W. Luce Chapel at Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, will begin Nov. 15. Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of the United Board ...October 31, 1958
Also Wednesday, Corning said its board approved a $326 million expansion of its liquid crystal display glass factory under construction in Taichung, Taiwan. ...October 7, 2004
Several United States were 'evacuated from their homes in Taipei and Taichung Sunday night. Flood waters caused slight damage to the United States post ...August 3, 1960
Photo: About 50000 people took part in a demonstration yesterday in Taichung, Taiwan, some carrying a banner that called for Taiwan's entry into the United ...February 24, 1992
The territory entrusted to Maryknoll is the new Prefecture Apostolio of Taichung in the central part of the island. The Taichung Prefecture's the eighth ...September 3, 1950
Aerospace to make British Aerospace's regional jetliners at two locations -- in Woodford, near Manchester, and in Taichung, Taiwan. ...January 20, 1993
A large number of multi-lane roads then lead out of the downtown area in all directions. Some of them are divided by a physical barrier or median to enhance safety. These roads include Taichung Harbor Road (台中港路), Wuquan West Road (五權西路), Beitun Road (北屯路), Taiyuan Road (太原路), Hanxi Road (旱溪路), Guoguang Road (國光路), Zhongqing Road (中清路,) Wuquan South Road (五權南路) and Wenxin South Road (文心南路).
