Deming in 1980 LO5250

Dr. Ivan Blanco (BLANCO@BU4090.BARRY.EDU)
Wed, 31 Jan 1996 9:18:32 -0500 (EST)

Replying to LO5037 --

> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 13:23:24 -0500
> From: rluttman@zork.tiac.net (Bob Luttman)

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> I don't know if Deming every voiced an opinion on LO,but Idon't think he -
> or other TQM practitioners - have many serious disagreements.
>
> Bob Luttman

I don't think that Deming ever called anything Organizational Learning, or
a learning organization, or anything like it. But, if we look closer to
what he advocated we might see that TQM/CQI, when applied in an effective
way, then we see organizational learning. In one of the cases used in the
1980 documentary "If Japan Can, ...", the Nashua Paper Company, one can
see collective learning taking place. I don't believe that TQM can be
effectively applied without the application of come notions related to
organizational learning, because it becomes only a fad.

Ivan

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