Deming, Profound Knowledge, and Global Sustainability

There is a need for change in how we look at business, industrialization, and the planet

Fri, 09/20/2013 - 14:49

Editor’s note: Andrew McKeon will be a guest of Quality Digest Live on Friday, September 27, 2013, at 11 a.m. Pacific/2 p.m. Eastern.
McKeon will be speaking at The Deming Institute’s Annual Fall Conference, Oct. 18–20, 2013, in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Businesses today are moving from a world of tactical problems (e.g., meeting the demands for speed, analysis, specialization, and eliminating uncertainty) to a world of strategic problems (developing patience, insight, engagement across disciplines, and accepting uncertainty). Solving these strategic problems will require a different decision process, skill set, and management paradigm than called for by tactical responses to problems.

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Submitted by shrikale on Wed, 09/25/2013 - 12:46

Dear Mr. McKeon,

I thoroughly enjoyed your post and appreciate the connection you drew between Dr. Deming's System of Profound Knowledge and global sustainability. I hope that many will read your post and reflect on it to understand the message and its implications.

As an aside, in my journey to think in terms of systems, I discovered that the systems I thought about were often limited by the scale at which I think. More often than not that scale is local and immediate. But, awareness of super-systems has broadened my horizon and led to greater appreciation of their dynamics.

Best regards,

Shrikant Kalegaonkar (Twitter: @shrikale; LinkedIn: shrikale)

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