ASQ Deming's guest appearances

ASQ Deming

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Louis Altazan

Jim Benson

Ed Baker

Alfie Kohn

Bill Cooper

Doug Hall

Tim Higgins

LISA SNYDER

David Langford

Keith Sparkjoy

Paula Marshall

Phil Monroe

Brian Hoff

Kevin Cahill

Lynda Finn

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In our 5th interview podcast of 2019, Alan Winlow, MBE, former Managing Director of Yorkshire Brick Company, Continuous Improvement Director at Marshalls PLC, and 2019 ASQ Deming Medal Recipient, offers insights on his efforts to lead a Deming transformation. (This is Tripp's first interview with Alan) Highlights include:  Opening quote from Myron Tribus, “If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you will continue to get what you’ve always got” In the late 1980s, while serving as Managing Director of the Yorkshire Brick Company (YBC), employment in the UK brick industry plunged from 14K to 8K employees and plants were closing Question at hand, "How to survive in a labor-intensive business?" How had the Japanese captured critical UK business segments? Started to read about Dr. Deming and attend British Deming Association conferences Discovered sources of variation and PDSA, plus the importance of data Found the majority of variation came from manufacturing equipment and raw materials for the bricks Discovered how to change the brick manufacturing process to improve brick uniformity Began to meet regularly with YBC's production team to continue to improve brick uniformity, savings in water use, energy use, and discarded bricks Discovered mental models, including the Taguchi Loss Function Explored how to remove barriers within workforce, everyone came on staff Began to understand what his job was, including reading books and seeking new learning Alan led consulting visits to China in 1987 to assist in developing the Land Fill Gas business.  The Chinese were extremely interested in the landfill gas abstraction at YBC and sent no less than 8 delegations to visit the Yorkshire site. Alan was invited to visit by the Mayor of the city of Anshan. Teaming with local schools and universities, a local jail, and a county council to share lessons learned within YBC, including environmental projects Yorkshire Brick was honored in 1991 for contributions to environmental causes In 2000, Alan was honored by Queen Elizabeth as a Member of the British Empire for his leadership within YBC Never met Dr. Deming at BDA events; met Myron Tribus on many occasions Comments on challenges in implementing the Deming Philosophy Continued relevance of the Deming Philosophy today   

In our 5th interview podcast of 2019, Alan Winlow, MBE, former Managing Director of Yorkshire Brick Company, Continuous Improvement Director at Marshalls PLC, and <a href="https://demingalliance.org/resources/news" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2019 ASQ Deming Medal Recipient</a>, offers insights on his efforts to lead a Deming transformation. (This is Tripp's first interview with Alan) Highlights include: <ul> <li>Opening quote from Myron Tribus, “If you continue to do what you’ve always done, you will continue to get what you’ve always got”</li> <li>In the late 1980s, while serving as Managing Director of the Yorkshire Brick Company (YBC), employment in the UK brick industry plunged from 14K to 8K employees and plants were closing</li> <li>Question at hand, "How to survive in a labor-intensive business?"</li> <li>How had the Japanese captured critical UK business segments?</li> <li>Started to read about Dr. Deming and attend British Deming Association conferences</li> <li>Discovered sources of variation and PDSA, plus the importance of data</li> <li>Found the majority of variation came from manufacturing equipment and raw materials for the bricks</li> <li>Discovered how to change the brick manufacturing process to improve brick uniformity</li> <li>Began to meet regularly with YBC's production team to continue to improve brick uniformity, savings in water use, energy use, and discarded bricks</li> <li>Discovered mental models, including the Taguchi Loss Function</li> <li>Explored how to remove barriers within workforce, everyone came on staff</li> <li>Began to understand what his job was, including reading books and seeking new learning</li> <li>Alan led consulting visits to China in 1987 to assist in developing the Land Fill Gas business.  The Chinese were extremely interested in the landfill gas abstraction at YBC and sent no less than 8 delegations to visit the Yorkshire site. Alan was invited to visit by the Mayor of the city of Anshan.</li> <li>Teaming with local schools and universities, a local jail, and a county council to share lessons learned within YBC, including environmental projects</li> <li>Yorkshire Brick was honored in 1991 for contributions to environmental causes</li> <li>In 2000, Alan was honored by Queen Elizabeth as a Member of the British Empire for his leadership within YBC</li> <li>Never met Dr. Deming at BDA events; met Myron Tribus on many occasions</li> <li>Comments on challenges in implementing the Deming Philosophy</li> <li>Continued relevance of the Deming Philosophy today  </li> </ul>

Alan Winlow, MBE, former Managing Director of Yorkshire Brick Company, Continuous Improvement Director at Marshalls PLC, and 2019 ASQ Deming Medal Recipient

In our May 2017 podcast, his sixth session with Tripp (1st, 2nd,  3rd, 4th,  5th), David Langford, author, consultant, President, Ingenium Schools, and,  2017 ASQ Deming Medal Recipient, offers insights on his efforts to lead a Deming transformation within Ingenium Schools. In his latest podcast, David reflects on 31 years of learning and applying the Deming philosophy to enrich society, with a focus on advancing education systems.   Beginning with his first conversation with Dr. Deming in 1986, when he personally answered David’s phone call from Sitka, Alaska, he has been on a personal learning journey, including mentored from Dr. Deming.   With encouragement from Dr. Deming, David reached out to Myron Tribus, who traveled to Sitka to learn more about David’s efforts to bring Dr. Deming’s theory of management to his high school education system.   Soon thereafter, David and Myron were speaking together at conferences about their efforts to improve education systems, using a Deming lens. Fast forward to 2016, when David was selected to serve as president of Ingenium Schools and shift from “living vicariously as a consultant” (with Langford Learning) to “get back to the laboratory” of an education system in a full-time capacity.  In this month’s podcast, David goes down memory lane with Tripp to explore topics such as:   His first phone call with Dr. Deming  Collaborating with his mentor, Myron Tribus A 25+ year career as a consultant with Langford Learning An offer from founder and previous president, Glenn Noreen, to join Ingenium Schools Daily Innovation at Ingenium Schools, with 160+ employees Have the fundamentals in education changed? Finding meaning in the Pythagorean Theorem Profound Learning Experiences Looking for the smallest things which can have the biggest impact Making decisions in a school system, both with and without the System of Profound Knowledge Running meetings with "our" agenda vs. "the boss's" agenda What teachers can do in a class room, in the absence of pre-determined answers to their questions When teachers shift roles from managing behaviors to mentoring Shifting from 1-way to 2-way conversations “Ingenium Huddles” Receiving the 2017 Deming Medal from the American Society for Quality  For more information about David's current work with Ingenium Schools, please visit ingeniumfoundation.org

In our May 2017 podcast, his sixth session with Tripp (<a href="http://podcast.deming.org/webpage/2014/07" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">1st</a>, <a href="http://podcast.deming.org/david-p-langford-ceo-of-langford-learning-inc-where-is-all-the-joy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2nd</a>, <a href="http://podcast.deming.org/stop-doing-the-wrong-this-righter-to-start-changing-the-education-system" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> 3rd</a>, <a href="http://podcast.deming.org/webpage/2016/04" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">4th</a>, <a href="http://podcast.deming.org/david-p-langford-ceo-of-langford-learning-inc-where-is-all-the-joy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> 5th</a>), David Langford, author, consultant, President, <a href="http://www.ingeniumschools.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ingenium Schools</a>, and, <a href="http://asq.org/newsroom/news-releases/2017/20170419-honor-award-recipients.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> 2017 ASQ Deming Medal Recipient</a>, offers insights on his efforts to lead a Deming transformation within Ingenium Schools. In his latest podcast, David reflects on 31 years of learning and applying the Deming philosophy to enrich society, with a focus on advancing education systems.   Beginning with his first conversation with Dr. Deming in 1986, when he personally answered David’s phone call from Sitka, Alaska, he has been on a personal learning journey, including mentored from Dr. Deming.   With encouragement from Dr. Deming, David reached out to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Tribus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Myron Tribus</a>, who traveled to Sitka to learn more about David’s efforts to bring Dr. Deming’s theory of management to his high school education system.   Soon thereafter, David and Myron were speaking together at conferences about their efforts to improve education systems, using a Deming lens. Fast forward to 2016, when David was selected to serve as president of Ingenium Schools and shift from “living vicariously as a consultant” (with <a href="http://www.langfordlearning.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Langford Learning</a>) to “get back to the laboratory” of an education system in a full-time capacity.  In this month’s podcast, David goes down memory lane with Tripp to explore topics such as:  <ul> <li>His first phone call with Dr. Deming</li> <li><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=myron+tribus+david+langford&amp;rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS728US734&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjXzLae1YjUAhUiw1QKHZa0Do8QsAQIMg&amp;biw=1244&amp;bih=624&amp;dpr=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Collaborating with his mentor, Myron Tribus</a></li> <li>A 25+ year career as a consultant with Langford Learning</li> <li>An offer from founder and previous president, Glenn Noreen, to join Ingenium Schools</li> <li>Daily Innovation at Ingenium Schools, with 160+ employees</li> <li>Have the fundamentals in education changed?</li> <li>Finding meaning in the Pythagorean Theorem</li> <li>Profound Learning Experiences</li> <li>Looking for the smallest things which can have the biggest impact</li> <li>Making decisions in a school system, both with and without the <a href="https://deming.org/management-system/sopk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">System of Profound Knowledge</a></li> <li>Running meetings with "our" agenda vs. "the boss's" agenda</li> <li>What teachers can do in a class room, in the absence of pre-determined answers to their questions</li> <li>When teachers shift roles from managing behaviors to mentoring</li> <li>Shifting from 1-way to 2-way conversations</li> <li>“Ingenium Huddles”</li> <li>Receiving the 2017 Deming Medal from the American Society for Quality</li> </ul> For more information about David's current work with Ingenium Schools, please visit <a href="http://ingeniumfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ingeniumfoundation.org</a>

David Langford, author, consultant, President, Ingenium Charter Schools, and 2017 ASQ Deming Medal Recipient, "Back to the Learning Laboratory"