Quote by W. Edwards Deming
Putting out fires is not improvement of the process. Neither is discovery and removal of a special cause detected by a point out of control. This only puts the process back to where it should have been in the first place.
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Full text from page 51: Putting out fires is not improvement of the process. Neither is discovery and removal of a special cause detected by a point out of control. This only puts the process back to where it should have been in the first place (an insight of Dr. Joseph M. Juran, years ago).
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Book: Out of the Crisis
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problem solving, systems thinking