Deming’s 14 Points Revisited: Part 2

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

This post picks up on Part 1 and examines the first of Deming’s 14 Management Points. As I said in the first post, I believe Deming’s 14 Points have great resonance in today’s economy, even if his original language seems a little stilted in today’s world of Tweets and sound bites. Let’s take his first [...]

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Deming’s 14 Points Revisited: Part 1

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I was at a speaker at an nGenera Executive Summit recently where one of my co-speakers, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University cited Deming’s “Drive Out Fear” dictum, from his 14 Management Points. This reminded me of the genius and timelessness behind Deming’s teachings, and inspired me to tackle a couple of [...]

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New York City Impressions – An Atlantan Brit Moves to the Big Apple!

Posted on October 26, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

Having just moved to New York City for a 3 month stint, I thought it might be interesting to post a series of reflections on my experiences here.  For context, I was born and grew up in London, (North Kensington).  As a young teenager, I moved to the London suburbs, moving a little further out [...]

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IT’s Top 10 Interests – Why the Perennial Oldies?

Posted on October 15, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I was perusing the September 15 issue of CIO Magazine (ok, I’d been on vacation for nearly 4 weeks, and was catching up on my massive reading pile!) when I noticed the chart recreated to the left.  (Note:  I could not find the chart in the electronic edition – only the paper magazine.  Also note, [...]

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Quick Reflections on an Executive Summit

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Vaughan Merlyn

I’ve had the privilege of being a speaker at one of nGenera‘s Executive Summit’s around the theme of “Restarting the Business Growth Engine.”  This is being held at the lovely Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort at the Santa Anna Pueblo in New Mexico. My topic was “Leveraging Web 2.0 to Discover and Exploit New Business Strategies.”  [...]

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