Buffet: I will keep betting on Japan

The "ROOTS" of the Japanese are very deep and strong !

New Video Red Bead Experiment in French Language

Congratulations to Alexis Monville, mechanical engineer, partner and founder of the consulting firm Ayeb for his new video about the Red Bead Experiment.



L'expérience des billes rouges (the red bead experiment) est un atelier conçu par William Edwards Deming pour illustrer les erreurs classiques du management par rapport aux phénomènes liés à un système.


Cette vidéo montre une adaptation de cette expérience au monde du développement logiciel.

Cette expérience est brillamment interprété par Alexis Monville, ingénieur mécanicien, associé et fondateur de la société de conseil en organisation Ayeba.

La vidéo que vous regardez est une version courte de l'expérience et a été tourné le 21 octobre 2011 à Bordeaux lors de l'étape bordelaise de l'Agile Tour 2011.

Une vidéo réalisée par Covenweb

English translation by Google --

The experience of red balls (the red bead experiment) is a workshop designed by William Edwards Deming to illustrate common mistakes of management in relation tophenomena related to a system.

This video shows an adaptation of this experience the world of software development.
This experience is brilliantly played by Alexis Monville, mechanical engineer, partner and founder of the consulting firm Ayeb organization.

The video you are watching is a short version of the experiment and was shot October 21, 2011 in Bordeaux in Bordeaux step of the Agile Tour 2011.

A video made by Covenweb


Red Bead Experiment Youtube Channel

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Not New News - When All Else Fails - Fudge the Data

Deming’s Famous Red Bead Experiment With A Twist

Improve the system, distort the system, or distort the data

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n 1991, I had the privilege of attending one of W. Edwards Deming’s four-day seminars and I still proudly display the certificate of completion in my office. One of the highlights of the seminar, of course, was Deming’s famous red bead experiment. I had read about the red bead experiment, but this was the first time I saw it up close and personal. It truly was a profound moment in my professional education.

At the risk of being labeled “heretic” or “blasphemer,” my aim is to offer an improvement to the red bead experiment—or perhaps “twist” is a better word. I believe Deming would approve of my effort of continual improvement. I first thought of this enhancement while attending a workshop given by the W. Edwards Deming Institute in 2009, in Cincinnati, Ohio. In attendance was Kevin Cahill, vice president of the Deming Institute and Deming’s grandson. I shared my thoughts with Cahill and he approved of the idea. Since then, I have conducted the red bead experiment with the twist about 20 times.

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The additional lessons learned include the fact that willing workers, when faced with the need to preserve their business and livelihood, have three choices: improve the system, distort the system, or distort the data. Because the willing workers are not able to improve the system, they distort the system or the data (or both). Again, this is no new revelation to the willing workers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Steve Moore is the director of business improvement systems at Wausau Paper Corp. He holds a master's degree from the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton, Wisconsin, and has held various research and development, technical, engineering, and manufacturing positions in the paper industry for the past 35 years. He has been a student, teacher, and practitioner of statistical methods applied to real-world processes for the past 25 years.

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The Red Bead Game Applied to Medical Errors — Lean Blog

The Red Bead Game Applied to Medical Errors — Lean Blog

by MARK GRABAN on JULY 26, 2010

A blog reader sent me a link to this UK news article — really, it’s a lesson in statistical literacy, so thanks to the BBC for that. In the web piece, “Can chance make you a killer?“, Dr. Deming’s famous lessons from the “Red Bead Game” are illustrated in the context of deciding, based on data, which hospitals or doctors have patient death rates so high that negligence would be implied.

Are you fluent in the terminology and concepts of “common cause” and “special cause” variation? The BBC provides a great primer.

I have facilitated the Red Bead Game a number of times, after having read about it Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s classic Out of the Crisis. I own a copy of the kit, as pictured above, which I used at a healthcare conference a few years back.

Some of the lessons learned from running this game:

Arbitrary quality targets are useless if the system is not capable of delivering that level of quality

People are often punished or rewarded for situations that are just “dumb luck” instead of anything reflecting their skill or ability

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Dr. Deming - The 5 Deadly Diseases 1984

Watch and most importantly listen to this short video of  Dr. W. Edwards Deming's predictions about American management decline made in 1984.
Sound like what's happening today?

Some say that the Japanese miracle is over. But I am not so sure. Yes, they have been in a finacial holiding period for the past decade and yes, Toyota nd others have had some quality problems.

But I am not ready to count them out of the fourth quarter's goal line stand and win - with minutes to go.

Winning in business is over the long hall - not just a few - current events.

Ford Motor Company is doing quite well compared to the other companies in their business. What about Hewlett-Packard's success?

Maybe there is some truth to the concepts !




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