Launch of a Deming special interest group
A new group is being formed within the IQA focusing on the work of the late Dr W. Edwards Deming, the famous contributor to management and the quality improvement revolution worldwide. The new Deming Special Interest Group will be launched on Tuesday 26 March 2002 at the IQA Headquarters in London.
The purpose of the Group is to promote, through the IQA, ways in which the Deming approach can improve products, services and the world of work.
The new IQA Group is intended to act as a catalyst for the understanding, exploration, application and possibly the development of Deming's thinking. The Group will be free to all IQA Members and in addition will offer special Deming Affiliate membership to former British Deming Association members.
Ultimately the Group wants four primary activities to be established based on Deming's thinking to deliver value: research which will include examining the relationship to other management philosophies / approaches, communication, provision of a UK Deming archive and facilitated self-help in learning about Deming's thinking.
Group activities will begin with research studying Deming's thinking and its application. The research is intended to build a credible base of evidence that will help managers and organisations adopt his style of management in order to make their work go ever better.
At the launch day the relevance of Deming's thinking will be shown for today's world along with the strategy intended to enable the Group to develop the capability to help organisations use it. This introduction will be followed by and 'open space' style event that addresses the following research topics from a Deming perspective:
- What is quality?
- ISO 9001: 2000.
- A Deming case study based on the book Free, Perfect and Now by Rob Rodin.
- Deming's use in his thinking of Walter A Shewhart's work, which included SPC.
The parallel sessions will allow freedom for the participants to move freely between the sessions. Those gathered there are also free to develop their own research topics in areas of interest. The day will close with summaries from the four sessions and information about future events.
The launch event will run from 10.30 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. A small fee of £25 will be charged which will cover refreshments and a copy of a book which contains the first known reference to the concept of continual improvement. So contact the IQA to book now since places are likely to be at a premium.
Press release date: December 2001
Press Contact: Alan Clark Home Office: 01527 61929, email:
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Alt. contact: University of Birmingham (part-time) 0121 415 2403, email:
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IQA contact: Mike Debenham, 020 7245 6722, email: mdebenham@iqa.org