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Books

Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation: 2nd Edition
An excellent handbook on how to use experiments to learn about your organization and how to use that knowledge to improve your organization. The book integrates Dr. Deming's ideas and design of experiments thinking. Forward by W. Edwards Deming. 3rd edition is on the way.

The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance
See the second edition of this handbook. Great handbook for process improvement. The best resource for applying the plan-do-study-act cycle to improvement.

The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance
Second edition of this great handbook for process improvement. The best resource for applying the plan-do-study-act cycle to improvement. Highly recommended

Articles

Understanding Variation view details
Highly recommended. An excellent discussion of variation. Understanding variation is critical to improving management and the performance of organizations.

Finding the Balance Between Quality and Cost view details
One of the steps toward a system for improving value is recognizing that waste removal is an essential component of that system, not just a by-product of defect reduction. More on quality a

Understanding Variation, 2016 Update view details

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