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tecleandor on March 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gaijin Engineer in Tokyo

Funny thing, although the PDCA process is always popularly related to the Toyota Production System, apparently it was created by Deming, "father of modern quality control", who divulgated it through Japan. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDCA

gramie on March 19, 2018 | [–]

And before Deming, there was Sarasohn (http://honoringhomer.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cringely...). In fact, Sarasohn recommended Deming for the job.

erikb on March 18, 2018 | [–]

Reminds me of the more military OODA loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

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