8.1 Participation, Team, and Democracy at Work

After reading Deming’s 14 Points (box 8.3, p. 221) I can see how the Japanese companies flourished into the dominant economical power. Mr. Deming’s ideas about improving the quality of the products that a company makes seem to be a template for success! Each Point seemed to be a pathway for succeeding in creating organization where there was none. For instance, Points 1 & 2, spoke directly to the overall idea of improvement. Creating a philosophy of instilling quality first and numbers last would seem to be a holistic approach to achieving a successful campaign! Creating "constancy" in the "purpose" of why you are creating the product and then creating a message that adopts the new philosophy would seem very important to the success of this new vision. It would seem to be a very monumental task in trying to convince an established organization to look at itself and think about reorganizing. Would it be the need to create profits that might allow them to look at this new idea?