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Deming on Total Quality Management (TQM)

I took Deming’s workshop back in the 1990s. When asked about Total Quality Management (TQM) Deming said…

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“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals” and QI Macros [software].

“Back in the 1990s when I was first getting involved with Quality, I went to one of [W. Edwards] Deming‘s four-day seminars. Somewhere in there, somebody asked him about Total Quality Management.

“Deming said, ‘I have no idea where the word ‘total’ came from. That’s just wrong. It’s Quality Management.

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Jay’s Quality Journey (5 min)

I graduated from UofA in 1973 with a B.S. in Systems Engineering. Here’s my journey through TQM, Lean Six Sigma, QI Macros and beyond.



“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals” and QI Macros [software].

“I got hired out of out of college by Mountain Bell back in 1973 and I worked for them for many, many years. I spent three years on a rotation out to Bell Labs in New Jersey. I learned a lot of stuff about UNIX and came back.

“In my real college career I was studying Systems Engineering [and] Operations Research, which is the mathematical optimization of systems.

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