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Deming System of Profound Knowledge

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This is a group to continue the Deming Profound Knowledge discussion and application in Education. Please join the ongoing discussions and observations aimed at applying Dr. Deming’s work to the improvement or redesign of education.

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What is the Deming System of Profound Knowledge? (4 posts)

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  • Avatar Image David Langford said 1 year, 6 months ago:

    Dr. Deming talked about a System of Profound Knowledge. It is a lens to look at improvement by thinking about the integration of Knowledge, Systems, Psychology, and Statistical Variation.

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  • Avatar Image Alan Pippenger said 1 year, 6 months ago:

    David:
    As I told you at TWEDI I am very interested in the “process” as you see it happening. I believe it is important to have this communication as there may be hundreds, thousands, ready to join the struggle to bring about systemic improvement in education once it has been clearly and carefully defined. In other words, “what do we want to accomplish?”, “how will we know when a change is an improvement?”, etc.
    Of ALL the places systems thinking needs to be put into practice, education is going to be the most far reaching, affecting those we reach for generations.

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  • Avatar Image peter said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    What I like about Deming is the constant synergy PK invites. For me, the keys to systems management in schools are group loyalty psychology (I stole from Jonathan Haidt’s Happiness Hypothesis), customer learning relationships and systems knowledge, especially in the combing use of data and information to build learning strategies and learning support partnership relations. Systems thinking combines these into a full learning support operation built around the key role of the personal tutor. It is a pity that school leaders are not given the basic management knowledge they deserve…especially so in the UK, Europe and (Oh Well! ) everywhere!

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  • Avatar Image David Langford said 1 year, 5 months ago:

    The power in Deming’s approach is to get people to look at the whole system and not just parts of it. Most program implementation is targeted at parts of the system. When you think about starting to improve a school, a class, a university or a business. Usually, people go right to solutions. “Let’s try this… or maybe we should try that.” Enormous amounts of time money and effort are expended at what I call the dart board game of improvement. Deming’s SoPK causes you to stop and think more wholistically about: systems, psychology, statistics and knowledge. I find if you get people to try SoPK the process of change slows down or stops and improvement starts to take place.

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