W. Edwards Deming's "making another world": A holistic approach to performance improvement and the role of statistics

American Statistician

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-255

  Snee, Ronald D ^a  

^a Tunnell Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

Deming; Lean; Lean six sigma; Process improvement; Profound knowledge; Six sigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649106526     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313008X335572     Document Type: Review

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