RE: Having Your Style Guide and Eating Your Fries Too

Subject: RE: Having Your Style Guide and Eating Your Fries Too
From: SteveFJong -at- aol -dot- com
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 13:31:03 EDT

Guy A. McDonald" <Guy -dot- A -dot- McDonald -at- usa -dot- conoco -dot- com>wrote, "Deming's model failed
in Japan because he did not understand the cultural differences between his
logic and the Japanese way of approaching business."

Is that why Japan's highest industrial award for quality is called the Deming
Prize?

Seriously, though this is not of interest to most people, your assertion is
false. Try a Google search on "Deming failed in Japan" and you'll get back
plenty of hits that demonstrate just the opposite. (My recommendation is
http://www.lii.net/deming.html)

-- Steve


Steven Jong, Documentation Team Manager ("Typo? What tpyo?")
Lightbridge, Inc., 67 S. Bedford St., Burlington, MA 01803 USA
mailto:Jong -at- lightbridge -dot- com -dot- nospam 781.359.4902[V], 781.359.4500[F]
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