The French Deming Association

Dr. Deming with a French management team, at a seminar given in London, 1992.

The French Deming Association was founded in February 1989. This initiative was supported by Dr. Deming, who was made Honorary Life Member in July 1989, during a seminar he led in Versailles. We are a learning organization, essentially devoted to education and research, not aimed at profit-making. Our purpose is to help our members and to coordinate their studies, in order to promote a way of management which respects human dignity.

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We are prisoners of a tyrannous and absurd system of management
The ways of American management could cause your country incalculable harm. American management counts dollars, neglecting people, and failing to keep ahead in quality, productivity, and services. W. Edwards Deming
While many French people know that Dr Deming was the leader of the Japanese Industry transformation after the war, few of us know that he brought Japan not only new management methods, but also a new way of thinking. Jean-Marie Gogue
Jean-Marie Gogue Honorary Life President
Jean-Marie Gogue was a student, friend and assistant of Dr Deming. You can download his French manual Statistique pratique , as well as his statistical analysis programs Alice, Cora, Daisy, Norma (french version) and Movira (english version). Absolutely free ! Movira is a wonderful help for control charting !
Look at the list of reference books. They can help you understand the Deming management philosophy. And you must read first his famous book Out of the Crisis.
The Deming's Fourteen Points are well known. Deming also wrote 66 Questions to Help Managers (chapter 5 of Out the Crisis). They were the thread of a debate that Jean-Marie Gogue led in 1996 on the Deming Electronic Network : The Deming Questions.