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The French Deming Association was founded in 1989 by Jean-Marie Gogue, currently Honorary President, in the presence of Dr. William Edwards Deming.

From 1950, within the Japanese Industry, Dr. Deming has experienced a management theory he had learnt from Dr. Walter Shewhart, a famous statistician. Its implementation led many Japanese firms, ruined during the second world war, to the first world level.

From 1980, in a lot of seminars in America and Europe, Dr. Deming put forward a method of systemic analysis aimed at solving the crisis. It's the « System of Profound Knowledge ».

Dr. Deming offers solutions to some management problems which are often mentioned in the press :

- Vertical structures which prevent from taking into account the customers satisfaction.

- Management practices which stress the executive people and lead them to be isolated and make errors.

- Financial incentives which develop extrinsic motivation at the expense of intrinsic motivation, prevent workers from developping their knowledge and contributing to innovation.

- Visions which do not enough take into account the interdependent relations between the different partners of the organizations.

- Product and service improvement programs which could be much more efficient by regularly using adequate statistical methods.

Dr. Deming was a visionary : his management style based on human being proved its efficiency. It's a definitely modern approach.

By joining us, you will enjoy exchanges with other members of the Association determined to take initiatives for a better French society.

Jean-Luc Fournier