Thomas Nolan

Books

• Quality Improvement Through Planned Experimentation: 2nd Edition
  An excellent handbook on how to use experiments to learn about your organization and how to use that knowledge to improve your organization. The book integrates Dr. Deming's ideas and design of experiments thinking. Forward by W. Edwards Deming. 3rd edition is on the way.

• The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance
  Great handbook for process improvement. The best resource for applying the plan-do-study-act cycle to improvement.

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Articles

• Understanding Variation   view details
  Highly recommended. An excellent discussion of variation. Understanding variation is critical to improving management and the performance of organizations.

• Finding the Balance Between Quality and Cost   view details
  One of the steps toward a system for improving value is recognizing that waste removal is an essential component of that system, not just a by-product of defect reduction. More on quality a

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