W. Edwards Deming speaking in front of a green board

Quality Pioneer

W. Edwards Deming

Systems · Variation · Improvement

Statistician and management thinker whose work emphasized systems, variation, learning, and continuous improvement.

Public-domain FDA photograph

Contribution to quality

Statistician and management thinker whose work emphasized systems, variation, learning, and continuous improvement. This profile introduces the ideas most closely associated with this pioneer and explains how healthcare teams can use them as a starting point for learning and improvement.

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