“Western management has failed to understand cause and effect.” W. Edwards Deming
…when you combine Deming & Goldratt, you get the robust Decalogue Methodology
The Decalogue is an original contribution to the Theory of constraints and organizational science. Since 1999, it has been used by hundreds of companies to achieve fundamentally more with the resources available.
The Decalogue is a science-based methodology that equips leaders and managers with the insight and foresight that comes from a systemic approach. It is founded on cause and effect logic that views an organization as a system, i.e. a set of components that work together to achieve the goal of the system. By understanding a company as a system and applying principles of systems theory, it enables whole system optimization.
The Decalogue integrates for the first time into a cohesive and rigorous whole the work of two systemic approaches to management: the work of W. Edwards Deming, the father of Quality, and the work of Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt known as the Theory of Constraints.
The Decalogue’s systemic approach to management demonstrates how choosing a strategic Constraint and managing Variation provides the foundations for sustainable growth for any company. The Ten Steps of the Decalogue equip business owners and leaders with a clear and focused path to achieve the maximum value with the resources available.
The steps combine the essence of Deming – a common goal and focus on processes and variation – with the essence of Goldratt’s message – focussing on the one factor that determines the pace of throughput and on overcoming the cognitive barriers to change. Continuous improvement and continuous innovation becomes part of the day-to-day.
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Over the years we have communicated our approach to systemic management in a variety of ways. At the end of the 1990s, the unique blending of Deming and Goldratt into a methodology was first fully described by Domenico Lepore and Oded Cohen in ‘Deming and Goldratt: The Decalogue’. North River Press, 1999, translated into several languages and recommended reading in universities around the world.