HKSQ Dinner with John Hunter (Deming Institute)

Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (HKQAA) and The W. Edwards Deming Institute co-organized 2.5 day seminar named “The Deming Management Method for Owners and Executives” from 12th to 14th Jun 2014 for HKQAA 25th Anniversary Management Guru Seminar Series. We are honor to invite Mr. John Hunter (Senior Facilitator, The W. Edwards Deming Institute; President, Curious Cat Ltd.) to have dinner in City University of Hong Kong on 15 June 2014.

We went into the restaurant and took a photo from memory.
(Right: Minda Chiang (Hon. Secretary, HKSQ), Peter Fung (Vice Chairman, HKSQ), John Hunter and I (Former Chairman, HKSQ))

John was one of 12 people worldwide selected by the W. Edwards Deming Istitute to reconfigure Dr. Deming’s famous “Four Day Seminar” into the 2.5 day seminar “Out of the Crisis”. We knew each other through ASQ Influential Voices, John’s blogs and LinkedIn. After knowing him to have business trip in Hong Kong, we organized such meeting with HKSQ exco members for sharing John’s quality management experience in Deming’s way.

During the dinner, we discussed about Dr. Deming (Quality Guru), Dr. Russell Ackoff (American Organizational Theorist) and Taiichi Ohno (大野耐一) (father of the Toyota Production System)

After the discussion, I presented HKSQ the 25th Anniversary Year Book and souvenir to John.

We took a group photo with John Hunter and all HKSQ exco members who participated the dinner.
(Left: Dr. Albert Tsang (Former Chairman), Dr. Aaron Tong (Former Chairman), Ms. Minda Chiang (Hon. Secretary), Mr. John Hunter (HKSQ Guest), Dr. Lotto Lai (Former Chairman), and Mr. Peter Fung (Vice-chairman))

One surprise thing is Dr. Aaron Tong who attended Dr. Deming’s course in 1987!

Reference:
HKSQ - www.hksq.org
The W. Edwards Deming Institute - https://www.deming.org/
Curious Cat Ltd. - http://www.curiouscat.com/index.cfm
HKQAA eNewsletter “Deming’s Management Philosophy and Its Synergy with QMS
John Hunter's blog: Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog - http://management.curiouscatblog.net/

John Hunter combines technology with management expertise to improve the performance of organizations. He has served as an IT program manager for the Office of Secretary of Defense Quality Management Office, the White House Military Office and the American Society for Engineering Education. John authored Management Matters: Building Enterprise Capability. He has maintained one of the first and most popular management resources on the internet. His blog is widely recognized as a valuable resource for leaders and managers. Moreover, he manages The W. Edwards Deming Institute Blog and Twitter accounts and has contributed several published articles for the widely viewed Deming Files on the PEX Network.
(More info in http://www.johnhunter.com/)