| Henry Neave | |
|---|---|
| Born | Henry Robert Neave |
| Alma mater | |
| Known for | PDSA, total quality management, quality control |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Business administration and theory, economics, statistics |
Henry Neave is a British business theorist, management consultant, statistician, and writer. He is one of the leading proponents of the philosophy of W. Edwards Deming, with whom he was a close friend and colleague.
He lectured at his alma mater, The University of Nottingham, from 1963 until 1996, and later served as the W. Edwards Deming Professor of Leadership and Management in the Business School of Nottingham Trent University until his retirement at the end of 2004.
In 1985 Deming requested Neave to assist him at his four-day seminar in London, his first in Britain. Neave would go on to assist Deming at these seminars in each subsequent year until Deming's death in 1993.
In 1987 Neave founded the British Deming Association, and three years later his book The Deming Dimension was first published, regarded as a clear discussion to the Deming philosophy and to which Deming himself wrote the foreword. Predating Deming's final work, The New Economics for Industry, Government, Education, it is the first published work to reference Deming's System of Profound Knowledge.
In 2001, Neave received the American Society for Quality's Deming Medal.
Works
- Neave, Henry R. (1988). Distribution free tests. Unwin Hyman. ISBN 0318410958.
- Neave, Henry R. (1996). "'I shall teach...the theory of a system, and cooperation'". Training for Quality. 4 (4). MCB UP Ltd: 25–31. doi:10.1108/09684879610149017.
- Neave, Henry R. (2011) . Elementary Statistics Tables. Routledge. ISBN 9780415563475.
- Neave, Henry R. (1990) . The Deming Dimension. SPC Press. ISBN 978-0-945320-36-4.
References
- Gregory, J.D. (1999). "Annotated bibliography on the Deming philosophy". Journal of Management History. 5 (8). doi:10.1108/jmh_arc.1999.15805hae.001. Retrieved 2024-12-28.
- "THE DEMING DIMENSION: Management for a Better Future" (PDF).
- "12 Days to Deming Day 1" (PDF). www.nzoq.org.nz. Retrieved 2024-09-11.
- "SPC Ink - Summer, 2013 Number 44". spcpress.com.
- Pfahler, Lori (1992-02-01). "The Deming Dimension". Technometrics. doi:10.1080/00401706.1992.10485246 (inactive 28 December 2024).
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