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David Hutchins Receives the 2025 Deming Distinguished Practice Award in Tokyo

A truly historic moment unfolded in Tokyo today as David Hutchins was honoured with the 2025 Deming Distinguished Practice Award, presented by the Japanese Union of Scientists and Engineers (JUSE). The prestigious award is one of the highest international recognitions in the field of quality management and celebrates a lifetime devoted to advancing Total Quality

From Somerset to the World: David Hutchins Becomes the West’s First Deming Laureate

David Hutchins is a pioneer of modern quality and a steadfast ally to organisations dedicated to improvement. He is Chairman and Senior Consultant at David Hutchins Innovation Limited, where his lifetime of experience in quality leadership is translated into practical help for industry, government, and education. In October 2025, David was awarded the Deming Distinguished

The Lost Years of Quality and the Global Return to Excellence

By David Hutchins Anyone in business who is still alive and active who remembers the 1970’s, and 1980’s will recall it having been a golden age for anyone concerned with Business Performance improvement. Hotels and conference centres across the whole of the Western World were saturated with courses on Quality related subjects many of them

The Roots of TQM. By David Hutchins.

It is generally recognised that TQM (Total Quality Management) has its roots in Japan starting in 1960 15 years after the end of World War 2.. This was a showstopper for many in the West. Japan being diametrically on the other side of the world, the widespread impression was and for some still is, that

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