If Japan Can... Why Can't We?

This is the NBC News White Paper, credited with beginning the Quality Revolution and introducing W. Edwards Deming to American managers. It tells how the Japanese captured the world auto and electronics markets by following Deming’s advice to practice continual improvement and think of manufacturing as a system, not as bits and pieces. The report is an important historical document. It provides a deeper understanding of why we have had to learn to work and live in such rapid change. The program is an excellent consciousness raiser. Viewers are usually startled to see Deming predicting two decades ago what has happened. 70 min.