According to Deming's 14 points:

1. Create a constant purpose toward improvement.

   • Plan for quality in the long term.

   • Resist reacting with short-term solutions.

   • Don't just do the same things better find better things to do.

   • Predict and prepare for future challenges, and always have the goal of getting better.

2. Adopt the new philosophy.

   • Embrace quality throughout the organization.

   • Put your customers' needs first, rather than react to competitive pressure and design products and services to meet those needs.

   • Be prepared for a major change in the way business is done. It's about leading, not simply managing.

   • Create your quality vision, and implement it.

3. Stop depending on inspections.

   • Inspections are costly and unreliable and they don't improve quality, they merely find a lack of quality.

   • Build quality into the process from start to finish.

   • Don't just find what you did wrong eliminate the "wrongs" altogether.

   • Use statistical control methods not physical inspections alone to prove that the process is working.

4. Use a single supplier for any one item.

   • Quality relies on consistency the less variation you have in the input, the less variation you'll have in the output.

   • Look at suppliers as your partners in quality. Encourage them to spend time improving their own quality they shouldn't compete for your business based on price alone.

   • Analyze the total cost to you, not just the initial cost of the product.

   • Use quality statistics to ensure that suppliers meet your quality standards.

5. Improve constantly and forever.

   • Continuously improve your systems and processes. Deming promoted the Plan-Do-Check-Act approach to process analysis and improvement.

   • Emphasize training and education so everyone can do their jobs better.

   • Use kaizen as a model to reduce waste and to improve productivity, effectiveness, and safety.

6. Use training on the job.

   • Train for consistency to help reduce variation.

   • Build a foundation of common knowledge.

   • Allow workers to understand their roles in the "big picture."

   • Encourage staff to learn from one another, and provide a culture and environment for effective teamwork.

7. Implement leadership.

   • Expect your supervisors and managers to understand their workers and the processes they use.

   • Don't simply supervise provide support and resources so that each staff member can do his or her best. Be a coach instead of a policeman.

   • Figure out what each person actually needs to do his or her best.

   • Emphasize the importance of participative management and transformational leadership.

   • Find ways to reach full potential, and don't just focus on meeting targets and quotas.