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The cover of the May-June 2018 issue of Harvard Business Review highlights “Agile” as the future of business. This is the way business is going to stay competitive in the future. Speed is the killer app!
Lean Six Sigma can no longer cling to its old-fashioned way of doing things: weeks of training, months for improvement teams. Here’s why:
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Continue Reading "Agile Lean Six Sigma"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Agile Lean Six Sigma, Improvement Insights, Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma.
Are you making one of the most common mistakes in Six Sigma? Are you forgetting the control phase?
If you do forget to implement a control plan and control charts to monitor and corrective actions, you might just as well have not wasted everyone’s time.
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Continue Reading "Forgetting The Control Phase?"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, Jay Arthur Blog, QI Macros, Six Sigma.
Do you know people who only dabble in Lean Six Sigma? They get in, get certified and get out?
You can use the tools of quality everywhere in your life and work for the rest of your life.
Why stop?
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Continue Reading "Going In and Out of Lean Six Sigma?"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma.
Maybe on one level or another, but we’re both competing with the 1,000 pound gorilla in the room. You probably know who it is, but here’s my take on it.
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Continue Reading "Is QI Macros® Competing with Minitab®?"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, QI Macros.
Are we in the quality community letting our past dictate our future? Is our bias stopping us from seeing the possibilities?
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Continue Reading "Confirmation Bias In Lean Six Sigma Implementation"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma.
To commemorate Nurses Week 2018, Jay speaks with LeAnn Thieman, author of “Chicken Soup for the Nurses Soul” and the founder of SelfCare for HealthCare.
Continue Reading "Celebrate Nurses Week 2018"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Healthcare, Improvement Insights.
In Win Bigly, Scott Adams describes confirmation bias as the human tendency to irrationally believe new information that supports your existing world view even when it doesn’t. Leaders, managers and team members all think they know the solution to a given problem, even when they don’t. Here’s how confirmation bias can screw up your improvement project.
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Continue Reading "Confirmation Bias in Lean Six Sigma"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma.
I’ve noticed a disturbing trend. Customers call us wanting to know all of the background about the hows, whys and formulas of a chart. I think they are afraid someone will challenge or ridicule their analysis. Here’s what I think.
Continue Reading "Fear of Ridicule and What to Do About It"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, QI Macros, Six Sigma, Statistics.
The editor of Harvard Business Review says that “corporate survival today requires the capacity for rapid change.” Isn’t it time to embrace an Agile approach to Lean Six Sigma to “speed its evolution and better serve customers’ needs?”
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Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, Lean, Six Sigma.
