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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.
Last week, our grandson graduated from Colorado College and our granddaughter graduated from Rock Canyon High School.
Jake’s graduating class of 500 went single file to the podium to receive their diploma.
Rachel’s graduating class of 500 came from four directions simultaneously. Four name callers, four people handing out diplomas.
Which one do you think went faster?
Continue Reading "Lean Graduation Ceremonies"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Jay Arthur Blog, Lean, QI Macros, Service.
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.
Here’s a Pareto chart of case studies by country at ASQ World 2018. Notice any trends?
Continue Reading "ASQ World 2018 – Team Case Studies"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Jay Arthur Blog, QI Macros, Six Sigma.
I’m here at ASQ World in Seattle, 2018. As usual, I went through the team presentations to look for quality tool usage. The results are dismal. Mainly line and pie charts.
To paraphrase Steve Jobs, watching people do Six Sigma projects with plain line, bar and pie charts is like watching a man kick a whale across the beach with his bare feet.
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Continue Reading "Shortage of Quality Tools at ASQ"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma.
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.
