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Over 50 people signed up for this webinar, with Jay Arthur demonstrating how to implement Healthcare Data Analytics to save time, save money, and (most importantly) save lives.
Books that Jay may have mentioned in the video:
You can view a short two-page illustrated guide to the Zero Harm – Trillion Dollar Prescription by clicking HERE.
Continue Reading "9/15/26 Healthcare Data Analytics Webinar"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Agile Lean Six Sigma, Data Mining, Excel, Healthcare, Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma, Webinar.
You don’t have to be a statistician or Six Sigma Belt to do SPC. If you can type numbers into an Excel spreadsheet, you can do SPC.
Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation – Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results.
“If you can type, you can do SPC. That’s right, Statistical Process Control. I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].
“I find so many people are afraid; like they have to know formulas, they have to be a statistician, they have to do something mystical, lots of training and in-depth whatever, threatening with how they feel about their own thing about math and statistics and everything else.
Continue Reading "If You Can Type, You Can Do SPC"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
Over 50 people signed up for this webinar, with Jay Arthur demonstrating some of the software’s most frequently used tools and answering questions asked by attendees.
If you saw a feature demonstrated in the webinar that might have been added to QI Macros after the version you’re using (for instance, the Improvement Project Wizard or the automated Process Change Wizard), you may need to purchase an upgrade to bring your QI Macros to the current version.
Send an email to support@qimacros.com and we can help, for instance in generating a quote to upgrade all the users at your organization or just guiding you through the purchasing process.
Continue Reading "*Latest webinar: 9/10/26 QI Macros webinar"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Data Mining, Excel, QI Macros, Webinar.
Statistical textbooks disagree on what constitutes Control Chart Rule 2 – Zone A: 2 of 3 points above/below 2 sigma. Which one is right?
Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation – Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results.
“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].
“Got a call from a customer this week. He was all upset because of control chart rule two, which is about having points above two sigma or below two sigma (two out of three).
“Well, guess what? Some people in their books say those two points have to be on the same side of the center line.
Continue Reading "Control Chart Rules"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
Old habits die hard. Especially in Six Sigma. Which ones are you hanging on to?
Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation – Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results.
“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals” and QI Macros [software].
“The other day I was in with my employee Phil and he had to send a text to a customer or something, or read a text from a customer. I noticed as he was typing, he was just skating on the keyboard and then doing things. And I thought, “Wow, that’s different.”
Continue Reading "Old Habits Die Hard"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
In the last century, we trained people on run charts to prepare them for control charts. Why are we still doing it? What does it cost us?
Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation – Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results.
“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals” and QI Macros [software].
“In the last century, calculating the center lines and control limits and everything for control charts was difficult. And so to make it simple, we started off with simply doing a center line, an average or median to get people used to the idea of calculating something.
Continue Reading "Why Start With Run Charts?"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
Over 50 people signed up for this webinar, with Jay Arthur demonstrating how to implement Healthcare Data Analytics to save time, save money, and (most importantly) save lives.
Books that Jay may have mentioned in the video:
You can view a short two-page illustrated guide to the Zero Harm – Trillion Dollar Prescription by clicking HERE.
Continue Reading "8/18/26 Healthcare Data Analytics Webinar"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Jay Arthur Blog.
When your Kleenex box tissues don’t pop up, what do you do? Use TRIZ.
Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation – Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results.
“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].
“I don’t know about you, but some things sort of bother me, like sometimes the Kleenex gets stuck down in there, you know. You could try and run your hand down in there to pull something out, but that screws up all the plastic in here.
“But I was thinking about TRIZ, and there’s 40-some-odd different rules for coming up with better ways to do something.
Continue Reading "Kleenex Box Hack Using TRIZ"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
Over 30 people signed up for this webinar, with Jay Arthur demonstrating some of the software’s most frequently used tools and answering questions asked by attendees.
If you saw a feature demonstrated in the webinar that might have been added to QI Macros after the version you’re using (for instance, the Improvement Project Wizard or the automated Process Change Wizard), you may need to purchase an upgrade to bring your QI Macros to the current version.
Send an email to support@qimacros.com and we can help, for instance in generating a quote to upgrade all the users at your organization or just guiding you through the purchasing process.
Continue Reading "8/11/26 QI Macros webinar"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Jay Arthur Blog.
I’ve been attending ASQ Lean Six Sigma conferences and attending sessions on AI. Here’s what I’ve learned.
Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation – Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results.
“Let’s talk about AI for a minute. I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified,” “Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals” and QI Macros [software].
“I’ve been to a lot of conferences. I’ve gone to a lot of presentations on AI, and they all say, “Here’s what AI is,” but I haven’t seen any real good case studies and examples of what people are using it for.
Continue Reading "AI and Six Sigma"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
