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Jay Arthur was the featured speaker for the 12/16/20 ASQ Philadelphia Section Web Meeting. His topic was “Turning Data Into Dollars with Microsoft Excel: Big Profits from Small Data.” You may view the video of Jay’s webinar below:
If you’re interested in learning more about QI Macros for Excel (the software Jay wrote and developed), click HERE and view the demo video in the yellow box. You may also sign up for a free 30 day trial of the software by filling out the form on that page next to the video, or by signing up at THIS link.
If you’re interested in learning more about Jay’s ideas on Agile Lean Six Sigma, you can download a free brief summary of Jay’s ideas in his “Agile Lean Six Sigma Manifesto,” available at THIS link.
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Posted by Jay Arthur in Agile Lean Six Sigma, Data Mining, Jay Arthur Blog.
Jay Arthur was the featured speaker for the 12/8/20 ASQ San Antonio Section Web Meeting. His topic was “Agile Lean Six Sigma – Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results.” You may view the video of Jay’s webinar below:
If you’re interested in learning more about QI Macros for Excel (the software Jay wrote and developed), click HERE and view the demo video in the yellow box. You may also sign up for a free 30 day trial of the software by filling out the form on that page next to the video, or by signing up at THIS link.
If you’re interested in learning more about Jay’s ideas on Agile Lean Six Sigma, you can download a free brief summary of Jay’s ideas in his “Agile Lean Six Sigma Manifesto,” available at THIS link.
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Posted by Jay Arthur in Agile Lean Six Sigma, Data Mining, Manufacturing, Webinar.
Jay Arthur was the featured speaker for the 10/22/20 ASQ Boulder Section Web Meeting. His topic was “Agile Approach to Lean Six Sigma.” You may view the video of Jay’s webinar below:
If you’re interested in learning more about QI Macros for Excel (the software Jay wrote and developed), click HERE and view the demo video in the yellow box. You may also sign up for a free 30 day trial of the software by filling out the form on that page next to the video, or by signing up at THIS link.
If you’re interested in learning more about Jay’s ideas on Agile Lean Six Sigma, you can download a free brief summary of Jay’s ideas in his “Agile Lean Six Sigma Manifesto,” available at THIS link.
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Posted by Jay Arthur in Agile Lean Six Sigma, Webinar.
This was a webinar Jay presented to ASQ Chicago on 8/12/20: “Agile Lean Six Sigma – Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results.”
(In addition to the recorded webinar, there is a bonus featuring more on a topic Jay was discussing during the warmup and technical troubleshooting period just prior to the start of the webinar. Enjoy!)
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Posted by Jay Arthur in Data Mining, Manufacturing, QI Macros, Webinar.
Having reviewed the quality tool usage in posters at ASQ WCQI, I have to ask: Where are the Quality Tools?
“Hi, this is Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals” and the QI Macros [software].
“I was at the ASQ World conference and I looked at the team posters – you know, the improvement posters that were located in the exhibit hall. Surprisingly, out of all of all these little posters that were out there were there only two control charts, there were about five fishbone [diagrams], maybe one Pareto chart, but most the rest of it was line and bar charts.
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Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, QI Macros.
Does Your Root Cause Analysis Fail The Last Why Because It Presupposes A Solution?
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Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights, Six Sigma.
Here’s a Pareto chart of case studies by country at ASQ World 2018. Notice any trends?
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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.
Get QI Macros and start using the tools of Quality. Join my Quality Improvement Movement.
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Posted by Jay Arthur in Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma.
At the ASQ Conference in Phoenix, and got some wonderful comments from one of the attendees who uses QI Macros:
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Posted by Jay Arthur in Jay Arthur Blog.
