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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.
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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: 4/22/25 QI Macros webinar"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Data Mining, Excel, QI Macros, Webinar.
Computer programming used to be done on hardware boards with wires. Now it’s much easier. Six Sigma used to be hard. Now it’s easy too. Here’s why:
“Well hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].
“When I was a kid, my dad was the manager of a company and they had to program their own computers. He had a hard board and you plugged wires in it to get it to do things like add, subtract, multiply, divide, calculate taxes on sales of stuff. It was old IBM 401 or so… I don’t know what it was, but you would then slide that into the computer, snap it in and then run your reports.
Continue Reading "Programming Used to Be Hard Wired"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
Technology has given us the ability to automate tasks that used to be performed manually, and allows one person to perform the work of many. I saw an example of this on a recent trip.
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“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals” and QI Macros [software].
“You know, when I was growing up, the big band that came up were the Beatles, and they were also known as the Fab Four. And the Fab Four were kind of the structure of most bands, all right?
Continue Reading "The Fab Four and a One-Man Band"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
Minimum Viable Training (MVT) is a quick way to implement Six Sigma. Here’s why:
“Well hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software]. I’m here at the beautiful Maui Kaanapali Villas on Kaanapali beach in Maui, and my friend and I are just kind of hanging out here.
“I had this fascinating thing happen: one of our users, Jiri, went out and got onto our website and did a mind map of all of the training that’s out there and I was kind of blown away by how much stuff is out there.
Continue Reading "Minimum Viable Training – MVT"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
Over 80 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 "2/20/25 Healthcare Data Analytics Webinar"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Agile Lean Six Sigma, Data Mining, Excel, Healthcare, Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma, Webinar.
Most companies start their Six Sigma implementation by training a few Green and Black Belts. That works some of the time, but it’s the wrong way to go. Start with Yellow Belts. Here’s why:
“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals” and QI Macros [software].
“You know, a lot of companies start up their [Quality Improvement program] and they go out and they train a Black Belt and a few Green Belts and try to get things going. Then like many companies, they discover that they’re not getting the results that they want.
Continue Reading "Would You Rather Have 100 Yellow Belts or 2-3 GBs or BBs?"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
Struggling to get a good Cp and Cpk? It might be your data. Here’s why:
“I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].
“We had a guy call in the other day and he was trying to determine the capability of his process. Unfortunately, he’d taken [measurements of] everything from his startup to his shutdown scrap and ran that as a capability study, and he wasn’t capable. I said, “Well, there you go…” But if you run a control chart of that, you can see the wiggly startup and the wiggly shutdown and then there’s this nice stable process in the middle.
Continue Reading "Capability Analysis Issues"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
Over 40 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.
Here are the books Jay mentions in the video:
You can view a short two-page illustrated guide to the Zero Harm – Trillion Dollar Prescription by clicking HERE.
Continue Reading "1/14/25 Healthcare Data Analytics Webinar"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Agile Lean Six Sigma, Data Mining, Excel, Healthcare, Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma, Webinar.
Over 200 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.
You can view a short two-page illustrated guide to the Zero Harm – Trillion Dollar Prescription by clicking HERE.
If you’d like to see a short demo video to see how our software is used in healthcare organizations like yours, click this DEMO link.
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Continue Reading "12/17/24 Healthcare Data Analytics Webinar"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Agile Lean Six Sigma, Data Mining, Excel, Healthcare, Jay Arthur Blog, Lean, QI Macros, Six Sigma.
Learning Lean Six Sigma is slow and often confusing. How do you overcome the frustration barrier?
“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified,” “Agile Process Innovation” and QI Macros [software].
“In the book “The First 20 Hours” Josh Kaufman talks about how in any learning thing there’s a frustration barrier, and it can take 20 hours to break through that frustration barrier.
“I see that very often in Lean and Six Sigma where you’re learning this stuff and then starting to apply it. There’s a frustration, right? Learning how to use some tools, there’s a frustration barrier.
Continue Reading "Overcoming the Frustration Barrier"
Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.
