{"id":2422,"date":"2019-11-26T01:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:07:59","slug":"line-charts-are-like-driving-in-a-blizzard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/line-charts-are-like-driving-in-a-blizzard\/","title":{"rendered":"Line Charts Are Like Driving in a Blizzard"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>What charts do you need to stay safe and in control?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/361512143?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Most of you have driven on a highway. It may have been a two-lane rural [road] or a four-lane interstate, but you know that the lines on each side of the road help you stay on track, keep you safe and know that you&#8217;re going in the right direction.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;But if you&#8217;ve ever driven in a blizzard, you know all those lines are totally obscured and you can hardly see. I had to go over Raton Pass once upon a time driving from Denver to Tucson to see my parents, and it was a pouring blizzard and I could barely see where I was going. All I had were the tracks in front of me to kind of follow\u2026 so that&#8217;s a scary thing, right? You don&#8217;t know where you&#8217;re going.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Well Ryan on my staff says that using line charts [run charts] to track your progress is a lot like driving in a blizzard: You don&#8217;t know how you&#8217;re doing, you don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;re going off the rails or if anything&#8217;s happening good or bad. You&#8217;re just guessing.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;But a Control Chart is a lot like driving on clear dry pavement in beautiful sunshine because you can tell exactly where the lanes are; you can tell exactly how you&#8217;re performing.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now a couple years ago I had to sell my seventeen-year-old Subaru and I bought a new Subaru because I just liked it for what I have to do. On that car it has Lane Detection [technology] so if I&#8217;m driving along and I start to drift into a lane, it starts beeping at me and warning me, or if I start to drift off the other side towards the side of the road it starts beeping and warning me.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s like QI Macros\u2019 stability analysis. When you have a Control Chart, the stability analysis will pinpoint when you start to go out of control and it&#8217;ll do it before you can possibly know it&#8217;s happened, right? I mean it&#8217;s alerting you instantaneously about what&#8217;s going on in your process. Now that&#8217;s a very powerful thing to have on your side, right? Because you don&#8217;t want to drift into somebody else&#8217;s lane, you don&#8217;t want to drift into oncoming traffic, you don&#8217;t want to be out of control. You want to know that you&#8217;re safe and performing effectively, and that&#8217;s what Control Chart software can do for you.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So stop driving in the blizzard. Get on some clear land and start driving effectively, and I think that you&#8217;ll find that Control Charts are a powerful way to do that. That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. I&#8217;m Jay Arthur. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What charts do you need to stay safe and in control? &ldquo;Most of you have driven on a highway. 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