{"id":5165,"date":"2021-09-28T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2021-09-28T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T20:29:47","slug":"the-two-hour-improvement-week-to-maximize-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/the-two-hour-improvement-week-to-maximize-results\/","title":{"rendered":"The Two-hour Improvement Week to Maximize Results"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Big Sigma wastes time and money. You can make a lot of progress in just two hours a week. Here&#8217;s how.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/582176396?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\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I\u2019m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Hospitals-Improving\/dp\/1259641082\/\">Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/trial\/30-day\/\">QI Macros<\/a> [software].<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;One of the things that&#8217;s irritated me for a long time is the whole Six Sigma idea (I call it \u201cbig sigma\u201d) where it&#8217;s like, \u201cWe have to do it wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling; everybody has to be on a Six Sigma project.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s wrong, okay? A very little portion of your business is broken &#8211; not the whole enchilada, right? So you can spend a lot of time trying to fix things out there in various places and never get to the few things that really are key to moving the business.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think you have to spend 40 hours a week on this. I think if each one of you spent two hours a week &#8211; two hours &#8211; and simply focused on trying to find exactly the data to pinpoint exactly where the problem is, then the next week get up a handful of people together to do root cause analysis for a couple hours, and then the following week spend a couple hours implementing those countermeasures, you would make massive progress, massive progress.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: spend a couple hours really focused and move the needle each week &#8211; each week &#8211; and guess what? When you do that, magic will happen\u2026 magic will happen.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, if you&#8217;re stuck and you can&#8217;t quite figure out what your data is and you don&#8217;t know what to do with it, send it to me: <a href=\"mailto:jay@qimacros.com\">jay@qimacros.com<\/a>, and I will see if I can turn it and look at it and make some sense out of something. All right? I&#8217;m not afraid to help you, so don&#8217;t stay stuck\u2026 don&#8217;t get stuck; I hate that, all right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So let&#8217;s create a hassle-free America, hassle-free healthcare. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Sigma wastes time and money. You can make a lot of progress in just two hours a week. 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