{"id":5181,"date":"2021-09-07T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T21:09:52","slug":"time-money-people-and-training-are-bad-countermeasures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/time-money-people-and-training-are-bad-countermeasures\/","title":{"rendered":"Time, Money, People and Training Are Bad Countermeasures"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>More time, money, people and training are poor, unsustainable countermeasures. Improvements should save money, time and people. Good countermeasures require more creativity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/583895767?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;I recently mentioned a tool called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-articles\/innovative-countermeasures\/\">TRIZ<\/a> for doing analysis and coming up with countermeasures. One of the things I keep seeing is people think, \u201cWell, if I only had more time or more money or more people or if we did a better job of training we&#8217;d fix all this stuff.\u201d That&#8217;s dumb, okay? TRIZ suggests that you&#8217;re not being very creative. The goal is to reduce the amount of time, reduce the amount of money, reduce the amount of people, [reduce] unnecessary training. What you want to do is set the system up so that the system won&#8217;t let people fail, and they&#8217;ll be faster.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I talk to hospitals and they think, \u201cWell, if we just had more nurses on the floor we&#8217;d have better outcomes.\u201d Maybe not. Maybe they&#8217;ll just get in each other&#8217;s way and cause problems. Maybe you need fewer nurses, but you need to prioritize the care and feeding of different folks in in the unit. Maybe the unit&#8217;s too big and so there&#8217;s too much commute time, or things are set up inappropriately so that there&#8217;s too much commute time inside of a nursing unit.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I keep seeing people trying to throw money and people and time as problems; that&#8217;s the wrong answer. You need to figure out how to mistake-proof it so you don&#8217;t have those problems anymore, so you don&#8217;t need all that money, time and people.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s create a hassle-free America, hassle-free health care. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More time, money, people and training are poor, unsustainable countermeasures. Improvements should save money, time and people. Good countermeasures require more creativity. &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;I recently mentioned a tool called TRIZ for doing analysis and coming up with countermeasures. 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