{"id":5331,"date":"2021-10-05T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T07:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2021-10-05T14:07:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:07:57","slug":"doubt-the-default-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/doubt-the-default-solution\/","title":{"rendered":"Doubt the Default Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>All too often, improvement teams fail to question the default approach to doing business. They come up with countermeasures that simply parrot the status quo. I recently saw a TED talk on creativity. The presenter said: Doubt the Default. Sage advice. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/611810112?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;I saw an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers\">interesting TED talk this weekend<\/a>. The professor was talking about creativity, and he used a phrase that I kind of liked. It\u2019s \u201cdoubt the default.\u201d Doubt the default. So whatever you&#8217;re doing right now is the default; doubt the default.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Steve Jobs said \u201cHmm\u2026 you know, I don&#8217;t like these little tape cassette recorders. I\u2019d like something to hold a lot more music.\u201d Out came the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Mc_FiHTITHE\">iPod<\/a>, and then out came the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/MnrJzXM7a6o\">iPhone<\/a>, right? There&#8217;s things like that; Elon Musk said, \u201cWell, cars don&#8217;t have to run on gasoline, they can run on electricity\u201d &#8211; the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mURbzh9t0_0\">Tesla<\/a>. And then he said, \u201cWell, we could shoot rockets into space,\u201d and the default in space technology was you shut off the booster and you lost the booster, but the [payload] went into space. Musk&#8217;s team said, \u201cWell, I wonder if we could take our boosters and shoot this thing into space and then teach them how to come back and land so we could reuse them?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sX1Y2JMK6g8\">Reusable boosters<\/a>, that&#8217;s really ignoring the default, right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So doubt the default. Do you get the idea? Even for me, back early on in the 2005 zone, just like everybody else I had a decision tree built into the QI Macros so that you had to pick the chart before you picked your data. Then I realized, \u201cWell, the QI Macros are the only software that you actually select the data first.\u201d Well, guess what? Once you&#8217;ve selected your data, I can analyze it with the program, I can run through that decision tree inside the program so you don\u2019t have to keep in your head, and out of that came the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/control-chart-wizard\/\">Control Chart Wizard<\/a> and later the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/hypothesis-testing\/statistics-wizard-excel\/\">Stat Wizard<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/quality-tools\/chart-wizard\/\">Chart Wizard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/process-change-wizard\/\">Process Change Wizard<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/data-mining-analysis-excel\/data-mining-wizard\/\">Improvement Project Wizard<\/a>, which will create entire improvement projects from scratch. I doubted the default approach to how we do data analysis and Quality Improvement.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So when you&#8217;re working on your improvement project, doubt the default; doubt the default. Just question \u201cWhy are we doing it that way?\u201d \u201cIs there a better way?\u201d Very often, my job when I\u2019m consulting or coaching somebody is to help them see the alternatives. They may not be thinking about alternatives because we&#8217;ve always done it this way.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Doubt the default. 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>All too often, improvement teams fail to question the default approach to doing business. They come up with countermeasures that simply parrot the status quo. I recently saw a TED talk on creativity. The presenter said: Doubt the Default. Sage advice. Here&rsquo;s why: &#65279; &ldquo;I saw an interesting TED talk this weekend. 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