{"id":6323,"date":"2023-03-28T01:00:38","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2023-03-23T12:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T18:52:42","slug":"does-qi-macros-compete-with-minitab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/does-qi-macros-compete-with-minitab\/","title":{"rendered":"Does QI Macros\u00ae Compete with Minitab?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>People often ask if QI Macros is in competition with Minitab. No, I tell them. We are both in competition with a common enemy. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/807606997?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&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I was at the <a href=\"https:\/\/asq.org\/conferences\/six-sigma\">American Society for Quality Lean Six Sigma conference<\/a>, and my booth for QI Macros was right next to Minitab. You know, people are always asking me, \u201cJay, do you guys compete with Minitab?\u201d I say, \u201cNo, we compete with ignorance and apathy.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Number one, people don&#8217;t know how these tools could help them, whether it&#8217;s me or Minitab. They&#8217;re just apathetic; they don&#8217;t want to go out and learn how to use the tools to make their life better, their business better, their\u2026 whatever.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I got this idea from <a href=\"https:\/\/guykawasaki.com\/\">Guy Kawasaki<\/a>; he was talking about back when Macs and PCs first came out. He said \u201cWe&#8217;re not in competition. Macs and PCs aren&#8217;t in competition. We&#8217;re in competition with ignorance and apathy.\u201d People don&#8217;t know what a personal computer could do for them, and [they think] \u201cI don&#8217;t want to spend a bunch of money to buy one.\u201d My first IBM PC was like $3,600, which is a lot. Now for $500 you can buy some high-speed machine that&#8217;ll go do stuff. Macs are a little bit more expensive, but either way I can get a tool now that&#8217;ll do a thousand times more stuff for a lot less cost because that&#8217;s Moore\u2019s law: Everything keeps getting cheaper every year. They thought it would stop; no, it doesn&#8217;t stop. Ultimately, it&#8217;ll all be free, I hope.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s kind of my observation. People are afraid. I go to these conferences and people are still using line charts with trend lines, or bar charts, or a pie chart\u2026 oh my gosh. Okay, that&#8217;s apathy.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Go out and learn the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/quality-tools\/\">tools of Quality<\/a>, start using them and make improvements. You can buy [QI Macros], buy Minitab, you can buy somebody else[\u2018s software]. I don&#8217;t care, but start using the tools of Quality, right? Don&#8217;t just go get certified and take a little test so that you&#8217;re now a&#8230; whatever. Start using the tools of Quality to make improvements.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something. Let&#8217;s use the tools of Quality, and let&#8217;s make dramatic improvement, because I know it&#8217;s possible.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often ask if QI Macros is in competition with Minitab. No, I tell them. We are both in competition with a common enemy. 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