{"id":6367,"date":"2023-07-11T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T07:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2023-03-23T14:10:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T20:10:32","slug":"defects-arent-spread-all-over-like-butter-on-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/defects-arent-spread-all-over-like-butter-on-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Defects Aren&#8217;t Spread All Over Like Butter On Bread"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>People often think defects are spread evenly all over the business, like butter on bread. Not true. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/808400076?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&#8217;ve said this before, but people out there seem to think that defects and mistakes and errors are like butter spread on a slice of bread. It&#8217;s just, like, everywhere in your organization, right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Not true. It&#8217;s more like mold somewhere on a loaf of bread. All you have to do is fix that little piece that&#8217;s in trouble in that one [slice] of bread and that&#8217;ll keep it from spreading to the rest of the organization.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Look for the little bit of mold; don&#8217;t look for things that don&#8217;t exist\u2026 but they are tasty.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often think defects are spread evenly all over the business, like butter on bread. Not true. Here&rsquo;s why: &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma Demystified&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve said this before, but people out there seem to think that defects and mistakes and errors are like butter spread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[508,151,118],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement-insights","tag-butter","tag-defects","tag-lean-six-sigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6447,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/6447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}