{"id":6537,"date":"2023-08-15T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6537"},"modified":"2023-07-20T09:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T15:46:29","slug":"joseph-juran-lets-get-off-the-dime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/joseph-juran-lets-get-off-the-dime\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Juran &#8211; Let&#8217;s Get Off the Dime!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>In 2004, Joseph Juran thought the U.S. was falling behind in quality. Here&#8217;s what he had to say:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/826910333?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-Hospitals-Improving\/dp\/1259641082\/\">Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals<\/a>\u201d and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I was again looking at this article about Juran, and one of the things he said in here is he felt that Japan was the quality leader and they&#8217;re bringing along South Korea, China and other places. America only has the lead in a few Industries. He says:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>&#8220;We need to get off the dime. Breaking the impasse is not going to happen easily. We&#8217;re not as bad as the Japanese were before and just after World War II, but we&#8217;re just adequate.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>&#8220;Juran said it 20 years ago and I think it&#8217;s still true today: we need to get off the dime, right? Especially in health care, right? If one out of every two patients suffer some sort of a preventable harm, guess what? Let&#8217;s get off the dime. Let&#8217;s start moving.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s simplify, streamline, optimize and improve until there is zero harm. To get to zero harm you&#8217;re going to need control charts to sustain the new levels of performance because otherwise it&#8217;s not going to be possible. A lot of people think we can get to zero harm with just gut feel, common sense, trial and error\u2026 nonsense! You can&#8217;t get there without tools, all right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week and next week, the week after that and the week after that forever until we can get to a hassle-free America, hassle-free Health Care, a hassle-free planet.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2004, Joseph Juran thought the U.S. was falling behind in quality. 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