{"id":6736,"date":"2024-01-23T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T08:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6736"},"modified":"2023-11-14T14:59:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T21:59:32","slug":"tuna-minnow-and-whalebone-diagramming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/tuna-minnow-and-whalebone-diagramming\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuna, Minnow and Whalebone Diagramming"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>There&#8217;s one sure sign that you haven&#8217;t narrowed your focus using data analysis. You&#8217;ll find it in your fishbone diagram.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/869246857?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>Download my free ebook <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Process Innovation<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\">Agile Process Innovation<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Demystified-Second\/dp\/0071749098\/\">Lean Six Sigma Demystified<\/a>\u201d and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, it was kind of interesting to me&#8230; we have a Fishbone Diagram in the QI Macros: we have a small, medium and a large. Somebody called in and said, \u201cIn this large [diagram] it doesn&#8217;t have this the fifth bone for the environment thing\u2026\u201d Nick on my staff went ahead and put one in there for him, but one of the things I know is if you do a good job with data analysis and narrow your focus, you&#8217;re going to end up with a minnowbone diagram, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-articles\/tar-pits\/\">not a whalebone diagram<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;When you start whalebone diagramming, you&#8217;re not narrow enough in your focus. Even the medium one, if you fill up all of bars in there, I still think you\u2019re whalebone diagramming. You need to go back, do some data analysis, narrow your focus, find the thing that really needs fixing. When you do that, you&#8217;ll end up with a minnowbone diagram: it won&#8217;t have that many bones.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement insight for this week: Avoid whalebone diagramming (even tunabone diagramming or salmonbone diagramming), right? Narrow your focus so you get down to a minnowbone diagram.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&rsquo;s one sure sign that you haven&rsquo;t narrowed your focus using data analysis. 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