{"id":6869,"date":"2024-03-05T01:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6869"},"modified":"2024-02-08T15:32:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T22:32:31","slug":"are-you-using-your-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/are-you-using-your-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Using Your Data?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Companies have mountains of data. Are you using yours?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/904528180?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 want to ask you: Are you using the data that you have available, or is it dying in some database hidden in some corner of the information systems? There&#8217;s a lot of great information in there that could drive tremendous improvements, but nobody&#8217;s paying attention or they don&#8217;t have enough time to go look at it. Companies collect tsunamis of data, I mean mountains of data, truckloads of data\u2026 and then it just sits somewhere and does nothing.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;What I&#8217;d like you to do is go on a &#8216;raw data diet&#8217; and go out and start farming some of these Information Systems you have: purchasing, payments, invoicing, operations\u2026 right? In healthcare, medical records; go dig up the data and do a little bit of analysis. The Improvement Project Wizard in QI Macros will help make that super simple.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s use the data we have to start making breakthrough improvements, and do it again and again and again and again until you retire.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week, not next week, not a week from now, not a month from now\u2026 this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies have mountains of data. Are you using yours? &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma Demystified&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;I want to ask you: Are you using the data that you have available, or is it dying in some database hidden in some corner of the information systems? There&rsquo;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[218,202,168,79,140],"class_list":["post-6869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-improvement-insights","tag-data-analysis","tag-data-mining","tag-qi-macros","tag-quality","tag-quality-improvement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869","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=6869"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6937,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6869\/revisions\/6937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}