{"id":6946,"date":"2024-08-13T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6946"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:15:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:15:58","slug":"have-you-got-addition-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/have-you-got-addition-sickness\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Got Addition Sickness?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>When processes aren&#8217;t working, people try adding to the process rather than subtracting. Doesn&#8217;t work. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/913752302?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;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 saw a phrase the other day that I liked, and I think you might get it. They called it \u201cAddition Sickness\u201d; Addition Sickness. What does that mean? Well, you end up adding more policies, procedures, rules, whatevers, workarounds, inspections&#8230; whatever it is. You know, Deming hated adding inspection; [he thought] that was stupid, right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;But we tend to add things to a process to try and counteract whatever is going wrong. It&#8217;s Addition Sickness. Maybe we need to come up with some Subtraction Medicine: What can we subtract from here? What step can we remove? What delay can we take out so that we get the outcome we want?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So if you find yourself wanting to add stuff to a process, think, \u201cHmm\u2026 I wonder how I could subtract that? I wonder how I could automate that?\u201d Right?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;In the QI Macros, when I was trying to teach people how to do decision trees to choose a chart, they were all confused. [I thought,] \u201cI can just create our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/control-chart-wizard\/\">Control Chart Wizard<\/a> [that] will look at your data and pick the right chart for you.\u201d That&#8217;s subtraction. I don&#8217;t have to teach you about decision trees; I let the software know decision trees, you just have to pick data. Subtraction.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. When you get that urge to add, think \u201cI wonder what I could subtract? Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week\u2026 by subtracting something.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When processes aren&rsquo;t working, people try adding to the process rather than subtracting. Doesn&rsquo;t work. Here&rsquo;s why: &#65279; &ldquo;I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma Demystified&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;I saw a phrase the other day that I liked, and I think you might get it. They called it &ldquo;Addition Sickness&rdquo;; Addition Sickness. 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