{"id":6952,"date":"2024-08-06T01:00:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=6952"},"modified":"2024-12-19T15:17:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:17:54","slug":"quality-groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/quality-groundhog-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality Groundhog Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working in quality improvement for 35 years. Why isn&#8217;t anything any better?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/913761723?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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been at this for over 30 years (Quality Improvement), and I have to ask myself why isn&#8217;t anything any better? Why isn&#8217;t Quality pervasive? I think it&#8217;s because we made it too complex and time-consuming and too hard to do&#8230; that&#8217;s just me.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;But I have this <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Groundhog_Day_(film)\">Groundhog Day<\/a> experience, right? I feel like Bill Murray. I wake up every morning and it says \u201csame old same old.\u201d I keep hoping that somehow there will be a transition where everybody wakes up and [says] \u201cOh my gosh, we could use these tools to make everything simple, streamlined, optimized\u2026 faster, better, cheaper, free, perfect and now.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, we\u2019re not getting any younger, and Quality still seems to be stuck in the last century. I&#8217;d invite you all: Let&#8217;s play! Let&#8217;s see if we can&#8217;t figure out a way to make Quality all-pervasive\u2026 [make] Quality thinking all-pervasive.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I was talking to some guy from Singapore, and he said \u201cWe&#8217;re teaching it in kindergarten through K12.\u201d You&#8217;re doing what? \u201cWe&#8217;re teaching it to all of our students across Singapore.\u201d Oh my gosh! People out there want to get ahead; we may be falling behind.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week: Let&#8217;s go out and do something this week to advance the mission, the belief, the success of the quality paradigm.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;ve been working in quality improvement for 35 years. Why isn&rsquo;t anything any better? &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been at this for over 30 years (Quality Improvement), and I have to ask myself why isn&rsquo;t anything any better? Why isn&rsquo;t Quality pervasive? 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