{"id":7136,"date":"2025-01-07T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7136"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T21:45:08","slug":"you-already-have-all-the-data-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/you-already-have-all-the-data-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"You Already Have All The Data You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Don&#8217;t try and invent new data. There&#8217;s a lot of data out there you can use right now, today, to make an improvement. Here&#8217;s how:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/994556252?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;All too often, I see people try to follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/DMAIC-roadmap.html\">DMAIC<\/a>: \u201cWell, we&#8217;re going to Define, and then we\u2019ve got to go find some Measurements and spin up some measurements\u2026\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m telling you that every company in this world is awash in data about how things work. There&#8217;s tons of data out there, okay? Go find data that exists about a problem that you have, and use the data that&#8217;s already there to solve [that problem] and improve that process.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t try and invent new data. That&#8217;s dumb. There\u2019s plenty of data. If you run out of data then go invent something new, but there&#8217;s a lot of data out there you can use right now, today, to make an improvement. That&#8217;s why every week I say, \u201cLet&#8217;s go out and improve something this week,\u201d because there&#8217;s stuff we can do this week. There&#8217;s data right there; we can just grab it and go.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week\u2026 and use the data you&#8217;ve already got.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&rsquo;t try and invent new data. There&rsquo;s a lot of data out there you can use right now, today, to make an improvement. Here&rsquo;s how: &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;All too often, I see people try to follow DMAIC: &ldquo;Well, we&rsquo;re going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[30,118,168],"class_list":["post-7136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement-insights","tag-data","tag-lean-six-sigma","tag-qi-macros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136","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=7136"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7446,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7136\/revisions\/7446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}