{"id":7186,"date":"2025-03-25T01:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T07:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:03:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:03:39","slug":"use-excel-pivottables-to-find-the-invisible-low-hanging-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/use-excel-pivottables-to-find-the-invisible-low-hanging-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Excel PivotTables to Find the Invisible Low-hanging Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Everyone talks about low-hanging fruit, but only a few find it. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/995096100?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;Well 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 find that a lot of people are afraid to use Excel pivot tables to summarize data. Every company has raw data about mistakes and errors and defects and whatever it is, but it&#8217;s all individual events. People are afraid to learn how to use pivot tables to summarize that.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m telling you what, that&#8217;s where the \u2018invisible low-hanging fruit\u2019 lives. Everybody talks about \u2018low hanging fruit,\u2019 but this is where the \u2018invisible low hanging fruit\u2019 lives. Almost every multi-million-dollar project I&#8217;ve ever worked on started with a pivot table, so you might want to learn something about pivot tables.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something!&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone talks about low-hanging fruit, but only a few find it. Here&rsquo;s why: &#65279; &ldquo;Well hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma Demystified&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;I find that a lot of people are afraid to use Excel pivot tables to summarize data. Every company has raw data about mistakes and errors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7625,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[41,482,168],"class_list":["post-7186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement-insights","tag-excel","tag-pivottables","tag-qi-macros"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186","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=7186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7626,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions\/7626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}