{"id":7561,"date":"2026-03-03T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:13:08","slug":"simple-it-up-dont-dumb-it-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/simple-it-up-dont-dumb-it-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple It UP &#8211; Don&#8217;t Dumb It Down"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>People often accuse me of trying to take Six Sigma and dumb it down. No. I&#8217;m trying to Simple It UP. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Download my free ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Process Innovation-Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1047914866?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<p>Download my free ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Agile Process Innovation-Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results<\/a>.<\/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>People often accuse me of trying to \u2018dumb down\u2019 Six Sigma. I&#8217;m not; I&#8217;m trying to \u2018simple it up.\u2019 Huge difference. \u2018Dumbing it down\u2019 pretends that people are dumb. \u2018Simpling it up\u2019 means I&#8217;m trying to make it so that everyone can access it.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;In the QI Macros, we have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/control-chart-wizard\/\">Control Chart Wizard<\/a> which automates the selection of the right control chart so you don&#8217;t have to know how to select a control chart, which is one of the things I found people had a hard time learning. We also have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/hypothesis-testing\/statistics-wizard-excel\/\">Stat Wizard<\/a> which will do the same thing for statistics: it&#8217;ll figure out what to do with your data. Does it need an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/hypothesis-testing\/two-way-anova-with-replication\/\">ANOVA<\/a> or an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/hypothesis-testing\/f-test-two-sample\/\">f test<\/a> or a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/hypothesis-testing\/two-sample-t-test\/\">t test<\/a> or whatever? Then it&#8217;ll go figure all that out and present that information to you. I&#8217;m trying to simple it up.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;We also have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/quality-tools\/chart-wizard\/\">Chart Wizard<\/a>, we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/process-change-wizard\/\">Process Change Wizard<\/a> that will detect process changes in your control chart and change the limits automatically; that&#8217;s not dumbing it down, that&#8217;s simpling it up so that everybody can do it. Then we have the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/data-mining-analysis-excel\/data-mining-wizard\/\">Improvement Project Wizard<\/a> that&#8217;ll take raw data and turn all that raw data into whole improvement projects with a click of a button. That used to take me hours and sometimes days to do that manually. I automated it, and now it&#8217;ll do that very quickly. So is that dumbing it down, or is that simpling it up so that everyone can get involved?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Nobody\u2026 let me tell you, nobody wants Six Sigma. What they want are the results they think they&#8217;ll get from implementing Six Sigma. That&#8217;s it. That&#8217;s all they want, right? They don&#8217;t want all that other junk. They want results. They want improvements. They want a bottom line, defect reducing, delay reducing, deviation reducing, profit enhancing and productivity enhancing and patient safety [enhancing results]. They want the good stuff. They want the result of Six Sigma, not Six Sigma itself. Nobody wants that.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight: Simple it up. Let&#8217;s start to improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People often accuse me of trying to take Six Sigma and dumb it down. No. I&rsquo;m trying to Simple It UP. 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