{"id":7650,"date":"2025-08-26T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7650"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:14:21","slug":"the-ikea-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/the-ikea-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"The IKEA Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The time and effort we spend on something seems to make us value it more. But what if there&#8217;s an easier way? It applies to Six Sigma more than you might think.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1067802732?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-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;You know, we celebrate Labor Day, and it&#8217;s all about workers. I was reading a book called \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Friction-Project-Leaders-Things-Easier\/dp\/1250284414\">The Friction Project<\/a>,\u2019 which was recommended by a friend; [in that book] they talk about \u2018the Ikea effect.\u2019 If you know anything about Ikea, you go in, you shop around, you look for something, you see a nice bed\u2026 well, you buy a kit and then you assemble it.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Well, guess what? We attribute more value to things we help assemble. The things that take longer seem to be more valuable.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I want you to get this idea that in Lean and Six Sigma are all these extended two-week and four-week Green Belt and Black Belt programs that make you invested, and you think that&#8217;s how it has to be. You&#8217;ve earned the &#8216;creds,&#8217; but guess what? What if you could learn the key tools you need in a day and start making improvements? Maybe that&#8217;s a better way to go. I&#8217;m telling you, the \u2018kaching\u2019 you get from making improvements\u2026 (you know, it&#8217;s probably the most fun you can have with your clothes on) &#8230;is going out and using data to solve problems that seemed impossible to solve.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight; let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week&#8230; like let&#8217;s not attribute too much value to how much time we spend at doing something.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The time and effort we spend on something seems to make us value it more. But what if there&rsquo;s an easier way? It applies to Six Sigma more than you might think. &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma Demystified&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;You know, we celebrate Labor Day, and it&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[624,170],"class_list":["post-7650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvement-insights","tag-ikea-effect","tag-six-sigma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650","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=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}