{"id":7973,"date":"2025-12-30T01:16:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7973"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:45:15","slug":"do-complex-things-seem-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/do-complex-things-seem-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Complex Things Seem Smarter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Do complex things seem smarter or just unnecessarily complicated?<\/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 &#8211; 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\/1123948919?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;Does it seem like we think complex things, complex writing, complex ideas are smarter? Or are they just incomprehensible? And isn&#8217;t that just dumb? What if we could simplify how we think about things?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve attempted to do with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\">Agile Process Innovation<\/a> is make improvement more accessible to the average Joe or Susie. You know, people have taken my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/\">Yellow Belt training<\/a> and gone out and saved millions of dollars\u2026 millions of dollars. So, let&#8217;s not just accept that complexity is the way everything has to be done.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I saw one guy &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_DeMarco\">Tom DeMarco<\/a> &#8211; long ago, in software development. He said, &#8220;Making something complex simple is a huge intellectual feat.&#8221; Going from complex to simple, straightforward, understandable, that&#8217;s a huge intellectual feat.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So, stop regurgitating complexity. Find a way to say it simply.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do complex things seem smarter or just unnecessarily complicated? Download my free ebook, Agile Process Innovation &ndash; Hacking Lean Six Sigma for Results. &#65279; &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;Does it seem like we think complex things, complex writing, complex ideas are smarter? 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