{"id":8063,"date":"2026-02-03T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:58:58","slug":"qi-macros-is-easy-to-teach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/qi-macros-is-easy-to-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"QI Macros is Easy To Teach"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Several QI Macros users came up to me at the IHI Conference and said: &#8220;QI Macros is Easy To Teach!&#8221; That&#8217;s when I realized I&#8217;ve always been chasing that dream.<\/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\/1151037048?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;I was out at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihi.org\/\">Institute for Healthcare Improvement<\/a> conference and a guy came up to me and he said, &#8220;I love QI Macros. I love the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/control-chart-wizard\/\">Control Chart Wizard<\/a>.&#8221; He said, &#8220;And it&#8217;s so easy to teach. You know, I have the residents and internists just select data with the mouse, click a button, get a chart&#8230; select data, click a button, get a chart\u2026 the Control Chart Wizard will pick it automatically. They don&#8217;t need to know a lot of stuff. I can teach it in nanoseconds.\u201d Well, that&#8217;s a good story right there.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now, then later another attendee came up and said, &#8220;I love QI Macros&#8230; but I have trouble teaching nurses and staff because I&#8217;m trying to explain to them what an average is and how you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/free-excel-tips\/control-chart-limits\/\">calculate the control limits<\/a>.&#8221; And I said, &#8220;Stop. Why are you doing that? They don&#8217;t need to know that.\u201d They don&#8217;t need to know how you calculate limits and center lines and all that stuff. All they need to know is: Is the process stable? Is it going unstable\u2026 right? Is it trending one way or another? That&#8217;s all they need to know. What does the chart tell you?<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Stop teaching people statistics. They don&#8217;t need to know statistics to do this. They just need software like QI Macros that&#8217;ll automate all of that stuff for you, and then they can look at the chart and it&#8217;ll tell them something they need to know about how things are performing.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s stop teaching people things they don&#8217;t need to know to solve problems they don&#8217;t have to impress people they don&#8217;t like. 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