{"id":8111,"date":"2026-03-10T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=8111"},"modified":"2026-02-18T15:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:25:34","slug":"how-to-save-5000-with-qi-macros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/how-to-save-5000-with-qi-macros\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Save $5,000 with QI Macros"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>There are at least four ways to save $5,000 quickly with QI Macros, not including all of the improvements you can make. Here&#8217;s how:<\/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\/1163292290?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>. I want to give you some ideas about how you could save $5,000 for your company.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;First off, if you&#8217;re using Minitab, they increased their price to $1,850 a year. Over a three-year period, that&#8217;s over $5,500. Right now, you could buy QI Macros for under $400 and save $5,000. Now, I&#8217;m not saying Minitab is a bad product. No, it&#8217;s a great product. I just think it&#8217;s overkill for most Quality Improvement folks.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now, we also have a lot of Black Belts and Master Black Belts who say, &#8220;Hey, we love QI Macros and we use it most of the time and every once in a while we have to fall back and pull out Minitab to do something exotic like a special DOE or something. But then we have to remember how to use the thing and that takes a little while.&#8221; What we&#8217;ve found, and what these people have found, is that QI Macros makes them wickedly more productive when they&#8217;re in Excel. That alone is worth $5,000 because your Black Belts are not cheap.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now there\u2019s a dirty little secret nobody talks about: In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma\/DMAIC\/\">DMAIC <\/a>the last step is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/put-the-c-in-dmaic\/\">Control phase<\/a>, which you&#8217;re going to need <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/control-chart-wizard\/\">control charts<\/a> for. I can tell you, based on everything everybody tells me, nobody but nobody is going to spin up $1,850 a year so that somebody on a team can refresh a chart every so often, a control chart. You could give those people QI Macros for less than $400. For the next three years, that [averages to] $130 [per year]. We find most people upgrade QI Macros every 3 years because Microsoft upgrades Excel every 3 years. So that seems to be the time frame or window in which that occurs. So that could save you $5,000 right there because otherwise your improvement will slide back to the way it was, and that was a waste of time and energy. I hear that too often.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Now, if you&#8217;re training new belts, I believe that QI Macros can cut a day or more off of any training because our wizards (our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/control-chart\/control-chart-wizard\/\">Control Chart Wizard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/hypothesis-testing\/statistics-wizard-excel\/\">Stat Wizard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/quality-tools\/chart-wizard\/\">Chart Wizard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/data-mining-analysis-excel\/data-mining-wizard\/\">Improvement Project Wizard<\/a>, and all the other wizards that are in there) can collapse the time it takes to learn a lot of these things: decision trees and so on. In a class that has more than six people, the loaded rate for a for a person is probably $800\/day times 6 to 7 people is $5,000. For less than $400 [per person], you can get these people going very quickly, and that&#8217;s worth at least $5,000 per class, and ongoing as people continue to use it throughout their career.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s like four different ways you could save $5,000 using QI Macros, and you could do that today. It&#8217;s just not that hard. But it&#8217;s up to you; only you can decide if you want to help your company save $5,000. Any one of these different ways or all of them. Maybe you could save 5, 10, 15, $20,000. I don&#8217;t know. That&#8217;ll pay for a lot of stuff.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s my Improvement Insight. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week, like how we spend money on SPC software.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are at least four ways to save $5,000 quickly with QI Macros, not including all of the improvements you can make. Here&rsquo;s how: 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 Demystified&rdquo; and QI Macros [software]. 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