Improvement Insights Blog
You Already Have All The Data You Need
Don’t try and invent new data. There’s a lot of data out there you can use right now, today, to make an improvement. Here’s how:
“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals” and QI Macros [software].
“All too often, I see people try to follow DMAIC: “Well, we’re going to Define, and then we’ve got to go find some Measurements and spin up some measurements…”
“I’m telling you that every company in this world is awash in data about how things work. There’s tons of data out there, okay? Go find data that exists about a problem that you have, and use the data that’s already there to solve [that problem] and improve that process.
“Don’t try and invent new data. That’s dumb. There’s plenty of data. If you run out of data then go invent something new, but there’s a lot of data out there you can use right now, today, to make an improvement. That’s why every week I say, “Let’s go out and improve something this week,” because there’s stuff we can do this week. There’s data right there; we can just grab it and go.
“That’s my Improvement Insight. Let’s go out and improve something this week… and use the data you’ve already got.”
