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	<title>The Data Heads &#187; Six Sigma</title>
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		<title>Data driven &#8211; NOT &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2009/07/data-driven-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Value - Data Cost]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four quadrants of data driven-ness.]]></description>
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		<title>LinkedIn discussion on the Six Sigma Data Shuffle&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2009/04/linkedin-discussion-six-sigma-data-shuffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the LinkedIn Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma &#38; Lean Group, I posted a discussion question that generated some great responses. Here was my original question:
Lean Six Sigma practitioner&#8217;s ad hoc data survey
Recently I was talking with a black belt who told me &#8220;I know exactly what you mean by the data shuffle. Three hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership and personality&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2009/04/leadership-and-personality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forrest Breyfogle posted a great question over at Linked-In:
Does our corporate leadership&#8217;s relationship-building strengths make it a challenge for them to truly understand and resolve the fundamental system improvement and re-engineering needs of the financial crisis?
From examination of the myers-briggs personality types we note that not everyone thinks the same. One observation is that some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business intelligence not what it can be&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2009/04/business-intelligence-not-what-it-can-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2009/04/business-intelligence-not-what-it-can-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Plastics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[drill down]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article on SearchDataManagement.com about a Gartner Group conference on Business Intelligence (BI) discusses the fact that business intelligence is probably the number one priority for CIOs, but most companies have not translated that prioritization into high value.
That conclusion doesn&#8217;t surprise me. I&#8217;ve been arguing for sometime that most businesses under-utilize their data assets. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting my forehead with the palm of my hand&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2009/03/hitting-my-forehead-with-the-palm-of-my-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aberdeen Research Report]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[data driven]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple years ago we sponsored a research report by the Aberdeen Group on best practices in Six Sigma deployments. You can download a copy of the report, and a companion white paper that I wrote for the report called &#8220;Leveraging Technology to Transform Culture.&#8221; For me the most astonishing thing about that 2006 report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selecting Statistical Software for Six Sigma&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2009/01/selecting-statistical-software-for-six-sigma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[control chart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Neil Polhemus, CTO at StatPoint Technologies (and publisher of StatGraphics) contributed a great article in the current issue of Quality Magazine about selecting statistical software for Six Sigma. In it he lists four criteria for selecting the right statistical package:

How strong a background in statistics does the typical operator have?
What types of data are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you are doing the &#8220;Data Shuffle&#8221;, do not show this to your boss</title>
		<link>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2008/12/doing-the-data-shuffle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Data Value - Data Cost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Payback / ROI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ROI]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I talk to people in many different businesses, I&#8217;m often amazed at how much time they spend extracting, massaging, and scrubbing data for analysis and reporting. I call this &#8220;The Data Shuffle&#8220;. A friend of mine at Minitab calls it &#8220;The stuff we do that we call our job.&#8221;
My informal surveys of Six Sigma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enabling Integrated Enterprise Excellence&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2008/12/enabling-integrated-enterprise-excellence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2008/12/enabling-integrated-enterprise-excellence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been following Forrest Breyfogle for some time. You may know that he came out with a couple of the definitive text books for the Six Sigma DMAIC process several years ago. I have a couple of them on my shelf.
In the last few months, I&#8217;ve bumped into Breyfogle at a couple of conferences and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Explorers or Settlers &#8211; Is Six Sigma DMAIC Linear or Cyclical?</title>
		<link>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2008/12/is-six-sigma-a-linear-or-cyclical-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hertzler.com/blog/dataheads/index.php/2008/12/is-six-sigma-a-linear-or-cyclical-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evan Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Data Value - Data Cost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SPC software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Downard had a great post last week on the iSixSigma blog about the maturation of Six Sigma. He argues that Six Sigma has an &#8220;Act II&#8221; problem. Act II is all about institutionalizing Six Sigma so that it actually delivers on it&#8217;s promise. Downard argues that the skill set required for Act II is [...]]]></description>
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