The other day I was showing a colleague the Data Cost / Value Matrix and describing the four aspects of data value. He made a comment that got me thinking. I was explaining the fourth aspect of data value: Data Visibility and Transparency when he said: “For my...
There is an old story about Dr. W. Edwards Deming from back in the mid 1980s when he was working with the big three auto companies. I don’t know if it is true, but the story goes that someone asked him: “Dr. Deming – fifty years from now, which...
As I talk to people in many different businesses, I’m often amazed at how much time they spend extracting, massaging, and scrubbing data for analysis and reporting. I call this “The Data Shuffle”. A friend of mine at Minitab calls it “The stuff...
I’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’ve bumped into...
A couple weeks ago I published an audio interview with Jay Bronec about his ‘Ah-Ha’ Moment when he realized that he was spending valuable company time doing non-value-added work. In that interview he described how he is automating his company’s...
Recently Larry Coburn, the Sr. VP of Operations at Crown Audio, gave a presentation at the Aberdeen Manufacturing Excellence Summit. We recorded his talk, and you can watch it online. I really enjoyed Larry’s talk because he doesn’t pull any punches. He...
