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Why is Innovation “Quality for Tomorrow”?
This morning, I went to an event hosted by Joyce Krech of the Shenandoah Valley Business Development Center (SBDC), a fantastic organization that helps to connect people in our local area to build new ventures, create new value, and promote local and regional economic development. I shared a little bit of the story of the ASQ…
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Typing x-bar, y-bar, p-hat, q-hat, and all that! In Microsoft Word (& Excel)
I use Microsoft Word to prepare documents. I do not like Microsoft Equation Editor. And I have to type equations and expressions not often (like every sentence or every other sentence), but definitely regularly. This has led me to apply what I like to call “agile shortcuts” — basically, I’ll write down the equation in…
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Typing x-bar, y-bar, p-hat, q-hat, and all that! In Microsoft Word
I use Microsoft Word to prepare documents. I do not like Microsoft Equation Editor. And I have to type equations and expressions not often (like every sentence or every other sentence), but definitely regularly. This has led me to apply what I like to call “agile shortcuts” — basically, I’ll write down the equation in…
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Type I Error, Type II Error, and Power Analysis in R
At some point in the life of most quality engineers, quality managers, and Six Sigma Black Belts and practitioners — you will have to compute an appropriate sample size to ensure that the results from your study will be statistically significant. To achieve this, you might have to perform a power analysis (which I know sounds really scary,…
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Extreme Innovation: Practical Lessons from Burning Man
One of my goals as a scholar is: I want to understand what makes the Burning Man environment such a petri dish for cultivating and catalyzing true innovation. “Innovation” has become such an overused and diluted term that I get really excited when I see and feel it happening all around me — independent of the traditional…
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Value Proposition Design: A Fun and Engaging (New!) Guidebook
I just finished reviewing Alex Osterwalder‘s new book, Value Proposition Design, for ASQ’s Quality Management Journal. Although my review won’t be published until January 2015, this is such a refreshing and exciting book that I wanted to make sure all of you know about it now: because it will be available on Amazon tomorrow (Monday, October 20th)!…
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Strategic Planning and To-Do Lists… with EASE
In his September post to the Influential Voices, ASQ CEO Bill Troy discusses principles for effective strategic planning, gleaned from his years of experience with the U.S. Army. He also asks what principles we’ve found useful. Today, I’d like to share a little heuristic that Ron DuPlain and I came up with over lunch several…
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