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Continue reading →: Deming’s 14 Points Revisited. Twice.
After responding to the December 2014 discussion question to the Influential Voices from ASQ CEO Bill Troy, I’m thinking more about the question “Is Quality Ambitious Enough?” that he posed. In particular, I’m thinking about an article that was published in the December 2014 issue of Quality Progress. The subtitle…
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Continue reading →: Is Quality Ambitious Enough?
“We must reject the idea — well intentioned, but dead wrong- that the primary path to greatness in the social sectors is to become “more like a business.” — Jim Collins in Good to Great In December, ASQ CEO Bill Troy asked “Is Quality Ambitious Enough?” He cites a recent…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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