Written by Rick Haynes on December 29, 2011 – 10:49 am
You will find a lot of complaints about Red/Yellow/Green (RYG) scorecards on this Blog and in the writings of Forrest Breyfogle. Most of the complaints relate to the decision to set the color based on an arbitrary set of goals. The adoption of the RYG format implies a stop sign type behavior: Stop if Red, [...]
Written by Rick Haynes on December 27, 2011 – 5:19 pm
As I traveled for the Christmas Holiday this year I was in Seattle, near where I grew up. It is a long ways from Texas where I currently live. All of the people I saw were living their lives with very little conception of the world outside of their hometown, possibly just what can be [...]
Written by Rick Haynes on December 18, 2011 – 2:38 pm
I responded to a Linked-in posting today, about validating Minitab, since that has been an assignment I was given about 6 years ago. At that time I was asked to validate both Minitab and Excel for use in statistical analysis for the Department of Energy site that I was working. We were not allowed to [...]
Written by Rick Haynes on December 17, 2011 – 1:55 am
Smarter Solutions provides one of the most comprehensive Lean Six Sigma training curricula (maybe the most) out there today. While many providers have dumbed down their courses to ensure everyone passes and gets certified, Forrest Breyfogle has not let that happen at Smarter Solutions. In February, 2012, Smarter Solutions is offering to the public an [...]
Written by Rick Haynes on December 15, 2011 – 6:02 pm
Jon Hansen, a past client and consultant to our company posted a blog on SEO efforts, stating that they do not work. It can be found at his blog with a title of Actual examples demonstrating why SEO is more hype than substance. I wrote my blog to show that our experience follows his. Like [...]
Written by Rick Haynes on December 10, 2011 – 7:23 am
If you happen to be a formula person and like to refer to the statistical tables that you have in your statistics books, then I have a deal for you! I have created all of the standard statistics tables (normal, t, f, chi-square) using excel and have made it available for downloading. You may be [...]
Written by Rick Haynes on December 3, 2011 – 6:59 am
We deal with change in every Lean Six Sigma project. In many of my personal projects the people issues in the way they dealt with the change were harder to deal with than solving the business problem. You may have experienced similar experiences. I bring this up because the US is going through a difficulty [...]
Written by Rick Haynes on December 2, 2011 – 9:50 am
It is not often that I read an article that makes me go AHA! now I know why I believe something. This article by Daniel B. Botkin in the Wall Street Journal titled “Absolute Certainty Is Not Scientific” , in todays paper, is one of those articles, well it is really an opinion piece. I [...]
Written by Rick Haynes on December 1, 2011 – 4:36 pm
I had a talk with a past student this week about the problems that their IT organization was having in writing a problem statement for a DMAIC improvement effort. After talking about their issues, I came to realize that there was an issue because IT was a support group without out any real business relationship. [...]