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		<title>Managing meetings: Advice from the Wall Street Journal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 14:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading an article in the Wall Street Journal titled &#8220;Meet the Meeting Killers&#8221; by Sue Shellenbarger on 5/16/2012 and thought that it is great advice for all Lean Six Sigma practitioners.  Click on the link and go read the article. There is advice on how to handle four different kinds of people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handling Mixture data in a LSS project</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[baselining a process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lead time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean six sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mixture data]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ever have to deal with process data that includes two separate and distinct process outputs, you have ont learned how much trouble it is to work with.  An example that comes up often is the time to approve changes or purchase orders, where simple ones go quick while complex or high $ ones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Macros to automate Minitab to produce scorecards and metrics.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balanced Scorecard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integrated Enterprise Excellence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance scorecards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Minitab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scorecards]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I promised a few Master Black Belts to provide information of writing Macros in Minitab.  They have described a real labor intensive effort to produce scorecards using Excel macros.  I do understand the issues. You can do a lot with Minitab Macros.  First, there is a help function just for macro functions.  Now that Minitab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on presentating a request for the approval of a significant change at your business.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 02:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[5-whys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean six sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizational Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance indicator]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/?p=1557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Talking with students tonight we expanded on our MBB discussions about the facilitation of change in your business.  There were a lot of great suggestions that will help anyone to improve their success at getting their change approved for Implementation!!! Work with one or two of the participants that will be in the meeting to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Captivate in the teaching of Minitab for lean six sigma as a self-paced training lesson</title>
		<link>http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/2012/04/30/using-captivate-in-the-teaching-of-minitab-for-lean-six-sigma-as-a-self-paced-training-lesson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 01:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blended LSS training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Control Charting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[black belt]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/?p=1546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the development of our upcoming blended learning Black Belt course we found a great software for producing software demonstrations.  Across the e-learning business, it is the choice for nearly all participants. The software is called Captivate and it is an Adobe product.  Since it is an Adobe software, it runs a bit different from standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When is it acceptable to treat attribute data as continuous data?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[performance scorecards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training & Certification]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[attribute data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[continuous data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discrete data]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Integer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean six sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poisson distribution]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[When is it acceptable to treat attribute data as continuous data?]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/?p=1542</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During a Master Black Belt class we examined a data set that involved attendance at ASQ meetings.  We were treating this data as continuous data, which was challenged.  Since the data is a count of people, it is truly an attribute count metric.  It is probability following a Poisson distribution, but I am still going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Logistic Regression &#8211; Residual Analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/2012/04/12/logistic-regression-residual-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 17:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Statistics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Analysis of variance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANOVA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[histogram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logistic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Minitab]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/?p=1534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been working with a client that is needing to model a process that generates attribute data ranging from 100% to 0%, which was not a problem but just part of their process.  Their process was targeted at 50% but different product lines were performing differently but they could not predict the output enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TSA is not lean</title>
		<link>http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/2012/04/03/tsa-is-not-lean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[non value added]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am boarding a flight in Austin this morning and I see the TSA checking people and their carry-on bags at the gate. This check is clearly non-value added, since each of us and our bags were x-rayed within 1.5hrs before the flight. Why re-check us? No answer to this question is acceptable. 1. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relative vs. Absolute percentages</title>
		<link>http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/2012/03/27/relative-vs-absolute-percentages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Integrated Enterprise Excellence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance scorecards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[absolutie percentages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DMAIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean six sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[percentages]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[texas voter id]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal had an article this weekend titled &#8220;When Risk is a Red-Meat Issue&#8221; by Carl Bialik on March 23, 2012.  This may be behind the WSJ pay wall, but if you can read it, please do. The article starts with a study that concluded that eating one serving of red meat per [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons learned on re-introducing Lean Six Sigma into a business</title>
		<link>http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/2012/03/22/lessons-learned-on-re-introducing-lean-six-sigma-into-a-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rick Haynes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Six Sigma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Training & Certification]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[black belt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lean six sigma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[people selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[project selection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smarter solutions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[upgrade]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smartersolutions.com/blog/wordpress/?p=1519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This blog is intended to address issues about re-introducing Lean Six Sigma (LSS) into an organization but would also apply to the initial adoption of LSS practices into a company that has existing Black Belt-trained employees that could be involved in the LSS deployment. When an organization restarts or re-introduces a LSS program, there are [...]]]></description>
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