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Tag Archives: experiments
Interview of Bill Hunter: Statistical Variability and Interactions
Interview of Bill Hunter on Statistical Variability and Interactions by Peter Scholtes, 1986: In this interview Bill Hunter describes how results are made up of the impact and interactions of many variables. Many of those variables we don’t know about … Continue reading
Posted in Data, Management, Statistics, webcast
Tagged Bill Hunter, experiments, interview, learning, Peter Scholtes, Statistics, variation, webcast
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Understanding Design of Experiments (DoE) in Protein Purification
This webcast, from GE Life Sciences, seeks to provide an understanding Design of Experiments (DoE) using an example of protein purification. It begins with a good overview of the reason why multi-factorial experiments must be used while changing multiple factors … Continue reading
Posted in Design of Experiments
Tagged Data, Design of Experiments, experiments, Health care, robust, Six sigma
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Transform the Management System by Experimenting, Iterating and Adopting Standard Work
In this short video, Dr. John Toussaint describes how ThedaCare applied leadership standard work to create a successful management transformation. The changes to the management system were tested by applying standard work for all positions in 2 parts of the … Continue reading
Posted in Management, webcast
Tagged change, experiments, leadership, management system, standardization, transformation, webcast
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George Box Webcast on Statistical Design in Quality Improvement
George Box lecture on Statistical Design in Quality Improvement at the Second International Tampere Conference in Statistics, University of Tampere, Finland (1987). Early on he shows a graph showing the problems with American cars steady over a 10 years period. … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Data, Innovation, Management, Process improvement, Psychology, Quality tools, Science, Statistics
Tagged control chart, Design of Experiments, Europe, experiments, George Box, interactions, learning, management history, Process improvement, Quality tools, Science, Statistics, webcast
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Interview on PDSA, Deming, Strategy and More
Bill Fox interviewed me and has posted part one of the interview on his web site: Predicting Results in the Planning Stage (sorry, the link has been hijacked to forward to an unrelated page [so obviously I removed the link], … Continue reading
Taking Risks Based on Evidence
My opinion has long been that football teams are too scared to take an action that is smart but opens the coach to criticism. So instead of attempting to make it on 4th down (if you don’t understand American football, … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Creativity, Data, Innovation, Management, Psychology
Tagged Creativity, evidence based management, experiments, fear, Innovation, leadership, Psychology, risk, sports
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Resources for Using the PDSA Cycle to Improve Results
Using the PDSA cycle (plan-do-study-act) well is critical to building a effective management system. This post provides some resources to help use the improvement cycle well. I have several posts on this blog about using the PDSA cycle to improve … Continue reading
Jeff Bezos: Innovation, Experiments and Long Term Thinking
Jeff Bezos, bought the Washington Post. He has long showed a willingness to take a long term view at Amazon. He is taking that same thinking to the Washington Post: In my experience, the way invention, innovation and change happen … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Customer focus, Innovation, Process improvement
Tagged Bezos, business, business model, Customer focus, experiments, long term thinking, PDSA, Quality tools
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Design of Experiments: The Process of Discovery is Iterative
This video is another excerpt on the design of experiments videos by George Box, see previous posts: Introduction to Fractional Factorial Designed Experiments and The Art of Discovery. This video looks at learning about experimental design using paper helicopters (the … Continue reading
What is the Explanation Going to be if This Attempt Fails?
Occasionally during my career I have been surprised by new insights. One of the things I found remarkable was how quickly I thought up a new explanation for what could have caused a problem when the previously expressed explanation was … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Innovation, Management, Process improvement, quote, Software Development, Systems thinking
Tagged Creativity, curiouscat, experiments, John Hunter, problem solving, Psychology, Software Development, tips
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