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Check Sheets

by Pete Abilla August 31, 2010
This entry is part 28 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

A Check Sheet is one of the Seven (7) Basic Quality Tools. A Check Sheet is a simple tool for data collection. In this post, I’ll show how to create and use a Check Sheet and provide some basic heuristics and common pitfalls of Check Sheet and data collection overall. A Check Sheet allows us [...]

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Your Baby is Ugly

by Pete Abilla August 30, 2010

No, we’re not talking about children or infants here. We’re talking about people who are so invested in their idea, business, and process, which results in hyper tunnel vision and they begin to believe the fantasy that their [enter "whatever" here] is the best and cannot get better. Calling that [thing] imperfect is analogous to [...]

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Red Bead Experiment: Part 6

by Pete Abilla August 30, 2010
This entry is part 26 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

This is Part 6 of 6 of the Deming Red Bead Video Tutorial. The Red Bead Experiment by Dr. W. Edwards Deming Pete Abilla www.shmula.com Product Review Aug 30, 2010 Rating: 5/5 An amazing and incredibly simple game that illustrates so many important management principles and also principles of process improvement. I promise you – [...]

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Red Bead Experiment: Part 5

by Pete Abilla August 28, 2010
This entry is part 25 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

This is Part 5 of 6 of the Deming Red Bead Video Tutorial. The Red Bead Experiment by Dr. W. Edwards Deming Pete Abilla www.shmula.com Product Review Aug 28, 2010 Rating: 5/5 An amazing and incredibly simple game that illustrates so many important management principles and also principles of process improvement. I promise you – [...]

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Kaizen: They Must Increase, I Must Decrease

by Pete Abilla August 26, 2010

The true spirit of Kaizen isn’t just about improving the organization, but it is also in teaching, guiding, and in effectively stretching people beyond their current capabilities. Indeed, it is in developing people and in increasing their capability to contribute and add value. Staying true to the spirit of Kaizen has a few implications on [...]

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Red Bead Experiment: Part 4

by Pete Abilla August 26, 2010
This entry is part 23 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

This is Part 4 of 6 of the Deming Red Bead Experiment Video Tutorial. But, before we get to the Red Bead Video Tutorial, here are some famous quotes of Dr. W. Edwards Deming. Famous Quotes of Dr. W. Edwards Deming “Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or [...]

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Red Bead Experiment: Part 3

by Pete Abilla August 24, 2010
This entry is part 22 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

This is Part 3 of the Deming Red Bead Experiment Video Tutorial. But, before the tutorial, below is a biography of Dr. W. Edwards Deming (credit to the deming.org), the creator of the Red Bead Experiment. Biography of Dr. W. Edwards Deming William Edwards Deming was born in Sioux City, Iowa on 14 October 1900 [...]

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Red Bead Experiment: Part 2

by Pete Abilla August 23, 2010
This entry is part 19 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

Part 1 explained the Red Bead Experiment. In Part 2, I’ll share the a video tutorial on the Red Bead Experiment – part 2 of that video series. Before we get to the video, below are Dr. Deming’s Fourteen Points – the principles by which he practiced management and quality management. Deming Fourteen Points “Create [...]

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Red Bead Experiment: Part 1

by Pete Abilla August 22, 2010
This entry is part 2 of 28 in the series Lean and Six Sigma

The Red Bead Experiment is a metaphor for problems, where the red beads represent “bad” and white represent “good”. It is a teaching tool mostly used in manufacturing or instruction in quality management. The Red Bead Experiment was created by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, the person who influenced Toyota who, later, would develop The Toyota [...]

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