Podcast #323 – Davis Balestracci on “Data Sanity”

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I first met Davis Balestracci at a conference a few years back, where I heard him give a very spirited and insightful presentation. That's why I'm happy to have him as my guest for Episode #323 of the podcast.

We'll talk about a range of topics, including some of the key lessons that you'll find in his book (as a much deeper dive than we can get into here) Data Sanity: A Quantum Leap to Unprecedented Results (2nd edition). Davis has been a long-time columnist for Quality Digest, and you'll hear his thoughts on Process Behavior Charts, W. Edwards Deming, Lean Six Sigma, and more.

From his bio: “Davis has a BS degree in chemical engineering and an MS degree in statistics, yet describes himself as a “right-brained” statistician:  his Myers-Briggs profile is INFP and he is a pipe organist who done graduate work in conducting.”

I hope you enjoy the discussion as much as I did. You can find his website here.

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For a link to this episode, refer people to www.leanblog.org/323.

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Topics and notes for this episode:

  • Find Davis on social media
  • Please introduce yourself to the audience… how did you get involved in Quality Improvement work”
  • “All work is a process” – do healthcare people have trouble seeing that?
  • Your book is Data Sanity – what's some of the current-state “insanity” that you see out there?
    • Is “more data” always more helpful or does that increase the “insanity?”
  • When I was in Don Wheeler's seminar last week, he talked a lot about the real-world limitations of classical descriptive statistics (as taught in college classes or Six Sigma courses) – what are your thoughts on that?
  • What are “hidden special causes?”
  • What is “cultural psychology?”
  • What if Lean would look at data as a process?
  • Deming's 14 points are a “synergistic system”
  • Heero Hacquebord
  • QBQ: Question Behind the Question
  • Brian Joiner's “Team Handbook

Videos of Davis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8a5P1kHCf8

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Mark Graban
Mark Graban is an internationally-recognized consultant, author, and professional speaker, and podcaster with experience in healthcare, manufacturing, and startups. Mark's new book is The Mistakes That Make Us: Cultivating a Culture of Learning and Innovation. He is also the author of Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More, the Shingo Award-winning books Lean Hospitals and Healthcare Kaizen, and the anthology Practicing Lean. Mark is also a Senior Advisor to the technology company KaiNexus.

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