Tag: Metrics

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When executives have to mentally draw trend lines in their heads just to make sense of performance data, something's broken. That's the reality in...

Given the title of this post, this is NOT advice related to driving and traffic (or other transportation situations where red lights mean "stop"). I'm...

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When I first began working with KaiNexus a long time ago, I was excited to find opportunities to share methods that had been transformative...

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Charts like this always make me wonder why we throw away the additional context of data from 2016 when we start the 2017 chart. It's unlikely that January 1st in any given year is the magical creation of a new system or a new process. In other words, January 2017 was likely the same process as December 2016. The annual cutoffs are arbitrary. Sure, people are accustomed to thinking in annual cycles, but is this helpful for improvement?

I'm all for visualizing data and performance measures in the form of a chart. Charts are far better visuals than "bowlers" or "bowling charts,"...

When analyzing data, it's essential to avoid drawing conclusions from too few data points. This principle is crucial whether you're looking at TV ratings,...

Two data points are not a trend. Two-data-point comparisons can be mathematically correct but practically meaningless. This is true in workplaces and news articles like...

Today, April 1st, is a day for BIG announcements. I am pleased to tell you about the logical (if not inevitable) follow-up to my...

I recently saw this article in the Washington Post: This MLB season, the ball is making everyone batty Major League Baseball has been trying to reduce...