Tag: Process Behavior Charts

Two Kinds of Mistakes–and the Wisdom of Shewhart, 100 Years Later

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Recently, I saw someone reference a chapter from Dr. W. Edwards Deming's book Out of the Crisis on LinkedIn--Chapter 11, titled "Common Causes and...

Don’t Make Leaders Do Mental Gymnastics With Your Performance Measures

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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...

Excited to Facilitate a Workshop at AME 2025: Deming, Red Beads...

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I'm honored to share that my workshop, "The Deming Red Bead Game & Process Behavior Charts: Practical Applications for Lean Management," has been accepted...

Stop Reacting to Red Light Metrics: Why ‘Two Reds in a...

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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...

From Chaos to Clarity: How a Health System CEO Used Process...

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"Every month, we're buried in data--and yet somehow, we're still arguing over whether there's actually a problem." That was the problem statement shared with me...

Red Bead Game Reflections: From Atlanta to Australia and Auckland

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So far in 2025, I've had the opportunity to facilitate the Red Bead Game in a variety of settings--from the Society for Health Systems...

Join Me at HSPI 2025: Red Beads, Lean Leadership, and Smarter...

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I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be presenting a 90-minute "intensive" session at the 2025 Health Systems Process Improvement (HSPI) conference, organized by the...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 24, 2025

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Thanks, as always, to Ryan McCormack for this. He always shares so much good reading, listening, and viewing here! Subscribe to get these directly...

From Noise to Clarity and Focus: How KaiNexus Learned to Focus...

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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...

Process Behavior Charts: The Christmas Tale / Le Conte de Noël...

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Two years ago, I received an unexpected and incredibly specific Christmas gift from Charles Desneuf on LinkedIn. He wrote a PDF eBook about Process...

Why Process Behavior Charts are the Best Way to Visualize (and...

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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,"...

Preview of Mark Graban’s AME Australia “Road Show” in 2025; Improving...

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more Welcome to this bonus session of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, originally recorded as a LinkedIn...
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