Tag: Process Behavior Charts

In May 2024, we celebrated the 100th anniversary of Walter A. Shewhart's creation of the first control chart--a landmark that laid the foundation for...

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...

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...

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

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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,"...