Tag: Red Bead

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...

Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #525 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Christopher R. Chapman. He's...

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...

I got back Sunday morning from my first trip to Brazil. I had a great time last week as a guest of a company...

Quite often, I used the famed "Red Bead Game" (a.k.a. the "Red Bead Experiment") that was made famous by W. Edwards Deming. Here are my...

This post is Part Three of a series on using Process Behavior Charts for snapshot comparisons (of individuals, departments, or organizations) instead of the...

Why do we have to be skeptical or careful when we see a chart with just four data points? Does such limited data help prove that our consulting work or our Lean Sigma project has made a difference?

I'll be teaching my "Better Metrics" workshop (aka "Measures of Success," ala my book) twice in June: Cambridge Investments - Open for Public Registration (Fairfield, Iowa) -- June 5 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit (Chicago) -- June 13 After facilitating the Red Bead Experiment in the workshop, one other way I've found to simulate variation is an online simulation that's available, of all places, on the BBC website: "Can chance make you a killer?"

Back in 2007, I wrote a blog post that highlighted (if not mocked) so-called "quality posters" that are, I suppose, intended to be helpful: https://www.leanblog.org/2007/04/krazy-kwality-posters/ Ten...

As Eric wrote about in The Lean Startup (and as many others say), time is the most precious commodity anybody has. I think that's true in startups and it's true in other organizations. Everybody says they don't have enough time. So, we have to use it wisely.

This year, I have the opportunity to run the W. Edwards Deming "Red Bead Experiment" at Lean Startup Week in San Francisco, with the...

A returning guest today for episode #280 is John Dyer, president of his consulting firm, JD&A, Inc., and a contributor for IndustryWeek.com. Today, our focus is the famed "Red Bead Experiment." We'll talk about it, he'll share memories of Dr. Deming facilitating this, and we'll both share and discuss our reflections and our experiences with this, and the lessons learned.