Thursday, September 28, 2017

Misunderstanding improvement

From Johnny Hart's B.C. cartoon strip.

I used to use this working with Reengineering and Quality Improvement teams in the 1990s to make the point that goal definition and measurement which are anchored in real customer needs are critical to understand improvement. Sometimes increases in nominal efficiency (one less bump) subverts real effectiveness (smooth transportation).

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