Tag: Process Behavior Charts
Why Process Behavior Charts are the Best Way to Visualize (and...
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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Welcome to this bonus session of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, originally recorded as a LinkedIn...
Beyond the Color Code: Using Process Behavior Charts for Deeper Insights...
Are Your Charts Leading You to the Wrong Conclusions?
Data is everywhere in today's organizations, but are we using it in the most effective way?...
Why Two (or Four) Data Points Aren’t a Trend: Analyzing Olympic...
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,...
Why Two-Year Comparisons in MLB Stats Fall Short: The Power of...
Two-Year Comparisons in Major League Baseball Stats: A Strikeout, not a Homer
It's just over halfway through the 2024 Major League Baseball season. Tuesday is...
Why Two Data Points Don’t Show Trends: Understanding the Importance of...
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...
Celebrating 100 Years of Shewhart’s Control Charts: A Century of Quality...
"A 'special cause' for celebration."
Brian Buck, on LinkedIn
TODAY marks the centennial of one of the most significant innovations in quality management: the control chart....
Analyzing MLB Tommy John Surgeries: Data Insights and Trends from 2000-2024
tl;dr summary: This post examines the trend of Tommy John surgeries in MLB and MiLB using Process Behavior Charts, revealing that the perceived surge...
Oscars Viewership and Ratings: Unveiling the True Story Behind the Numbers...
Ah, it's another year of the Academy Awards. And that means, not surprisingly, another year with news articles that don't show much understanding of...
Happy 5th Birthday to “Measures of Success,” Print Edition
Today is the 5th anniversary of the release of my book Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More!! The book was originally...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 26, 2024
Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...
Is Andre Drummond Sustaining His Free Throw Improvements? [Updated 2023]
Last year, I looked at the free throw statistics of Andre Drummond of the Detroit Pistons. News headlines talked about how much he had improved his free throws, so I looked at one of his performance metrics (free throw percentage) to see if the increase was "signal" or "noise."
Why write about basketball? Well, there are lessons that we can learn and apply to our own workplace metrics, as I write about in my book Measures of Success: React Less, Lead Better, Improve More.
