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Improve quality by learning from your process data – a review of “Twenty Things You Need to Know” by Donald J. Wheeler
Donald Wheeler has over forty years of experience in the study, practice and collaboration in data analysis. In “Twenty Things You Need to Know”, he shares this experience in the form of questions and answers. What are two mistakes in data analysis? Mistake one: “Interpreting the routine variation of noise as if it amounted to…
Help for you on your systems thinking journey – A review of “Thinking in Systems: A Primer” by Donella H. Meadows
“Thinking in Systems: Primer” is a great resource that can help you whether you are beginning, or have already started your systems thinking journey. Meadows helps us understand what a system is. “A system is an interconnected set of elements that is coherently organised in a way that achieves something”[1]. “Once we see the relationship…
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