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The best teams are almost boring to watch.No drama. No late night rescues. Just a steady rhythm, day after day, where th...
20/10/2026

The best teams are almost boring to watch.
No drama. No late night rescues. Just a steady rhythm, day after day, where the work flows and almost nothing goes wrong.
We rarely notice that. We notice the dramatic save and the big fix. The quiet team whose process simply ran all month is not necessarily noticed, because from the outside nothing happened.
But that calm rhythm is not luck. It is the hardest thing to build.
A steady process contains prevention by design.
Catching the small problem while it is still small. Designing the conditions so the defect cannot form. Protecting the rhythm every single day, so the work stays normal and predictable.
In Lean quality should be built in, not inspected in. Reliability is the same. You do not earn a calm process by reacting faster. You earn it by preventing earlier.

Do you notice the drama of the fix, or the discipline that keeps the day normal?

This week two economists won the Nobel for one question. Why does a small shock turn into a boom or a bust?Robert Hall a...
14/10/2026

This week two economists won the Nobel for one question. Why does a small shock turn into a boom or a bust?

Robert Hall and Michael Woodford spent their careers on it. Their answer is uncomfortable, because it is true at work too.

Economies do not swing because the shock is big. They swing because the system amplifies it. A small dip makes people cautious. The caution makes the dip worse. And the slowdown starts to feed itself.

Your operation does the same thing. We even have a name for it. The bullwhip effect.

One late delivery from one supplier becomes a two week scramble three steps down the line. A small change in demand becomes a warehouse full of the wrong stock. One rushed email becomes four teams firefighting by Friday.

The first shock is almost never the real damage. The damage is every stage reacting to the stage before it, a little louder each time.

So before you blame the shock, look at how your process carries it. Does each team absorb a wobble, or pass it on bigger than they got it?

Look at one recent crisis and trace it back to the first small wobble that started it. Then find the step that amplified it instead of calming it. That step is where the fix lives.

When something wobbles upstream, does your process absorb it, or does each team amplify it until it is a crisis?

I forgot part of my luggage in the overhead bin.And while I waited to get it back, seeing piles of lost luggage around m...
12/10/2026

I forgot part of my luggage in the overhead bin.

And while I waited to get it back, seeing piles of lost luggage around me, my mind went to sigma levels.

Here is why.

Airlines mishandle about 6 bags for every 1,000 passengers. In 2024 that was around 33 million bags and it cost the industry roughly 5 billion dollars (SITA). In quality terms, that is about four sigma.

Look also at the other side of the same airline. Safety. In 2024 there was about one accident for every 880,000 flights (IATA). That is better than six sigma.

Same companies. Same people. Same day. Two completely different quality levels.

At first it looks like they are just bad at bags and brilliant at safety. They are not.

They designed it that way.

A lost bag costs a form, an apology and a delivery to your hotel. Annoying, but recoverable. A single accident is unthinkable and can end the airline. So they hold safety at six sigma and above, whatever it costs, and they let baggage sit at four sigma, because chasing six sigma on bags would cost far more than the bags are worth.

We either demand perfection everywhere and burn the team chasing six sigma on a problem that never needed it. Or we run a process that can really hurt someone at the same loose level as one that cannot.

Quality is not about being as high as possible everywhere. It is about matching the sigma level to the cost of failure. The sweet spot is where the cost of improving further is no longer worth the cost of the defect.

List your processes and put a real number next to each one. Not how good is it. But what does one failure actually cost. Then put your effort where the cost is high and stop over polishing where it is low.

Do you prioritize processes by importance to the company’s overall results?

Mercedes spent months and millions on an upgrade. Then they put the OLD car back on track to try to beat it.At the Singa...
10/10/2026

Mercedes spent months and millions on an upgrade. Then they put the OLD car back on track to try to beat it.

At the Singapore Grand Prix, Mercedes did something unusual. They ran two different cars. George Russell on the old specification. Kimi Antonelli on the upgraded one. Same team, same weekend, two versions, side by side.
Why? Because that upgrade was built with everything modern engineering can throw at a car. Wind tunnel. Simulations. Sensors on every surface. Months of data all pointing in one promising direction. And yet, on the real track, it has not delivered what the models promised. As Russell put it, this is a sport driven by the stopwatch and the stopwatch has not been great for the upgrade yet.
So they stopped arguing with the simulation and went to the real environment to find the truth.
This is the trap I see everywhere. We fall in love with the model. The forecast, the business case, the pilot in the lab, the spreadsheet that says it will work. The model is useful. But it is always a simplification. It only contains the variables someone thought to include.
The real environment is never that clean. There is always something that was not measured, not modeled or not even noticed. A track temperature, a small instability, the way a real driver has to push in real conditions. The gap between what the model predicted and what actually happened is not an error to explain away. It is information. And very often, the real opportunity is hiding in exactly that gap.
So go and see. Run it in the real conditions, next to the current way and let reality be the judge, not the simulation.
Today, take one improvement you are sure will work on paper. Before you roll it out everywhere, test it in the real environment, side by side with what you have now. Then study the difference, especially the part your model did not predict.

The real opportunity lies in the factors still not measured!

Photo: Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team

Who is the customer and what does the customer actually expect?Basic questions. They seem easy most of the time.They are...
07/10/2026

Who is the customer and what does the customer actually expect?

Basic questions. They seem easy most of the time.

They are not.

On this Gemba walk, I asked them again, holding a simple bottle of water. The real process: Forming the bottle. Blow molding. Filling. The label. Recycling. Dozens of steps, each one measured, each one with its own target.

It is tempting to walk a line like this and improve every step on its own. Make one faster. Make another cheaper. Tune each number in isolation.

That is how you end up with a process full of local wins that still lets the customer down.

So we started from the other end. The outcome. The right product, safe, sealed, the label correct, delivered when promised, looking right on the shelf and many other requirements.

The moment you fix that final outcome, everything upstream starts to line up. Each step stops being its own little kingdom. It becomes one link that either serves the outcome or does not. Now you can see the value. And you can finally see the waste.

That is the real point of a Gemba walk. You go and see the actual process, but you read it through the eyes of the customer standing at the end of it.

Start from the outcome the customer expects, then walk back. The steps that add value become obvious. So do the ones that only add cost.

Today, before you improve a single step, write down the exact outcome your customer expects. Then hold every step up against it.

A pleasure to run this Gemba Walk with the Dorna Team at Coca-Cola HBC , delivered by The Lean Six Sigma Company Romania.

Do you improve your steps one by one or do you align them all to the one outcome that matters and what your customer actually expects?

A shark is one of the oldest and most efficient hunters on earth. And it is picky about what it chases.It does not go af...
06/10/2026

A shark is one of the oldest and most efficient hunters on earth. And it is picky about what it chases.
It does not go after every fish. The fast, darting ones that twist and turn cost too much energy to catch. By the time the shark wins, the meal is worth less than the chase.
So it waits. It picks the prey that returns the most energy for the least effort. Biologists call it optimal foraging. The shark survives not by hunting harder, but by hunting smarter.
We rarely work that way.
In improvement, we start everything. Every idea becomes a project. Every complaint becomes an initiative. We chase the fast, flashy fish because they look exciting, and we burn the team’s energy landing something that barely feeds the business.
The shark would never do that.
Before you launch the next project, weigh it like a shark. How much benefit does it really return. How much effort will it cost to land it. If the chase costs more than the catch, let it swim.
Put your energy into the few initiatives that feed the business the most. That is prioritization. That is where real results come from.
Look at your list of improvement projects and cross out the agile fish, the ones that will cost more energy than they ever return.

The fastest car does not always win the race.In Formula 1, the win is decided long before lights out. Not on the track. ...
04/10/2026

The fastest car does not always win the race.

In Formula 1, the win is decided long before lights out. Not on the track. In the data.

Teams do not chase one hot lap. They study the long runs. How the tyre ages lap after lap. How much time it loses as it fades. How consistent each driver is, and how wide the spread.

The fastest single lap is a headline. The race is won by the car that loses the least time over a full stint.

Then the hard part. The variables.

Weather. A safety car that rewrites the pit window. What the rivals will do. Traffic. Track temperature.

Nobody controls these. So the team models them before the race, and when one happens on Sunday, the decision is already made. Calm, not panic.

That is data based decision making. The result is a function of many inputs. Manage the inputs and you manage the result.

The part I love. Done well, a team can win without the fastest car.

This is the work we do with organisations. We help teams read their own data, understand their variation, and prepare for what they cannot control. Then win with what they have, not with the biggest budget. Today, look at your long run data, not just your fastest lap. And name the three events that could blow up your plan, with your answer to each.

Would you rather have the fastest car, or the best strategy?

Chart: Formula Data Analysis ()

This is blood sugar monitored for a period of time. The goal is to keep the curve smooth and inside the range.Here is th...
30/09/2026

This is blood sugar monitored for a period of time. The goal is to keep the curve smooth and inside the range.

Here is the part that we miss. You cannot control the line directly. You control the inputs. What you eat, when you move, how you sleep. The curve just follows.

That is Y equals f of X. The output is a function of the inputs. Manage the inputs and the output takes care of itself.

Every process is the same. We stare at the result and react to it, when the result was already decided upstream by inputs we never controlled, or never even measured.

One more thing. A perfectly flat line is not always a win. In a living process some movement is normal. If the curve goes dead flat, ask first if the sensor is still reading and if the number is even real, before you celebrate.

Control the inputs. Reduce the variation that matters. And when a line looks too perfect, check the gauge.

What are the critical inputs of your process and are they actually measured?

Most of what looks like a needle will be hay.Picture a test that is 99% accurate, looking for something that affects 1 i...
28/09/2026

Most of what looks like a needle will be hay.
Picture a test that is 99% accurate, looking for something that affects 1 in 1000 people.
You test positive. You would think it is almost certain. It is not.
Take 100,000 people. About 100 truly have it, and the test catches 99. But 1% of the other 99,900 also test positive. That is almost 1,000 false alarms.
So of everyone who tests positive, more than 9 out of 10 do not have it at all.
The test did nothing wrong. The event was just rare.
This is the trap in every hunt for a rare problem. A rare defect. A rare fraud. A rare failure. When the real thing almost never happens, most of your alerts will be false alarms, even with a good method.
And here is the real danger. Chase every false alarm and your team burns out and starts ignoring the alerts. Then the one real needle slips through.
The answer is not more inspection. It is prevention at the source, and pointing your search where the problem actually lives. Make a positive mean something.
Today, take one alert or report your team reacts to. Ask a simple question. When this flags, how often is it actually right?
Do you know how often your alerts cry wolf, or do you treat every one as real?
Concept from Sir David Spiegelhalter. Illustration by Jono Hey, Sketchplanations (sketchplanations.com).

0.196 seconds.That was the gap between first and second at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. George Russell held off Max Versta...
27/09/2026

0.196 seconds.

That was the gap between first and second at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. George Russell held off Max Verstappen to the line. The closest finish in Formula 1 since 2002, per Formula 1.

Not two seconds. Not one. Less than a fifth of a second, after almost two hours of racing.

In F1 the difference between winning and losing is never one big moment. It is thousands of tiny ones. The pit stop that is half a second quicker. The line through one corner. The tyre call at the right lap. The part that is one gram lighter.

None of them wins the race alone. Added together, they are 0.196 seconds.

That is what continuous improvement really is. Not one heroic transformation. Hundreds of small gains, designed, measured and improved again and again, until they add up to the win.

Most teams wait for the big improvement. The winners chase the milliseconds every day.

Your competitor is doing the same. The gap between you is rarely one big thing. It is all the small things, added up.

Image credit: Formula 1 (F1)

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