As a physician, I enjoy listening to nonphysicians tell me how to motivate doctors. I don’t mean this in a totally snarky way (well, maybe just a little). These conversations often highlight the chasm that exists between physicians and administration.

I am of course talking about feedback; you needn’t admit that you were thinking a different word.

My last article demonstrated a common incorrect technique—based in “traditional” statistics—for comparing performances based on percentage rates. This a

(ITAMCO: Plymouth, IN) -- Indiana Technology and Manufacturing Companies (ITAMCO), provider of open gearing and precision machining services, has donated a Zeiss coordinate measuring machine (CMM) to the Precision Tool Manufacturing Training Program for high-school students.

Up until a few years ago, I wasn’t a big fan of run charts. Why not just go ahead and construct a process behavior chart and move on? Well, sometimes a run chart is more appropriate for certain data structures.