Given all of the problems that exist in our American healthcare system, it’s encouraging that most healthcare organizations are endorsing or practicing some form of process improvement or operational excellence strategy.

Today I want to concentrate on the foundation of what is most commonly taught as design of experiments (DOE)—factorial designs.

Poking fun at corporate jargon is a current trend.

It’s a tragic irony that the day before the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil well disaster, executives from BP and the rig’s operators, Transocean, visited the platform on a “management tour” that included a number of specific safety-related purposes.

Story update 10/9/2023: This article is a corrected version. The earlier version suffered from a programming error that affected all of the PID results.