{"id":812,"date":"2010-01-06T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T11:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/atwork\/?p=812"},"modified":"2010-01-06T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T11:03:00","slug":"you-cant-measure-everything-effectively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/atwork\/2010\/01\/you-cant-measure-everything-effectively\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t measure everything effectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely agree with this from the <strong>10 Things I Wish Lean Practitioners Wouldn&#8217;t Say in 2010<\/strong> (via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leanblog.org\/2010\/01\/10-lean-things-to-not-say-2010\/\">Lean Blog<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>7. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t measure it, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t manage it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe that statement. I think this phrase should be avoided and it certainly shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be attributed to Dr. W. Edwards Deming, as it often is mistakenly. Dr. Deming never said this and he, in fact, meant quite the opposite. Some of the most important factors in a system are very difficult, even impossible, to measure. That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t try to manage them. John Hunter, friend and fellow blogger, has the definitive take definitive blog take on this here&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong. Metrics are important but they aren&#8217;t always most important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Definitely agree with this from the 10 Things I Wish Lean Practitioners Wouldn&#8217;t Say in 2010 (via the Lean Blog): 7. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t measure it, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t manage it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe that statement. I think this phrase should be avoided and it certainly shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be attributed to Dr. W. Edwards Deming, as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,33,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agile","category-lean","category-philosophy","post-preview"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>You can&#039;t measure everything effectively - patkua@work<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thekua.com\/atwork\/2010\/01\/you-cant-measure-everything-effectively\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"You can&#039;t measure everything effectively - patkua@work\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Definitely agree with this from the 10 Things I Wish Lean Practitioners Wouldn&#8217;t Say in 2010 (via the Lean Blog): 7. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t measure it, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t manage it.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe that statement. 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