{"id":1772,"date":"2014-09-24T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=1772"},"modified":"2014-09-24T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T11:18:15","slug":"the-symtom-the-desease-and-the-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/24\/the-symtom-the-desease-and-the-cure\/","title":{"rendered":"The symtom, the desease and the cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Identify <strong>the symptom<\/strong> is useful for understanding the problem and setting priorities to overcome it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The disease<\/strong> focuses the attention on the underlying causes of the problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cure<\/strong> focuses on the actions to remove the cause and also take into account negative collateral effects.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of understanding of these three concepts is making the execution of a six sigma project to be more complicated than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Why? people are limiting their actions to removing the symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identify the symptom is useful for understanding the problem and setting priorities to overcome it. 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