At last month’s Minitab Insights conference, experts from a wide range of industries offered some great lessons about how they use data analysis to improve business practices and solve a variety of problems. I shared five tips from quality leaders in yesterday’s column; here are five more.

Improve your skills while improving yourself

Everyone has personal goals they’d like to achieve, such as getting fit, changing a habit, or writing a book. Rod Toro, deployment leader at the financial brokerage firm Edward Jones, explained how challenging himself and his team to apply lean and Six Sigma tools to their personal goals has helped them better understand the underlying principles of quality improvement and personalized learning. They gained deeper insights and expanded their ability to apply quality methods in a variety of circumstances and situations.

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