Back to D.W. Ellis & Associates Ltd.'s management science pageD.W. Ellis & Associates Ltd. offers consulting services in statistics, the use of data, training, and statistical thinking.
D.W. Ellis & Associates Ltd. offers a series of business courses to instill statistical thinking into an organization. Astute business people will always be needed but a keen business sense coupled with statistical thinking will take your business further.
The following seminars have been held several times and have been very well received. They are plain English and very business oriented with examples and discussions. References are available.
The statistical and measurement courses, in the recommended order, are:
The general objective of these statistics and measurement courses is to improve awareness and skills concerning the collecting, analysing, and interpreting data. Most organization have a push towards a better and more objective use of data and its analysis. It is necessary to properly understand your business issues and set priorities for your plans.
The material is delivered in plain English, with very little math. It is intended for people wishing to better understand the concepts of statistical thinking and how to use statistics to measure and improve their business performance. No prior knowledge of statistics is required.
An introductory session on the fundamental concepts involved in data collection, sampling bias, and the nature of variation. Its objectives are for participants to understand why statistics are necessary to improve the performance of a business, to understand the need for and acquire some understanding of how to collect, analyse, and present data, and to understand the concepts of variation and uncertainty.
This session is designed to help participants understand why measurement of performance is necessary, know what to measure, and learn how to measure. Performance, strategic, and control measures will be discussed. Significant time will be devoted to discussing what to measure in participant's business functions. Specific subjects include, your critical success factors, customer orientation, improvement versus evaluation, your culture for measurement, timing of measurement, and monitoring.
It is intended for those who wish to start or improve their performance measurement. Participants are encouraged to bring information on the functional responsibilities of their group and current thoughts concerning what they want to measure.
Included are; an introductory course in the elements of Statistical Process Control, the concepts of significant versus normal variation in a process, TQM concepts as they apply to SPC, sampling, run charts, the evils of over adjusting, control charts, the difference between specifications and control limits.
This workshop contains practical, real-life examples, and exercises to help participants gain familiarity with the methods. It is intended for people with some background in statistical concepts, wishing to learn more about the practical application of specific methods to help them improve processes, and understand the process of "process improvement". Anyone involved in defining and collecting data elated to performance measures or business processes will benefit from this course.
To obtain all the benefits possible from control charts, an organization requires a change in how operations spends their time. In particular, "out of control" conditions require investigation for cause. This course discusses why it is so important to understand the difference between special causes of variation ("out of control" conditions) and common causes or random variation inherent in all processes. It also discusses the issues that an organization must address to bring about this required change.
Control charts signal when you application is out of control, but the Investigation for Cause helps you determine what to change or improve. This course helps to show you how to go about finding the special causes of problems in your processes.
It is for all staff who are involved with a business or production process that requires continuous monitoring of numerical process variables or measurements. Included are process operators, technicians, foremen or leaders, contact or process engineers, lab staff, and management.
More details on these and other courses can be found in our Quality Management page and our Statistics Courses page.
Another business subject that has a strong statistical content is risk management. Please see our Risk Management page.
We offer a 1/2 day Risk Management course. It covers topics such as; understanding what risk management is, study a real case, undesirable events, probability of occurrence, measures of risk, interventions, and risk models. The session also helps individuals and teams understand what is required to develop a risk management plan.
It is for those wishing to gain a first level of understanding of operations risk management.
We have developed several risk management models to help organizations manage the cost and risk associated with operating a business.
We offer services in the development, administration and analysis of surveys.
David Ellis has several developed entertaining presentations on topics related to statistics. An example is "How to Lie, Cheat and Deceive Using Data". Presentation will also be developed for specific topics. Please see our Public Speaking page for more topics and details.
If you have questions or comments, please e-mail David Ellis.
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