LIVE WEBINAR
Finding the Right Balance with Efficiency and Effectiveness
Date: Wednesday, March 26
Time: 1:00–2:00 p.m. ET
Duration: 60 minutes
Registration: FREE
High efficiency gets a lot of attention in the business world these days – fast, easy, and cost-effective are touted as ideal. But an essential complement to efficiency is effectiveness: was the solution significant and consequential? Did it actually solve the problem?
In this talk, we consider these two concepts, how they can work together, and how, at times, they may be at cross-purposes. Efficiency focuses on how something was done. Effectiveness is about what is achieved. We consider how to first think clearly and carefully about the goal of our efforts and then work on how to implement them as efficiently as possible within the constraints and uncertainty of our problem space. From data collection through analysis, there are opportunities to match our methods to what is important in the desired solution and then fine-tune our approach to enhance how quickly and cost-effectively we can achieve our goals. Several examples illustrate both failures and successes when striving to find the right balance between the “what” and “how” of our problem solving.
Be sure to attend if you are interested in:
- How the bridge between efficiency and effectiveness can be relevant to your data collection processes and finding meaningful solutions.
- Matching the goal of your efforts to the methodology of solving your problem.
- How to find the balance between the “what” and “how” of your problem solving by using real-world examples.
Meet the speaker
Christine M. Anderson-Cook
Christine M. Anderson-Cook is recently retired from working as a Research Scientist in the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She was a contributor to more than 80 projects while at LANL and has led projects in the areas of nuclear non-proliferation, sequential design of experiments for carbon capture, cybersecurity, complex system reliability and using data competitions to advance algorithms for detecting radioactive materials. Before joining LANL, she was a faculty member in the statistics department at Virginia Tech. She has over 240 peer-reviewed publications and her research areas include design of experiments, response surface methodology, graphical methods, reliability, multiple criterion optimization, data-centric decision-making and statistical engineering.
She is a Fellow of the American Statistics Association and the American Society for Quality. She has served on the Editorial boards of Technometrics, the Journal of Quality Technology, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, Quality Engineering and the Journal of Statistics Education. She is a long time Statistics Spotlight / Roundtable column contributor in ASQ’s Quality Progress. She is the 2021 recipient of the ENBIS George Box Medal and the ASA Quality and Productivity Section Gerald J. Hahn Achievement Award, the 2018 recipient of the ASQ Shewhart Medal and 2012 winner of the ASQ Statistics Division William G. Hunter Award.
Discussion
After the talk, Christine will join Anne Milley for an extended discussion and Q&A.