The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
Now, we learn that a system must have an aim. Without an aim, there is no system.
Change the rule and you will get a new number.
The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
The customer invents nothing. New products and new services come from the producer.