{"id":4828,"date":"2016-07-31T09:52:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T08:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saasoft.com\/blog\/?p=4828"},"modified":"2016-07-31T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T08:52:29","slug":"bloodsucking-bugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hcse.blog\/?p=4828","title":{"rendered":"Bloodsucking Bugs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BloodSucker\"<\/a>This is a magnified picture of a blood sucking bug called a Red Poultry Mite.<\/p>\n

They go red after having gorged themselves on chicken blood.<\/p>\n

Their life-cycle is only 7 days so, when conditions are just right, they can quickly cause an infestation – and one that is remarkably difficult to eradicate! \u00a0But if it is not dealt with then chicken coop productivity will plummet.<\/p>\n

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We use the term “bug” for something else … a design error … in a computer program for example. \u00a0If the conditions are just right, then software bugs can spread too and can infest a computer system. \u00a0They feed on the hardware resources – slurping up processor time and memory space until the whole system slows to a crawl.<\/p>\n

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And one especially pernicious type of system design error is called an Error of Omission<\/em>. \u00a0These are the things we do not do<\/strong> that would prevent the bloodsucking bugs from breeding and spreading.<\/p>\n

Prevention is better than cure.<\/p>\n

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In the world of health care improvement there are some blood suckers out there, ones who home in on a susceptible host looking for a safe place to establish a colony. \u00a0They are masters of the art of mimicry. \u00a0They look like and sound like something they are not … they claim to be symbiotic whereas in reality they are parasitic.<\/p>\n

The clue to their true nature is that their impact does not match their intent … but by the time that gap is apparent they are entrenched and their spores have already spread.<\/p>\n

Unlike the Red Poultry Mites, we do not want to eradicate them … we need to educate them. They only behave like parasites because they are missing a few essential bits of software. \u00a0And once those upgrades are installed they can achieve their potential and become symbiotic.<\/p>\n

So, let me introduce them, they are called Len, Siggy and Tock and here is their story:<\/p>\n

Six Ways Not To Improve Flow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a magnified picture of a blood sucking bug called a Red Poultry Mite. They go red after having gorged themselves on chicken blood. Their life-cycle is only 7 days so, when conditions are just right, they can quickly cause an infestation – and one that is remarkably difficult to eradicate! \u00a0But if it … <\/p>\n

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