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What a journey! This is the end of the improvement process! STEP EIGHT falls into the ACT or "adjust" phase. This is when we draw conclusions from our data....

When we are walking, we need our eyes to see where we are going. Walking with our eyes closed will lead to an imminent fall. The same applies to this process...

It's time for action! Now that you have developed your countermeasures and narrowed them down (STEP FIVE), it is time to see them through one by one in a tim...

This is the last sub-step of the PLAN phase of the PDCA cycle. We have pinpointed the problem, broken down the problem, set targets, and proposed root causes...

We are already half-way learning the process. We pinpointed the problem, we have broken it in parts, we have set target assignments and set deadlines for the...

We are going from understanding the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle to learning the quality improvement process that has taken Toyota and many others to success for ...

"How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time,” a popular saying has it. The old proverb means that large tasks can be accomplished if done one little bit ...

If you understood the PDCA cycle, you understood the core of continuous improvement. Edward Deming's philosophy revolutionized the Japanese industry with the...

It was exciting to learn that the PDCA cycle applies to real life. Johnny's inspiring story (Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3) shows us that spinning the PDCA wheel ...

Johnny's main objective was to pay $25,000 debt. At this point, he is far from accomplishing that, but he has managed to learn that by tracking his expenses ...

Johnny's story has nothing to do with the implementation of Quality Improvement for any product or service in any industry, however, it is something that's s...

We just started to learn about the infamous PDCA cycle and soon will see specific applications related to our industry, but before we do that, first things f...

Complacency and Stagnancy prevent us from growth and development, but the attitude of improvement does the opposite. The attitude of improvement help us get ...

Stagnant water can be dangerous for drinking because it provides a better incubator than running water for many kinds of bacteria and parasites. That's right...

"Stagnancy" is defined as the state of not flowing or moving. For example, a country's economy becomes stagnant when there is lack of activity, growth or dev...

We have learned that the U.S. didn't value the Quality Improvement philosophy until too late. While Japan worked hard to make it happen, the U.S. kept resti...

During World War II, the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made Nagasaki the second and, to date, last city in the world to experience a nuc...

Sometime in 1989 my boss, one of the owners of M/G Electric Company, a large motor repair shop in MIami, said: "Manny, we will deploy a Quality Improvement P...

Life is defined by the dictionary as a characteristic that distinguishes physical entities that have biological self-sustaining processes, from those that do...