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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 conclu...

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 app...

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...

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 ...

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

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

"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 ...

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

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 spin...

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 tr...

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

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

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

Stagnant water can be dangerous for drinking because it provides a better incubator than running water for many kinds of bacteria and par...

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

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,...

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

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 Q...

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