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Casual Articles - Continuous Improvement - PDCA - The PLAN Phase
Starting up your own business can be an extremely daunting task. Getting it up and running is a huge gamble as if the business fails the lcost to you is often high in terms of lost investment of your time and money. Twenty per cent of businesses fail in their first year, and an additional thirty per cent will fold before they reach three years old. Make sure you know what the biggest pit falls are so you can avoid your own business becoming part of this statistic. Be realistic about the potential profit your business will make in its early stages. Optimism is a good quality, and often necessary if you are to have the determination needed to see you business idea through. But over optimism about the size of your market or pop
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Make Continuous Improvement One Of Your Goals - As Soon As You Possibly Can (ID: 74077)
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What Is An Improvement Cycle?
"Everything we do is a process, every process has a customer"
The Improvement Cycle is a highly disciplined and rigorous approach to problem solving using the Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA) methodology developed by Dr. W. Edwards Deming.
The Improvement Cycle consists of seven steps, 3 in the Plan phase, 1 in the Do phase, 1 in the Check phase, and 2 in the Act phase.
The PDCA cycle needs to be used in a continuous manner, select your theme or project, assess the current situation, plan and implement your solutions, check the effects of your changes, standardise on your new improved process, and plan for future improvements – the cycle continues.
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Ready to take a look at the 3 detailed steps in the PLAN phase?
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Although a certain amount of value and benefit may be derived from implementing part of the PDCA improvement process, a far greater benefit will be achieved by sticking to the process and following all 4 phases as best you can. this is especially important when involving internal and/or external team members.
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The critical part of the Plan phase is to get to the point where we can choose where to make improvements or what opportunity to run with and how success will be measured.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting different
results.“ Einstein
Whether deciding this on our own or as part of a team, there will be a time when we need to be able to communicate what the plan is and why it is in place. It may go in a report, recommendation for management approval, basis for raising funding, showing our customers that we have listened to them and we are acting on it.
Please don't be vague here. Time taken now will be more than well spent. The clearer we are about the plans purpose and the direction we wish to take, the greater the buy-in will be by all concerned. Moreover, it gives us the foundation for good, solid communication.
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The PDCA cycle needs to be used in a continuous manner, select your theme or project, assess the current situation, plan and implement your solutions, check the effects of your changes, standardise on your new improved process, and plan for future improvements – the cycle continues.
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Ready to take a look at the 3 detailed steps in the PLAN phase?
---SIDEBAR---
Although a certain amount of value and benefit may be derived from implementing part of the PDCA improvement process, a far greater benefit will be achieved by sticking to the process and following all 4 phases as best you can. this is especially important when involving internal and/or external team members.
---END SIDEBAR---
The critical part of the Plan phase is to get to the point where we can choose where to make improvements or what opportunity to run with and how success will be measured.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting different
results.“ Einstein
Whether deciding this on our own or as part of a team, there will be a time when we need to be able to communicate what the plan is and why it is in place. It may go in a report, recommendation for management approval, basis for raising funding, showing our customers that we have listened to them and we are acting on it.
Please don't be vague here. Time taken now will be more than well spent. The clearer we are about the plans purpose and the direction we wish to take, the greater the buy-in will be by all concerned. Moreover, it gives us the foundation for good, solid communication.
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Why are we here? What has given us the idea for a new project? What is telling us that we need to improve?
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A few weeks ago I visited my favorite restaurant. The sign on the door noted regular business hours of 11 am to 8 pm. It was 7:30. The restaurant was closed. If the sign says you're open for business then you should be open for business.Today I found out that this favorite restaurant of mine is closed for good.The restaurant that I speak of made gourmet sausages. It truly was amazing. Best sausages I've ever had.I was their best customer. I got to know the shopkeeper very well as I was in there quite often. The shopkeeper always told me that the restaurant wouldn't be able to survive much longer. He always had a different theory as to why business was bad. The main theory was that the location was bad but there wer
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The critical part of the Plan phase is to get to the point where we can choose where to make improvements or what opportunity to run with and how success will be measured.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting different
results.“ Einstein
Whether deciding this on our own or as part of a team, there will be a time when we need to be able to communicate what the plan is and why it is in place. It may go in a report, recommendation for management approval, basis for raising funding, showing our customers that we have listened to them and we are acting on it.
Please don't be vague here. Time taken now will be more than well spent. The clearer we are about the plans purpose and the direction we wish to take, the greater the buy-in will be by all concerned. Moreover, it gives us the foundation for good, solid communication.
O.K. How to get started...
Why are we here? What has given us the idea for a new project? What is telling us that we need to improve?
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and over again and expecting different
results.“ Einstein
Whether deciding this on our own or as part of a team, there will be a time when we need to be able to communicate what the plan is and why it is in place. It may go in a report, recommendation for management approval, basis for raising funding, showing our customers that we have listened to them and we are acting on it.
Please don't be vague here. Time taken now will be more than well spent. The clearer we are about the plans purpose and the direction we wish to take, the greater the buy-in will be by all concerned. Moreover, it gives us the foundation for good, solid communication.
O.K. How to get started...
Why are we here? What has given us the idea for a new project? What is telling us that we need to improve?
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Corporate Culture is one of the ingredients every corporation must have, says the book and sure enough our corporations are relentlessly working on it. But with all due respect, do the people in charge truly know the crucial importance of it? Do they know what this really means? Corporate Culture is a top priority in any corporation and should not be delegated!Many corporations are spending a lot of money to come up with a statement about their Corporate Culture, which then of course is valid for and must be lived up by each and every employee! This approach contains already failure and here is why:• Do you know whether your idea of your Corporate Culture is in alignment with your employees’ feelings and beliefs? •
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STEP 1 Identify Problem or Opportunity
Note 1
Remember 'SMART' goals and objectives - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timed (timescales to achieve).
Quoted often, the 'SMART' format definitely works although not always easy to use. Take as many tries as it needs to be as clear as possible. This is step one of seven - get this right, and the rest follows.
STEP 2 Investigation
Note 2
If using Cause and Effect in a 'positive' way, e.g. if the desired effect is the successful start of a new venture or the successful completion of a new project, the causes will be the indivual people, things, events etc. that result in the desired outcome.
Note 3
Great Tip! Before and After...
Once the desired outcome has been achieved either in full or in part, use the first Cause and Effect diagram as a base and then do a second one to show which 'causes' gave the achieved result.
In the spirit of PDCA and Continuous Improvement, this forms the starting point of the next cycle
STEP 3 Develop Plan
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