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Step by step guide of how to deliver continuous change and improvement through the PDCA project management approach.

What you will learn

What Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) is

How to deploy Plan Do Check Act

How to run Pilot Testing for solutions

How to develop a plan to deliver solutions in your business

How to brainstorm potential problems AND potential solutions

How to project manage solutions right through to delivery

How to continually improve your processes, products and services

The different plans, documents and templates you can deploy and how to successfully deploy them

Description

Plan Do Check Act is a fantastic, high revered and successful continuous improvement / project management methodology that, if deployed correctly, can deliver incredible results. It is an approach that has been deployed regularly in manufacturing and production environments, and has been adopted in the service industry to great effect.

The aim of the PDCA approach is to enable you to identify an opportunity or problem, plan to address this, identify potential solutions to do so and then test these. Once tested, you have the confidence required to deliver your solutions in full, with the right controls in place to make sure they last the test of time. In this course, we will:

– Explore exactly what PDCA is, going into each section specifically.

– Break the approach down further by using a real life example of a PDCA approach, showing you exactly what was done, how, why and its impact.


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– Explore the need for change and continuous improvement within our businesses.

– Run through the various plans, tools and templates that are common when deploying PDCA (such as Implementation Plan, Control Plan etc.)

By the end of this course, you will have the knowledge and the confidence to deliver a full end to end Plan Do Check Act project. You will know how to spot opportunities and challenges in your business, plan to address them and deliver the right solutions at the right time. If you are looking to improve your operational performance, continuously, this course will enable you to do just that.

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Content

Introduction

What is covered in this course?
What is the purpose of this course?
Disclaimer

Fundamentals of PDCA

What is PDCA?
What is change?
What is continuous improvement?
Purpose & benefits of the approach

PDCA

Overview
Plan – Introduction
Plan – Activities to deploy
Plan – Examples
Do – Introduction
Do – Activities to deploy
Do – Examples
Check – Introduction
Check – Activities to deploy
Check – Examples
Act – Introduction
Act – Activities to deploy
Act – Examples
Section quiz

Demonstration

Scenario
Pre-PDCA work
Pre-PDCA work – Scenario
Plan – Identify the opportunity
Plan – Understand the the data
Plan – Generate causes
Plan – Choose your causes to explore
Plan – Generate ideas 1
Plan – Generate ideas 2
Plan – Pilot Implementation Plan
Do – Deliver the Pilot Implementation Plan
Do – Deliver the Pilot Implementation Plan 2
Do – Controls to deploy
Do – Close out the Do phase
Check – Analyze the pilot results 1
Check – Analyze the pilot results 2
Check – Draw conclusions & feed back
Check – Present the findings
Act – Implementation Plan explanation
Act – Implementation Plan
Act – Controls to deploy
Act – Training & additional resource requirements
Act – Close out & continuous improvement
Section quiz

Close out

Review of key learnings
Hints & tips
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