Plan, Do, Check, Act (Pdca)

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

What you'll 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

Requirements

None. We wil

No prior PDCA knowledge needed

No prior continuous improvement knowledge needed

Course

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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.- 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.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 What is covered in this course?

Lecture 2 What is the purpose of this course?

Lecture 3 Disclaimer

Section 2: Fundamentals of PDCA

Lecture 4 What is PDCA?

Lecture 5 What is change?

Lecture 6 What is continuous improvement?

Lecture 7 Purpose & benefits of the approach

Section 3: PDCA

Lecture 8 Overview

Lecture 9 Plan - Introduction

Lecture 10 Plan - Activities to deploy

Lecture 11 Plan - Examples

Lecture 12 Do - Introduction

Lecture 13 Do - Activities to deploy

Lecture 14 Do - Examples

Lecture 15 Check - Introduction

Lecture 16 Check - Activities to deploy

Lecture 17 Check - Examples

Lecture 18 Act - Introduction

Lecture 19 Act - Activities to deploy

Lecture 20 Act - Examples

Section 4: Demonstration

Lecture 21 Scenario

Lecture 22 Pre-PDCA work

Lecture 23 Pre-PDCA work - Scenario

Lecture 24 Plan - Identify the opportunity

Lecture 25 Plan - Understand the the data

Lecture 26 Plan - Generate causes

Lecture 27 Plan - Choose your causes to explore

Lecture 28 Plan - Generate ideas 1

Lecture 29 Plan - Generate ideas 2

Lecture 30 Plan - Pilot Implementation Plan

Lecture 31 Do - Deliver the Pilot Implementation Plan

Lecture 32 Do - Deliver the Pilot Implementation Plan 2

Lecture 33 Do - Controls to deploy

Lecture 34 Do - Close out the Do phase

Lecture 35 Check - Analyze the pilot results 1

Lecture 36 Check - Analyze the pilot results 2

Lecture 37 Check - Draw conclusions & feed back

Lecture 38 Check - Present the findings

Lecture 39 Act - Implementation Plan explanation

Lecture 40 Act - Implementation Plan

Lecture 41 Act - Controls to deploy

Lecture 42 Act - Training & additional resource requirements

Lecture 43 Act - Close out & continuous improvement

Section 5: Close out

Lecture 44 Review of key learnings

Lecture 45 Hints & tips

Lecture 46 Thank you

Anyone currently working for a company who wants to improve operational performance,Anyone who wants to upskill in this highly in demand PDCA methodology,Anyone who Manages a department / owns a business who wants to improve continuously,Anyone who wants to leave the course with full confidence in how to deploy this approach