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Home » Keywords: » plan-do-check-act (PDCA)

Items Tagged with 'plan-do-check-act (PDCA)'

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Management

A New Era of Holistic Quality

The future of the quality professional is bright, but it demands a radical change in skill set.
Robert Ferrone
November 25, 2025

The future impact of ISO and the GHG Protocol (September 12th) on quality is characterized by a significant expansion of the definition of quality itself. 


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Guest Column

Quality Management Systems: The Hidden Engine Behind Sustainability and Digital Transformation

The most progressive organizations do not treat quality, sustainability, and digitalization as separate initiatives but as interdependent strategies.
Dr. Ömer Özkan
Dr. Ömer Özkan
November 22, 2025

Traditionally, quality management focused on ensuring consistency, minimizing errors, and satisfying customer requirements. 


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Management

Mastering Kaizen: Small Steps to Organizational Success

Kaizen is fundamentally about having the discipline to change yourself for the better, making sacrifices for the good of the whole team.
Steve M. Beauchamp
November 9, 2025

How often have you attempted to implement continuous improvement in your organization, only to find that the improvements don’t last? How frequently have you struggled to get buy-in from team members?


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Manufacturing Excellence

Making Made in USA Great Again!

In order to make Made in USA the best in the world again, we need to do something beyond Plan, Do, Check, Act (PDCA).
Praveen Gupta
Praveen Gupta
June 10, 2024

Outsourcing began due to a lack of skills and the desire to handle tasks internally. To bring manufacturing back, we need to ensure top quality and manufacturing in America. Find out what we need to focus on.



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Management

Obeya: Introducing The Lean War Room

Creating an Obeya room is akin to creating a command center that draws together leaders from across departments.
Tim McMahon
May 20, 2024

Successful projects need hard work and teamwork to meet goals on time and on budget. Many fail because the team doesn't work together.


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Risk and ISO 9001

Risk and ISO 9001: 2015

Risk-based thinking and the process approach.
Walt Murray
Walt Murray
February 1, 2016

In September, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) published ISO 9001:2015, the updated high-level system (HLS) quality management system standard that includes some fundamental changes in how organizations are expected to operate to remain in conformance.


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Keep It Simple

The Merits of Simplification
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Darryl Seland
February 2, 2015

Not surprisingly, the definition of simplification is pretty simple—to make less complex or complicated; to make easier; or to reduce to fundamental parts.


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Improving Your Business with Management System Standards

Management system standards bring technological, economic and societal benefits.
John DiMaria
August 4, 2014

A properly implemented management system can contribute to the financial strength and organizational resilience of a company.


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Speaking of Quality

The ISO Standard

Management system standards aren't going away.
April 18, 2013

ISO 9001, the international standard for quality management systems, has been growing in popularity since 2010.


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