Using the Deming Cycle to improve your learning
How might you use the Deming Cycle to improve your learning and classroom performance?
- What the Deming cycle is, with its history
- How to apply the Deming cycle to improve your business processes
- The important distinction between PDSA and PDCA
- How PDSA is employed in the medical field
Deming’s approach is not just about improving processes, but about improving a whole business.
Question 17
What is lean thinking? Describe some of the popular tools used in lean applications
The core idea is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Simply, lean means creating more value for customers with fewer resources.
A lean organization understands customer value and focuses its key processes to continuously increase it. The ultimate goal is to provide perfect value to the customer through a perfect value creation process that has zero waste.
To accomplish this, lean thinking changes the focus of management from optimizing separate technologies, assets, and vertical departments to optimizing the flow of products and services through entire value streams that flow horizontally across technologies, assets, and departments to customers.