Mastering Step 8 of the PDCA Process: Standardizing Successful Processes
3 min readOct 15, 2024
In previous blogs, I shared with you steps 1–7 of the PDCA process. If you weren’t able to follow the blog series about the previous steps, I highly suggest you read them first before reading this blog, which focuses on step 8 of the process.
Links to other blogs about the other steps of the PDCA process:
- How to Identify Problems in Process Improvement
- How Problem Prioritization Works and Why It Matters
- How to Identify Countermeasures in Process Improvement
- Developing Countermeasures in Process Improvement
- Training Development for Sustainable Process Improvement
- How to Successfully Execute a Go-Live in Process Improvement
- Mastering Step 7 of the PDCA Process — Sustaining the Process and Monitoring Results: Part 1
Up until step 7, our efforts have been speculative. We’ve planned, prioritized, scoped, identified countermeasures, and developed strategies. But it’s not until processes are being used that we know if they worked and if our intentions match our implementation.
Process intention versus process implementation is a language we use a lot. You can have the best intention in the world, the…
