Proactive thinking and the desire to achieve a shared vision should drive the strategic planning process. Coupled with collaboration, coordination, and facts, an organization can create sufficient strategic leverage to achieve dramatic results. Organizations that achieve this capability can better accelerate the degree, and pace, of the achievement of their success.
The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) principle is an adaptation of the Deming Wheel, popularized by Dr. W. Edwards Deming, and based on the work of Walter A. Shewhart, a statistician and Quality Control engineer with Bell Laboratories from 1918 – 1956. The PDCA principle asserts that any action, regardless of scope, can be improved through the disciplined application of plan, do, check, and act. In some organizations, the C (check) is substituted with S (study) to emphasize the importance of understanding the effects of interventions designed and implemented to improve performance.
