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How do you write a Quality Improvement Plan - Format?

  • 1.  How do you write a Quality Improvement Plan - Format?

    Posted 05-22-1999 22:15
    Mr. Mark James Smith wrote:

    > Hello
    >
    > Am trying to put together a Quality Improvement Plan for work.
    >
    > Not exactly sure where to start.
    >
    > Can anyone suggest how to layout a Quality Improvement Plan. Or
    > perhaps,
    > show me one that they may have written.
    >
    > If so would love for you to email me stuff. Thank you.
    >
    > myemail@ozemail.com.au
    >
    > Thanks
    >
    > Mark

    1) One of the differences between Quality Improvement (QI) and ISO
    9000 certification, is that the former has not yet been reduced to a
    straightforward algorithm, as well as ISO. There is a different mode of
    thinking. Which is one reason I am looking forward to ISO9000:2000 -
    can they really get it well?

    2) A Baldrige assessment sequence can give you measures for how well
    you have set it up and it has succeeded. But the steps of how to do
    it? For this source, that's up to you.

    3) The specific steps, or sequence, starts from a number of different
    places. Choice depends a great deal on what is not presently in good
    shape.

    3a) Everything is a system. Everything - production machines, office
    operations, markets, getting along.

    3b) All systems have inputs & outputs. Within specific sections,
    these are connected by linkages. Just to keep things scrambled,
    sometimes a linkage between input_a and output_z is adjusted by
    input_b. Or output_y. Life is rough.

    3c) If you can identify the outputs you care about, experts in the
    subject can pinpoint possible inputs. Statistically experienced people
    can specify tests to measure those linkages.

    3d) The A2Q Method (tm), (see my web site, address below) can guide
    an analyst through the steps. There are other problem solving
    procedures that work also. Any Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) sequence that
    talks to you can work. The A2Q 12-Step Plan (tm) was developed
    primarily for product manufacturing & development, written out for
    engineers and Techs. It works on the other cases suggested in (3a) as
    well. Has worked.

    4) But you have to identify, at some level, the issue, the pain
    point, of concern to you. Identification and selection of issues is
    another analytical discussion, of course. Start _knowing_ that a
    solution to a specific technical problem can be found (A2Q works
    again!), then look for ones that can pay off well, with a mix of short
    and long term time frames.

    5) Have fun. Even how mgt leads/promotes solutions is part of a
    system. See item (3).

    Good luck,
    Jay
    --
    Jay Warner
    Principal Scientist
    Warner Consulting, Inc.
    4444 North Green Bay Road
    Racine, WI 53404-1216
    USA

    Ph: (414) 634-9100
    FAX: (414) 681-1133
    email: quality@a2q.com
    web: http://www.a2q.com

    The A2Q Method (tm). What do you want to improve today?