Handbook For Basic Process Improvement Page 34

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Handbook for Basic Process Improvement
Step 10: Modify the data collection plan, if necessary
Step 10 concludes the Plan phase of the PDCA
cycle.
Step 9
Reviewing the data collection plan
The data collection plan was originally developed in
Step 5. Since the process is going to change when
Is the Data
Collection Plan
the planned improvement is instituted, the team must
Yes
developed in Step 5
now review the original plan to ensure that it is still
valid for measuring
capable of providing the data the team needs to
the changed
process?
assess process performance.
Step 11
Modifying the data collection plan
No
If the determination is made that the data collection
Modify the plan to
provide the data needed
plan should be modified, the team considers the
to assess performance
same things and applies the same methodologies as
of the changed process
in Step 5.
The tools the team needs to modify the data collection plan are explained in the following
modules of the Basic Tools for Process Improvement :
Module 1:
Operational Definitions
Module 2:
Brainstorming
Module 4:
Affinity Diagram
Module 6:
Flowchart
Module 7:
Data Collection
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