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Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement
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Utilizing the 3Ms of Process Improvement

by Richard Morrow
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
7h 23m
English
Productivity Press
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Chapter 5

Roadmap for Process Improvement

Introduction

The 3Ms (measure, manage to the measure, make it easier) are for everyone. Process improvement should be taught to everyone. Keeping it all straight, such as the steps in PDSA (plan, do, study, act), can be difficult, though. People who are part-time process improvement practitioners find it more difficult to remember the steps in process improvement because they don’t get the repetition that a person who works full time in performance improvement gets. The third M is to make change easier. The best way I have found to make process improvement easier is to develop a step-by-step plan. The Roadmap to Performance Excellence is a step-by-step plan. It is called a roadmap because it is much ...

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