Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement Name Institution Course and Code Professor Date Quality Improvement The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle, also known as the Deming cycle/Deming wheel, is one of the cornerstone tools in quality management and process improvement. The Deming wheel consists of the cycle plan-do-study-act, which supports continuous improvement (Knudsen et al., 2019). Indeed, it is a structured framework that allows organizations or individuals to organize the workflow around the problems, develop solutions, and promote innovation. Each phase of the cycle plays a crucial role: Planning clarifies goals and ensures that your change is targeted, which minimizes the risks of failure; doing involves executing the plan on a small scale to observe the outcomes firsthand; studying analyzes data and feedback to understand what worked, what didn’t, and why; acting uses the acquired insights to effect adjustments or scaling up of the successful changes...