Comments on: PDSA – Hammers and Saws

By: The Ear and the Mind | Three Sigma Systems

The Ear and the Mind | Three Sigma Systems — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:18:04 +0000

[...] eyes, noses, feet and minds—all players in the service of our intention. Deming called this PDSA—a method that unifies the whole of ourselves in practice. We become like an orchestra, [...]

By: Letting Go | Three Sigma Systems

Letting Go | Three Sigma Systems — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:08:29 +0000

[...] So I think that the paradox of being human is that the faculty of knowing, which is so crucial to our survival, cannot become profound (e.g. SoPK) when knowing is divorced from the awareness that can only be realized by “letting go”. And “letting go” can can only be achieved in practice — in “doing” and in “acting” (pDsA). [...]

By: The Value in Values | Three Sigma Systems

The Value in Values | Three Sigma Systems — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:04:22 +0000

[...] The faculty of “mind” works for us and against us. This is no more that saying that bigness for dinosaurs was at one point, an advantage, and at some other point, a disadvantage. But we have a leg up on the dinosaurs. Once big, they could not make themselves un-big. We on the other hand, can think about our thinking, how it works, its pluses and minuses, and shape our minds and our actions with the aim to optimize the value realized by our adaptation. To begin with, we must come to terms with the idea that there is no true value “out there”. The guidepost for our actions resides in our capacity to survive though collaborative effort that continually allows us to create new knowledge by which to address the challenges presented to us by our ever-changing world. Upon further study, it will be seen that this symbolic process is one that is founded on shared aims (values) and intentions, driven by difference and diversity, and resolved in collaborative action that produces new difference in the world and ourselves — over and over again. This is PDSA. [...]

By: The Devil is in the Details | Three Sigma Systems

The Devil is in the Details | Three Sigma Systems — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:33:13 +0000

[...] Dr. Deming called this process PDSA. [...]

By: The Competitive Edge: Living on the Brink of Chaos | Three Sigma Systems

The Competitive Edge: Living on the Brink of Chaos | Three Sigma Systems — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:54:57 +0000

[...] in this illustration represents the ever-moving present in which we experience, do, and observe. Deming’s PDSA is illustrated in a dialectal form that represents our continuous efforts at interpreting the world [...]

By: Mind Walk and the Effibility of “Truth” | Three Sigma Systems

Mind Walk and the Effibility of “Truth” | Three Sigma Systems — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:21:15 +0000

[...] PDSA (Plan Do Study Act) is a means by which we set forth and acknowledge the theory we begin with (PLAN). We act in accordance with that theory (DO). We make observations and measurements to see if that theory has predictive value in terms of our aims—if it works (STUDY). Then we modify our theory in order to make it more effective in terms of our aims (ACT). There is no reference to external truth. There is only the operationally defined key quality characteristics that we have deemed important and useful for our purposes. The system of PDSA is internally self-consistent. It is guided by our AIMS, which Deming emphasized, cannot be determined on the basis of numbers or any observations other than our values. He stated these as create jobs, pride in workmanship, and better world. (I agree with his aims.) [...]