The term PDCA abbreviating to Plan-Do-Check-Act is quite well known, and the presence of a similar acronym PDSA has raised a number of questions. PDSA stands for Plan-Do-Study-Act. PDCA and PDSA are one and the same. Dr.Deming who coined the PDCA cycle was under an impression that the C word conveyed a wrong meaning. He [...]
A CareerBuilder survey was conducted on 2600 employees across US. In the survey, HR managers were asked to recount some mistakes that could be deemed unusual. Here’s the list that can literally sweep you off your feet. 1) Candidate said the more you paid him, the harder he worked. 2) Candidate was fired from different [...]
Deming cycle is popularly known as the PDCA cycle, and the acronym stands for Plan-Do-Check-Act. It is an iterative cycle which guarantees improvements for the activity it has been applied to. Dr. William Edwards Deming is the man behind the concept, who is considered to be the father of modern quality control. The PDCA Cycle [...]
Perhaps what China did around ten years back was the right thing to do. They started monitoring each and every byte that came in and left their country. And, the world outcast them and their policies. Google especially had a lot to pay – and many companies had to pack bags. Countries like India, which [...]
Sometime last week, a psychometric testing company called AptiQuant released a study based on 100,000 web users. It concluded that IE users had relatively lower IQ when compared to users of other browsers. And, the study also rated Opera users as the smartest of the lot. The entire spectrum of media, including BBC, Guardian, CNN [...]
It is a common practice these days to rate people in a bell curve. The explanation is quite straightforward – employees’ performance is compared with peers and a relative rating is dished out. Is it fair? Let’s say a manager has five people in a team and none are able to perform their jobs well, [...]
Oh there is a problem alright. And it starts with the fact that you have a boss, peer or project team member who is completely in denial about the chaos that is all around them. If they do see any kind of issues, well those issues start with you. This is not meant to be [...]
The Project Management Institute’s (PMI)® Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential is a globally recognized certification of project management knowledge, skills and experience. So it’s not surprising that PMI takes great care to insure the quality of its certification process, from application through post certification. When you apply to sit for PMI’s PMP Certification, you [...]
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