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Strategy, PM, and the W. Edwards Deming PDCA Cycle

The Strategic Project Manager

The Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) Cycle, developed by W. Edwards Deming, provides a simple and effective means to create a virtuous cycle in an organization. What Is the PDCA Cycle? The idea of the PDCA method is to continuously improve products, services, and processes. Step 1 – Plan.

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What’s Needed in an Organizational Change Management Model?

The Strategic Project Manager

The Change Life Cycle Framework is covered for the first time among of these frameworks in this blog. This post looks at how you can leverage what you need from 10 different organizational change management models to effect change. It imports pieces from the other models and provides a framework for building a strategic agility competency.

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Change, Continuous Change, and Change Exhaustion

The Strategic Project Manager

How do you cope with change? The post is my rant about change – what it really is, and how we can cope with it. It transitions to change complexity, and what tools and approaches strategic project managers can use to manage it. It’s been said – time and again – that, “The only constant is change.”