What is the GIVE model, why not just PDCA?

During my Lean career I have been a strong advocate of the PDCA cycle and there has definitely not been enough stressed on its importance in some of the roll outs I have witnessed. One of my mentors stressed to me in the early days that. “PDCA is a fractal of Lean” basically in everything we do at every level PDCA is applicable and should be followed. Whether it be a 5S standard (or any standard), a SOP, QCD process performance measurement, a lean implementation plan or a team meeting etc. then it should be followed to ensure we continuously improve. That one cycle I would argue is the single most important factor in enabling any business improving. In my experience companies believe they are OK at planning and the doing however the checking and acting appear to be neglected in a high percentage of occasions.

Despite all this I have not developed GIVE model to replace PDCA as I see PDCA as the glue that holds the GIVE model together:

Step 1 – Goal – Where do you want to get to? What do you want?
Without intentionally oversimplifying the PLAN in PDCA to understand truly where you want to get to you need a PLAN

Step 2 – Identify – Where you are now & the blockers stopping you from achieving your goal?
This is all about the Do & Checking part of PDCA but ensuring you capture and understand where the gaps are between the PLAN and the DO.

Step 3 – Visualise – & quantify the blockers stopping you.
Now you know what is stopping you, lets make it visible, only when you see a problem can you fix it, or remove the blocker

Step 4 – Eliminate– The main things stopping you from achieving your goal and continue to do all the things that are aligned to your goal
This is all about the removing the blockers and to do this follow PDCA

This is why we have created the GIVE model as it is fully supported by PDCA and has not been developed to replace it, this model is a fundamental part of the Lean Secrets “Your Way” methodology.

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