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Plan and test changes with PDSA Cycles

Collaboratively plan and test your changes, easily capturing the learning as you go

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Plan out your changes

Set clear objectives, develop a comprehensive plan with clear accountability, and predict the barriers to success. Capture all of this in a well-thought-out strategy that can be systematically executed to bring about positive change.

Keep track of your activities

Create and assign tasks to colleagues. With Simana it’s easier than ever to plan and align activities and collaborate with your team. Stay on track with testing your change idea at every level, from the progress overview to each team member’s tasks.

Measure the impact

Track the impact of your PDSA cycles by collecting data as you test, and monitoring for significant variation. By plotting your PDSA cycles on run and control charts, Simana will allow you to see the tangible link between your changes and their impact.

Special cause variation in your data is automatically calculated for you and visualised on your charts, allowing you to know whether your changes are causing significant positive change and can be further implemented and scaled.

Adopt, adapt or abandon

Based on the results of your PDSA test, decide whether you want to adopt the change idea, tweak it slightly or abandon it completely. By selecting your desired option, Simana automatically creates a new PDSA cycle for you, so you can refine your change strategy rapidly and incrementally, or will close and archive your unsuccessful test.

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