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Q Review Figure 4.1 (problem-solving steps) on page 67, PDSA, and DMAIC. How do they differ, and how are they similar? What is familiar, what is not? Is it a good - or bad - idea to have specific steps? Why? How does your organization solve problems, and is this method effective? Please explain. In what situations might one work better than the other? If you have an example you can share from your organization about how problems are solved, please do. It is not unusual for organizations to have no established method of problem-solving, this was sometimes referred to in undergraduate textbooks as "the garbage can method". One advantage to having consistent approaches to problem-solving is that it makes it easier to train people, new members of the organization can learn it quickly and contribute sooner. Optional: Cancian, M. (2017). PDCA vs DMAIC: Which one should you use? Think Lean Six Sigma. Retrieved from https://www.thinkleansixsigma.com/article/pdca-dmaic (Links to an external site.) Add any comments you wish about Baldrige 3 & Baldrige 5 as they relate to your current or previous organization. Although we use problem-solving throughout Baldrige, some of the first contacts we have with the issues that need to be resolved are with customers (Baldrige 3) and with employees (Baldrige 5) because these are the people that will solve the problems for the customers.

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At present time, there is various wonderful and effective tools have been created to make positive changes in a business process. Managers of organizations utilize these techniques, to modify the process of their projects and tasks. PDSA and DMAIC are the two most valuable approaches, adopted by originations to continuously improve their process (Kukhnavets, 2020). Both of them are quite similar make confusion among the managers to choose the most appropriate. The main purpose of both of these two approaches is to find out the actual cause of any problems and suggest an effective solution. The best potential solution is provided by these tools to continuously improve their business process.