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Application of a Best Practice  

Application of a Best Practice
When coupled with other methodologies, the adoption of best practices can lead to distinct competitive or strategic advantage. At the micro or process level, best practices are applicable when used in conjunction with commonly used problem-solving or continuous improvement methodologies such as PDSA, PDCA, DMAIC, QIC Story, or the Kepner-Tregoe Problem Solving and Decision Model.

Standard continuous improvement models promote the use of data to confirm the causes of a problem. This sets the stage for the selection of solutions based on a set of facts. Solutions can be created from scratch or adopted from another organization. Therefore, the most effective application for a best practice is in a situation when it can be proven to address a root cause confirmed with data. For example, if a child is not learning, it may be for one of many reasons. To select the best strategy, we must first understand why the student is not learning

Best practices are also applicable at the macro level such as in the Baldrige, Deming, ISO, SACS, or Sterling organizational frameworks. Each model represents a rubric of 50-100 factors known to drive results in 6-10 major areas. Most organizations may excel in 10-20% of those factors; however, few excel in all. The basic premise behind all of these models is that to achieve and sustain excellence, then the more factors with excellent approaches in place is key. The adoption of best practices for these factors is one way to efficiently accelerate organizational improvement.
 
 

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