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- Act
- ‘Act’ forms the fourth final stage of the PDCA natural improvement cycle.
Using information obtained from the previous stages to improve processes or performance in the future. - Actions (dynamics) B2
- Actions that have been identified to implement plans, objectives, corrective and preventive changes. Allows assignment of responsibilities (including delegation of parts), prioritisation, and reporting.
- Check
- ‘Check’ forms the third stage of the PDCA natural improvement cycle.
Monitoring and (where appropriate) measuring processes and their outcomes against the planned policies, objectives and requirements. - Commerce (structure) A2
All structural elements that form the operational basis for the organisation to perform commercial processes such as trading and financial processes etc.
These can include, for example:• Financial and constitutional arrangements
• Contracts, certificates or other documents relating to delivery or supply of products and/or services.
- Container
- A myPROMIS Container is an element at the top of, or within, a container tree, and which contains or is capable of containing further containers or objects.
- Do
- ‘Do’ forms the second stage of the PDCA natural improvement cycle. Implementation of the plan.
- Documents (structure) A6
- Internally produced and externally supplied documents and datawhich relate to the operational management of the organisation – whether controlled and uncontrolled.
Can include any document produced by a software application. - Dynamics
- Dynamics requires a cine or movie camera to record it because it is time related. Dynamics includes elements (containers) A1 to A6.
- Element
- A myPROMIS element is a container and/or object.
Elements can have a dual role where they are an object with attributes such as ‘furniture’ but are also a container for subordinate containers or objects such as chairs or a chair.
The concept of an Element allows hierarchies of similar objects (families) to be assessed and controlled as a generic group while still permitting novel aspects of subordinate objects to be assessed individually. - Events (dynamics) B3
- Events are transformation that have occurred or are planned to occur and are related to real time. Events may occupy a time line that includes now and stretches into the past and into the future.
- Infrastructure (structure) A4
- Land, facilities, plant, machinery, equipment (including personal protective equipment), apparatus, vehicles, spare components, working animals.
- Integrated Management
- Integrated Management is the understanding and effective direction of every aspect of an organisation so that the needs and expectations of all stakeholders are equitably satisfied by the best use of all resources.
- Management System
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A management system is the collection of policy, rules and guidance that control and guide processes to achieve the organisation’s objectives.
The nature of a Management System is structural and acts on processes which are dynamic in nature. The Management System may be written down within formal controlled Documents (A6) or may be defined within other myPROMIS Elements e.g. software structure can define part of the Management System.
- Material (structure) A5
- Product, materials, substances, energy, forming part of or produced by the
business process. May be biological, radioactive etc.
Note these may be desired or undesired (e.g. waste is also ‘material’). - Module
- A module is a defined section of PROMIS. Modules can contain sub-modules.
- Object
- An Object is an element that is not capable of containing further elements within a container tree.
A typical object would be document or a piece of infrastructure whose components would be material (A5). - People (structure) A3
- All types of people (stakeholders) within an organisation and interacted with externally. People may occupy a post within an organisation and additionally be appointed to a role such as being the appointed first aider or to manage a specific project.
- Plan
- ‘Plan’ forms the first stage of the PDCA natural improvement cycle.
Planning establishes the objectives to be achieved and the processes and related structural elements required to achieve them. - Plan, Do, Check, Act PDCA
- The PDCA is a natural cycle used by conscious animals to assess what must be done to perform something successfully before doing it, together with checking success and finally reviewing and taking action to continually improve when it is done again.
- Processes (dynamics) B1
- Processes transform inputs into outputs and are hosted by structure and its elements.
Processes can have desired but also undesired outcomes such as harming people, harming the environment and displeasing customers and other stakeholders. - Rules and regulations (structure) A1
- Rules and regulations includes all relevant legislation and adopted or imposed standards that govern the operations and objectives of the organisation.
- Structure
- Structure is everything that can be recorded with a still camera because it is not time related. It does not essentially change with time.
Structure includes myPROMIS elements (containers) A1 to A6. - Tool
- A tool is a defined functionality within PROMIS that supports or delivers the achievement of a task or tasks.
A tool may be related to one or more Modules. - Tree
- A tree is a hierarchical array of myPROMIS elements.
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