I came across this article on FB.

After visiting Silicon Valley and Shenzhen, it became clear that "PDCA is the cause of Japan's problems"

Are you suffering from "indecision disease"?
http://gendai.ismedia.jp/articles/-/55957

The disease referred to in this article as "indecision disease" is also known as "MBA disease" or "PDCA disease."

The root cause of both MBA disease and PDCA disease is the same, in that people only pursue the words without understanding the essence of what is taught in PDCA and MBAs, and I think a typical characteristic is a misunderstanding of the meaning of "plan."

PDCA (actually PDSA)¹The Plan in the book does not mean writing a business plan in Excel, but rather a small change proposal to be made to the current process, which is implemented on a small scale, the results are checked/studyed, and if the results are good, it is introduced (Act) to the whole process. It is a method similar to A/B testing in today's terms, but it seems to be something completely different. Even MBAs don't teach you to spend a lot of time making plans on paper, do they? Companies will go bankrupt if they do that. Especially startups.

Well, in that sense, this article also misunderstands the meaning of PDCA and is suffering from the same disease...²

 

1. Plan, Do, Study, Act
2. In similar respects,MI MovementHowever, there are also some who point out that the cycle has become an end in itself, leading to rampant fraud called "challenges" in some companies, as pointed out by @sakichan on my Facebook board. In addition, @jj1bdx pointed out, "I feel like the same thing is happening with agile (development) Scrum and the like in large Japanese companies. Planning is too big."