What is a Quality Management Plan?
A Quality Management Plan outlines an organization's overall quality management strategy, including quality goals, processes, procedures, and roles and responsibilities. It is used to ensure that quality objectives are met and the organization is able to meet customer needs. The plan is designed to provide a framework that keeps all stakeholders informed and aligned with the organization’s overall quality objectives.
What's included in this Quality Management Plan template?
- 3 focus areas
- 6 objectives
- 6 projects
- 6 KPIs
Each focus area has its own objectives, projects, and KPIs to ensure that the strategy is comprehensive and effective.
Who is the Quality Management Plan template for?
This Quality Management Plan template is for quality teams in organizations of all sizes and industries. It provides a comprehensive framework for creating a plan to manage their quality initiatives. With this template, teams have the ability to define clear examples of their focus areas, think about objectives that could fall under that focus area, set measurable targets (KPIs) to tackle the objective, and implement related projects to achieve the KPIs..
1. Define clear examples of your focus areas
Focus areas are the broad topics that you want to improve or maintain. Examples of focus areas could include improving quality management, quality assurance, or quality performance. It’s important to define your focus areas so that you can determine the objectives, actions, and KPIs to achieve your quality goals.
2. Think about the objectives that could fall under that focus area
Objectives are the specific goals that you want to achieve under each focus area. For example, under the focus area of improving quality management, objectives could include enhancing internal quality audit process, increasing quality compliance, and so on.
3. Set measurable targets (KPIs) to tackle the objective
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are measurable targets that help you track progress towards achieving your objectives. For example, under the objective of enhancing internal quality audit process, the KPI could be to decrease audit time from 4 days to 2 days.
4. Implement related projects to achieve the KPIs
Projects (actions) are the activities that need to be completed in order to achieve the KPIs. For example, to decrease audit time from 4 days to 2 days, the project could be to implement a quality audit system.
5. Utilize Cascade Strategy Execution Platform to see faster results from your strategy
Cascade Strategy Execution Platform is a powerful tool that helps organizations create and manage their quality management plan. It provides an easy-to-use interface to define objectives and measure progress. With Cascade, teams can quickly build, and execute their quality plans to achieve their goals faster and with greater success.