Adopt-and-Standardize Guide.

Lock in a change that worked by making it the new normal and writing it into the relevant standard, then keep the surface-choose-test-adopt cycle turning.

After a small test succeeds, and continuously to keep the habit alive.

Make the fix the new standard

Roll the change out where it belongs, beyond the test

Write it into the standard for that process, so it holds when attention moves on

Close the problem in the log, and tell the people who surfaced it what came of it. Credit is what keeps the log full

Keep the cycle turning

How you will protect the small, regular time the habit needs. It is the first thing a busy organization drops, and dropping it is how the whole thing dies

The value is not any single fix. It is that the cycle never stops, so the organization keeps getting a little better on its own. A steady trickle of adopted fixes compounds into an operation that improves itself. The habit is working when a problem that used to recur has been fixed for good and stayed fixed.

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