Anything that you do well is worth doing better over time. The term "continuous improvement" describes a process practiced by quality engineers but it speaks to something that every conscientious ...

Continuous improvement (CI) unceasingly strives to improve the performance of production and service firms. The learning curve (LC) provides a means to observe and track that improvement. At present, ...

To truly modernize accreditation, technology implementation could adapt advanced risk assessment practices used in other sectors to the higher education context. For example, in the financial services ...

Spotting and addressing inefficiencies ensures conflicts happen less frequently and creates internal alignment, further preparing an organization for change. Unfortunately, many of the process ...

Continuous process improvement can benefit all aspects of life — from personal New Year’s resolutions to complex drug development. In a world where two-thirds of planned improvement ...

Such steps would need to be eliminated from the process if possible by redesigning the entire process at the outset. The journey toward fully continuous manufacturing typically starts with a single ...

Whether we’re practicing Lean or Six Sigma, what we’re really targeting is process improvement. The process could be technical, commercial, or a support-process to the standard order-to-delivery ...

Certainly, GM, Ford, Delphi, Collins & Aikman, Visteon, Dana and many of the other auto-industry companies with financial problems also have individual examples of outstanding process improvement, ...