"A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes."
Encouraging innovation, experimentation and continuous improvement to remain competitive and achieve organizational goals.
Introduction to Innovation and Continuous Improvement: An overview of what innovation and continuous improvement mean and their importance in operations management.
Innovation Strategy: A study of different types of innovation and the strategies that organizations adopt to encourage and promote innovation.
Innovation Culture: A focus on creating a culture of innovation within an organization and developing an innovative mindset.
Lean Management: An approach to continuous improvement that focuses on reducing waste in various operational processes.
Six Sigma: A data-driven approach to continuous improvement focused on reducing defects and variability in processes.
Total Quality Management (TQM): A holistic approach to continuous improvement focused on involving all employees in the process of quality improvement.
Value Stream Mapping: A tool used to identify and eliminate waste in the production process.
Agile Manufacturing: A flexible manufacturing approach that can adapt to changing customer needs and market demands.
Design Thinking: A problem-solving approach that involves empathy, ideation, and experimentation to create innovative solutions.
Business Model Innovation: A process of creating new business models to gain a competitive advantage.
Continuous Improvement Tools: Various tools and techniques used to facilitate continuous improvement such as Pareto charts, fishbone diagrams, and process mapping.
Innovation Metrics: Key performance indicators that measure the effectiveness of innovation and continuous improvement efforts.
Intellectual Property: An examination of the different types of intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
Innovation Funding: An exploration of the types of funding available for innovation projects, including venture capital, grants, and crowdfunding.
Risk Management: An analysis of the risks involved in innovation and continuous improvement and the strategies to mitigate them.
Product innovation: This involves the creation of new products and services or improving existing ones.
Process innovation: This includes the development of new and more efficient ways of producing products or delivering services.
Incremental innovation: This refers to small changes or improvements made to existing products, processes, or systems.
Radical innovation: This involves the development of entirely new products, processes, or systems that disrupt the current market.
Disruptive innovation: This is a radical innovation that creates a new market and disrupts an existing market.
Service innovation: This is the creation of new and improved services to meet customer needs.
Business model innovation: This involves changing the way a business operates, such as adopting a new way of generating revenue or using a different distribution channel.
Technological innovation: This refers to the development of new technologies or the application of existing technologies in innovative ways.
Marketing innovation: This involves new ways of promoting and marketing products or services.
Social innovation: This involves solutions to social problems that create social value.
"These efforts can seek 'incremental' improvement over time or 'breakthrough' improvement all at once."
"Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility."
"Some see continual improvement processes as a meta-process for most management systems (such as business process management, quality management, project management, and program management)."
"W. Edwards Deming, a pioneer of the field, saw it as part of the 'system' whereby feedback from the process and customer were evaluated against organizational goals."
"The fact that it can be called a management process does not mean that it needs to be executed by 'management'; but rather merely that it makes decisions about the implementation of the delivery process and the design of the delivery process itself."
"A broader definition is that of the Institute of Quality Assurance who defined 'continuous improvement as a gradual never-ending change which is: '... focused on increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of an organisation to fulfil its policy and objectives. It is not limited to quality initiatives.'"
"Improvement in business strategy, business results, customer, employee, and supplier relationships can be subject to continual improvement."
"Put simply, it means 'getting better all the time'."
"Feedback: The core principle of continual process improvement is the (self) reflection of processes."
"Efficiency: The purpose of continual improvement process is the identification, reduction, and elimination of suboptimal processes."
"Evolution: The emphasis of continual improvement process is on incremental, continual steps rather than giant leaps."
"It is focused on increasing the effectiveness and/or efficiency of an organisation to fulfil its policy and objectives."
"It is not limited to quality initiatives."
"Improvement in business strategy, business results, customer, employee, and supplier relationships can be subject to continual improvement."
"The purpose of continual improvement process is the identification, reduction, and elimination of suboptimal processes."
"It means 'getting better all the time'."
"The key features of continual improvement processes in general are:"
"These efforts can seek 'incremental' improvement over time or 'breakthrough' improvement all at once."
"Delivery (customer valued) processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness, and flexibility."