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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (Feb. 5, 2015) -- Everyone has ideas about what is wrong, what could be done differently and how they might fix problems in their work areas. They just might not know how to go about ...

Federal government leaders know that their organizations should always be improving. But today’s multitude of complex and evolving challenges — tighter budgets, shrinking workforces, aging ...

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 initiatives fail, ...

Companies that can successfully implement continuous development throughout their organization find dramatic strategic benefits. Agile made its public debut in 2001 with the publication of the ...

Process and Control Improvement (PC&I) project planning is quite critical to the health of your business. Establishing a process improvement initiative helps maintain both quality and efficient ...

HONOLULU -- For Regional Health Command-Pacific's Office of Strategy and Innovation, fiscal year 2016 was a tremendous year. The team reinvigorated continuous process improvement capabilities and Lean ...

While working on a continuous improvement (CI) team, how many times have you been frustrated by the "analysis paralysis" of the team leader/facilitator who is trying to make sure that everything is ...

What Can You Expect at the 2016 Continuous Improvement Conference? The 2016 Continuous Improvement Conference (April 10-13) is the only industry event focused on helping companies achieve operational ...

Implementing an effective and sustainable continuous improvement (CI) program is hard work. It typically requires dedicated effort from multiple operations and CI leaders who, let’s face it, start out ...

Implementing a program of continuous quality improvement can increase customer satisfaction, reduce production waste and improve company performance. To introduce such a program, you have to make sure ...

Continuous Improvement (CI) is a term we hear a lot lately. Sadly, despite knowing the term and possibly even applying CI principles to some aspects of operations, CI principles are infrequently ...