Continuous improvement can be a very valuable discipline, but it can also be deadly trap. So it would be useful to know which it is, in any given situation. Here is how. First of all, imagine you are ...

In an era of digital disruption, IT organizations need to move faster. Given this, should CIOs be active enablers of continuous improvement? Several years ago, I reviewed ITIL Version 3.0. When I got ...

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“Respect for people” is one of the most critical lean principles, and also one of the most misunderstood. If not practiced, developing a lean culture of continuous improvement is impossible. Most ...

Small businesses often have difficulty competing with larger competitors that are able to mass produce products at low costs. Continuous quality improvement is a business management system that ...

This post is written by Alison Lee, Senior Research Scientist, and Meg Riordan, Director of External Research, at EL Education. Two years into EL Education’s continuous improvement project to target ...

In business, logistics refers to the network of systems that controls how resources flow through a business and from one firm to another over the course of a supply chain or production process. The ...

Is it possible to suggest that Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean, and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health? While it may be heresy to say this, recent ...