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 ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the pressure to innovate is relentless. Organizations are constantly pushed to develop state-of-the-art products, services, and business models that ...

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, ...

As a follow-up to my last column, 'Must Have' Metrics for Continuous Improvement, the next must-have metrics are first pass yield (FPY) and rolled throughput yield (RTY). While most companies I visit ...

A physicist, Eli Goldratt, famously transformed the way business leaders thought about the economics of production in the 1980s by pointing out the financial contribution of manufacturing to a ...

Delivering incremental process improvement in the cloud requires sufficient visibility of networks and applications for monitoring and management, particularly when workloads are less than static or ...

Business guru Eliyahu M. Goldratt, in his 1984 book The Goal, presents a paradigm shift in management philosophy with the Theory of Constraints. This theory views any manageable system as constrained ...

Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) is a strategic approach for developing a culture of continuous improvement in the areas of reliability, process cycle times, costs in terms of less total resource ...

Continuous school improvement is a cyclical process intended to help groups of people in a system—from a class to a school district or even a network of many districts—set goals, identify ways to ...

The ongoing improvements made to business processes. Continuous process improvement (CPI) encompasses every operation in an enterprise with the goal of greater efficiency, lower fixed costs and better ...