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. 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.
Welcome to Episode 26 of The Outliers Inn – Plus Plus Dash Topic: Join us as we discuss nagative curves and how to make them positive, “The 60 Seconds of Joy“, and the Plus Plus Dash with Joy Baldridge. Listen now!
Operational Excellence Key Challenges Speed and the ability to adapt to changing market conditions are a significant challenge for business. The threat of new competition (the #1 driver), rising customer expectations, expanding markets, and digitalization are the key drivers of change. These are driving force behind the every increasing need for Operational Excellence, especially for…
Welcome to episode 24 of The Outliers Inn – Hegelian Dialectic A.K.A Mount Stupid Topic: We were pleased to have Dino Marsili speak to us at today’s Episode #24 of the Outliers Inn. Dino is a Certified Master Black Belt at Cisco Systems. In fact, he is the first ever Cisco Certified Master Black Belt. His predecessors…
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Harvard Business Review contends that organizations world-wide are lacking in one key department – a crucial obstacle to their success: Leadership Development. According to the findings of relative research done by the Corporate Executive Board, the problem isn’t a lack of internal talent perse, but rather there are other identifiable predictors – curiosity, insight, engagement, and determination. That said, whilst…
The article outlines the steps that companies have to take to achieve outstanding organizational structures and processes in a Chinese context. Part 1 provides an overview of how the changes in the business landscape in China that have taken place in recent years urgently require Western companies to pay more attention to organizational structures and…
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What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think — even calling out the boss is fair game….
