The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance, Second Edition

Organization to Support the Focus on Improvement

Before many individuals and teams begin participating in improvement, the management of the organization must prepare the organization for its participation. Listed below are three frequently asked questions that leaders pose as they begin the task of organizing to sustain the organization’s approach to improvement. The answers to these questions depend on the current management style and the complexity of the organization.

 

How do we organize to make continuous improvement part of our daily work?

 

From the collective experience of the authors, the preferred organization for improvement is the current management structure. The effort to integrate improvement into the normal organizational ...