Twelve Keys to Sustainable Company Success

Key 5 CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. ACHIEVING SUPERIOR QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY

Everything that is being done now could be done better. Organizational stakeholders all agree that a major emphasis should be put on improving the organization but they will always have differences of opinion about what needs to be done, and what needs to be done first. The traditional strategic planning process will usually help sort this out for large ideas, but even after the priorities are decided there is still the question of how to carry out a specific improvement. Since most major improvements require a capital investment of some sort, the capital budget is often the focal point of internal discussion. Improvement projects are usually filed by responsible departments ...