States’ plans for the Every Student Succeeds Act will help guide their K-12 policy for the forseeable future. And a number of states embraced the concept of “continuous improvement” as part of the ...

Your goal is to acquire and sustain customers by delivering products and services at cost and on time without sacrificing quality. How do you do it? By developing efficient processes with a supportive ...

It’s common to talk about quality and continuous improvement in the context of manufacturing. Methodologies such as ISO, lean and Lean Six Sigma are a means to improve business efficiency and ...

An engineering mindset provides a blueprint for continuous success. Try it and create your own virtuous cycle of improvement.

Continuous improvement has long been an important aspect for manufacturers who are in a constant battle to provide their customers with high quality products at a competitive cost that can be ...

Companies that can successfully implement continuous development throughout their organization find dramatic strategic benefits. Agile made its public debut in 2001 with the publication of the ...

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 ...

Managerial accounting provides companies with quantitative and qualitative information on operational and financial performance. While financial accounting focuses on the external use of this ...

School principals and district superintendents have a wealth of school improvement options at their fingertips, but many of these solutions fizzle out as they run into conflicts across the school ...

I'm always interested in how "new" ideas for business improvement come about and whether they are really original and new. For example, today there is the widespread application of lean manufacturing ...

United States manufactures have incorporated many methods of cost reduction and efficiency for 35 years. Most of these programs are identified by three-letter acronyms like MRP, JIT and ERP. Others ...

“Continuous improvement” has quickly become a buzzword in K-12 policy and practice, as states, districts, and schools strive for systemic, long-term gains in student achievement, instead of looking ...