IndustryWeek’s coverage of lean and continuous improvement over the past year presents a wealth of wisdom to help advance ...

Knowledge and experience in quality and continuous improvement are highly valued by today's employers. The principles are being applied in engineering, healthcare, business, service, nonprofits, and ...

Well-run businesses strive to find examples of continuous improvements in the workplace. As these improvements increase the bottom line, managers look for methods to find a measurable gain that can ...

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 ...

Building agility into your team’s approaches can help your organization adapt to fast-changing conditions from within or even external ones. A key part of this that has benefited many of my consulting ...

Continuous Improvement (CI) is a term we hear a lot lately. Sadly, despite knowing the term and possibly even applying CI principles to some aspects of operations, CI principles are infrequently ...

I was educated and trained that continuous improvement is a philosophy centered in service -- so much so, that if a process failed, you (as leadership) were to apologize to the employee and solicit ...

In an era of digital disruption, IT organizations need to move faster. Given this, should CIOs be active enablers of continuous improvement? Several years ago, I reviewed ITIL Version 3.0. When I got ...

Is it possible to suggest that Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean, and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health? While it may be heresy to say this, recent ...