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 ...

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 ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. They say all businesses are either growing or dying. There isn’t an in-between. We are either improving or degrading at all times. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Jerry Burris came to Associated Materials LLC as its new president and CEO in 2011, he joked that he didn’t care whether employees used duct tape, primer or Band-Aids to improve the company’s ...

While deciding which continuous improvement programs are appropriate for your employees, here's some food for thought: According to the IndustryWeek/Manufacturing ...

Mark Twain, the celebrated American writer and humorist, once proclaimed, "Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection." In these concise yet profound words, Twain encapsulated a ...