Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement is the ongoing effort to enhance products, services, or processes for efficiency and effectiveness.

More Innovation Glossaries

Interdisciplinary

Interdisciplinary: integrating knowledge from different disciplines to advance understanding or solve complex problems.

Outside Innovation

Collaborating with customers to engage their expertise in designing new products, services, experiences, and business models.

Corporate Culture

Corporate culture is a company's shared values, beliefs, and behaviors that shape its workplace ethos and influence decision-making.

Top Continuous Improvement Resources

Coronavirus: 5 Checklists for Jumpstarting Business Continuity Planning

As the coronavirus continues to impact the global economy, businesses need to plan for continuity to prevent disaster. Brainzooming offers free resources for businesses to jumpstart their planning.

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Holidays and How to Plan Your Schedule Around Them

Planning around holidays is a minefield of risks for your project. Here are some tips.

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The Part of the Innovation Process that Everyone Forgets

Maintaining excitement and engagement of team members during the innovation process is challenging. The middle part where most of the work happens tends to be forgotten.

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Innovation Success Through Planning, Preparation, and Organization by Woody Bendle

Innovation success requires a purposeful execution of the innovation process, which involves planning, preparation, and organization.

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Putting Continuous Planning Types to Work

Learn about the different types of continuous planning organizations can use to adjust and react to new information and take advantage of emerging opportunities.

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Embracing a Continuous Improvement Practice for Effective Ideation

Continuous improvement can be challenging without a well-defined practice. Alan Robinson suggests an inclusive, idea-driven approach that embraces virtual teams and promotes cross-pollination.

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Using a Timer Will Make Your Meetings Instantly Better

Meetings can be more effective by using a timer to set out an agenda and keep people focused, leading to faster decisions, increased engagement and more successful collaborations.

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What blocks speed blocks innovation

Innovation and speed are intricately linked. To increase both and achieve success, firms need to remove three barriers: unclear mission, fixed processes, and internal barriers.

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What is a good customer insight?

Crafting a powerful insight when developing ideas takes effort and time. To ensure true insights, focus on customers and avoid reverse benefits.

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Why Context Matters in Successful Innovation

Innovation can be simplified into three deliverables - problem definition, ideas, and solutions - with context and content development between them playing a key role in driving innovation value.

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The Ultimate Guide to Continuous Improvement

Continuous Improvement is a process that organizations use to continuously strive to be more efficient and effective. This article explains the benefits and challenges of Continuous Improvement, provides best practices for implementation, and highlights popular tools and methods.

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Continuous Improvement Processes - Choosing the right one for your business

Continuous Improvement (CI) Processes help companies improve their services, products or processes to drive positive change. This article explores the benefits and implementation of CI Processes.

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Three Phases of Embedding Innovation

Fear of failure is the biggest impediment to innovation. Organizations need to create a culture conducive to growth and experimentation to unleash their innovation potential.

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Is innovation really important to you?

Innovation is crucial to driving change and creating growth, but many organizations struggle to keep up with the rapid pace of change. To succeed, companies need to establish a new model of change that embraces agility, flexibility, and ongoing transformation.

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Enterprises: to Embrace Uncertainty, Alleviate Anxiety

To embrace uncertainty, organizations must alleviate anxiety in their workforce. Three strategies to achieve this are decentralizing control, boosting employee wellness, and building a culture of support and cooperation.

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Five success factors for the continuous improvement process

Five success factors for effective continuous improvement process: integrate CIP goals into corporate strategy, support employees, involve external partners, foster culture of continuous improvement, and utilize digital tools for collaboration.

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The Right Time will Never Come: 5 Steps to Execute Your Idea

Learn how to execute your idea and overcome procrastination by setting goals and taking action with these five steps.

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Continuous Innovation: Advantages And Challenges

Continuous Innovation: Advantages And Challenges

Continuous innovation is essential for business growth and requires constant investment and commitment to stay competitive.

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Creative Problem Solving Process | InnovationTraining.org

Creative Problem Solving Process | InnovationTraining.org

Learn about creative problem solving (CPS) methodology and how it can be used to find innovative solutions to challenges and generate new ideas.

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Prophet Study: Applying the Cultural Levers of Transformation

Prophet Study: Applying the Cultural Levers of Transformation

Learn how to determine key cultural levers on which to focus, based on your organization’s greatest needs for cultural change

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Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

Ways to Make your Innovation Culture Smell Better

If you are going to invest in the work to improve your innovation culture, you are investing in change.

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