The Continual Improvement Project Cycle

All organisations should, to some degree, have a goal of achieving Continuous Improvement and/or having a Continuous Improvement culture. Without this goal long term or continued success is unlikely to occur.

There are a multitude of methodologies and tools that can be deployed to achieve this: Continual Improvement, Business Improvement, Lean Implementation, Kaizen, PDCA, DMAIC, 6 Sigma etc. But where is the starting point and what method do you use?

This blog has been looking at the principles, behaviours, measurements and methodology around implementing and achieving a Continuous Improvement culture across your organisation but everything I’ve written can be scalable down to use at any level. Whether you work within a team, lead a team or run a whole division taking on some of the CI principles and following a simple Continuous Improvement Project Cycle is easy.

The tools you wish to employ to help you achieve this are really down to you. Sometimes the nature of your organisation or the work that you do will dictate the methods you should employ. For instance if you work in an area that is rich with reliable data then 6 Sigma would be good but if you’re in a manufacturing or factory environment then Lean would be best.

The following link will take you to further information on the Continual Improvement Project Cycle.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7SbEtX1W8rGRkkyd3dMLUYtMW8

Note you may need to open in google Chrome to access downloadable material

In my next post you’ll be able to download a Continuous Improvement process.