continuous improvement
(noun)
An ongoing effort to make products, services, or processes better.
Examples of continuous improvement in the following topics:
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Building Community
- Boundless works with a community of educators and subject-matter experts to continually improve and expand our content.
- As a result our material is constantly being expanding and improved.
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TQM
- TQM is aimed at customer satisfaction via continuous improvement of the quality of business products and processes.
- Total Quality Management (TQM) is a management philosophy based on the continuous improvement of the quality of business products and processes.
- TQM includes management, workforce, suppliers, and customers to improve the quality of the product or service.
- Some businesses strive to improve on current process because this is a very crucial management mechanism that increases the success of a business organization.
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One-Time Contributions and Feedback
- Anyone can suggest edits to or leave feedback on Boundless content, which means our content is dynamic and continuously improving.
- Anyone can add, remove, or reformat content to their heart's content; they can also leave feedback with suggestions for improvements if they don't want to make the changes themselves.
- It's important to note, however, that any changes made by community members will only be published on the site if they are deemed by the Boundless Content Team to be genuine constructive improvements—other contributions will be declined and hidden.
- Subject-matter experts can add or remove content to improve pedagogical clarity and address feedback left by other Boundless users.
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TQM
- Total quality management (TQM) is an integrative philosophy of management for continuously improving the quality of products and processes.
- Total Quality Management (TQM) is an integrative philosophy of management for continuously improving the quality of products and processes .
- The basic principles for the Total Quality Management philosophy of doing business are to satisfy the customer, satisfy the supplier, and continuously improve the business processes.
- The third principle of TQM is continuous improvement.
- Worker Suggestions: Workers are often a source of continuous improvements.
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Total Quality Management Techniques
- Six sigma, JIT, Pareto analysis, and the Five Whys technique are all approaches that can be used to improve overall quality.
- Total Quality Management (TQM) is an integrative management philosophy for continuous improvement of the quality of an organization's products and processes in order to meet or exceed customer expectations.
- There are several TMQ strategies used to improve business management systems.
- JIT focuses on continuous improvement to maximize an organization's return on investment, quality, and efficiency.
- It is now used within Kaizen (continuous improvement), lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma.
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JIT manufacturing principles
- They work in partnership with management and each other in the continuous pursuit of excellence.
- Employees work together in problem-solving teams to gather data and build consensus on how to improve work processes.
- Managers are charged with hiring employees who can work in a proactive team environment, and provide the training and incentives to build a work culture that is focused on continuous improvement.
- "Lean operations" captures the true essence and power of how a culture built around continuous improvement and the pursuit of value-added activities leads directly to competitive advantage in the marketplace.
- Lean operations is a management philosophy for any organization to achieve higher quality, increased productivity, improved delivery speed, greater responsiveness to changing markets, and increased customer satisfaction.
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Bureaucratic Control
- The quality control cycle improves processes through a continuous cycle of planning, doing, checking, and acting.
- It is designed to improve the quality of a product or process through continuous reinvention.
- Ultimately, it is a process that continuously evolves within the production process.
- PDCA (plan–do–check–act or plan–do–check–adjust) is a four-step management method used in business to control and continuously improve processes and products.
- It is important to keep in mind that this quality control process is continuous and specifically designed to improve the quality of business processes on an ongoing basis.
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Philosophies
- Quality management adopts a number of management principles that can be used to guide organizations towards improved performance.
- Quality management adopts a number of management principles that can be used by top management to guide their organizations towards improved performance.
- Continual improvement: One of the permanent quality objectives of an organization should be the continual improvement of its overall performance.
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Total Quality Management (TQM)
- Total quality management (TQM) promotes the importance of improving quality on a continuous basis.
- Continuous improvement: There is no perfect system.
- Process improvements must be continuous.
- All of these elements emphasize the importance of improving quality by empowering employees, providing adequate training, and building a continuous organizational culture of improvement.
- Employ the total quality management (TQM) perspective to identify how to improve quality and efficiency on a continuous basis
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Art Under the Zhou Dynasty
- Under the Zhou, expansion of this form of writing, with the inclusion of patrons and ancestors, continued.
- Other improvements to bronze objects under the Eastern Zhou included greater attention to detail and aesthetics.
- The casting process itself was improved by a new technique, called the lost wax method of production.
- Ceramic and Jade art continued from the Shang dynasty and was improved and refined especially during the Warring States Period.
- The Zhou continued and developed lacquer work done in the Shang dynasty.