What is Continuous Improvement?

Nothing’s Permanent

Organizational continuous improvement programs, such as Lean and Six Sigma, emphasize how their methodologies do not create permanent processes.

Program experts acknowledge how improvement projects will move you from a current state to a better, more effective, future state.

But, while gains from a project will be tremendous, the journey is just beginning.

Two critical reasons why a new future state is just the beginning are:

• All improvement projects have limited resources. They cannot possibly create a process which will provide perfect performance at the lowest total cost
• Reaching perfect performance, if possible, will always be temporary. The environment is constantly changing and all processes need to respond to these changes

The reality, we all deal with, is the knowledge that nothing’s permanent. This means you need a culture of continuous improvement if you seek to create a sustainable organization.

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Mike