Continual Improvement
A continual improvement process, also often called a continuous improvement process (abbreviated as CIP or CI), is an ongoing effort to improve products, services, or processes. These efforts can seek "incremental" improvement over time or "breakthrough" improvement all at once. Delivery processes are constantly evaluated and improved in the light of their efficiency, effectiveness and flexibility.
Incremental improvements are typically inexpensive to implement
Employees tend to focus on small changes that can be accomplished without a lot of expense. In fact, many ideas from employees involve eliminating processes, rather than adding them, which is an excellent way to be sure that every activity adds some value to the customer and reduces wasted effort.
Employee ideas are valuable
The continual improvement model relies greatly on employees, not only top management, to identify opportunities for improvement.This bottom-up improvement is effective because employees are closest to the problems, and thus better equipped to solve them.
