Continual Improvement Category Launched at PM411!

Continual improvement can be defined in many ways. My new category now groups those posts for you. Here’s my list of the new entrants.

Continual improvement can be applied to many areas that are extremely valuable to a company:

With an eye toward protecting against quality “drift”:

http://www.bizzia.com/efficiency-might-be-an-enemy-to-quality/

To your personal and project management:

http://www.bizzia.com/calendaring-and-preparation-fight-bad-multi-tasking-on-projects/

To governance processes:

http://www.bizzia.com/continual-improvement-projects-require-excellent-governance/

To balancing action with preparation:

http://www.bizzia.com/new-beginnings-require-preparation-preparation-and-more-preparation/

To elimination of projects:

http://www.bizzia.com/how-to-eliminate-it-projects/

and finally….to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approaches:

http://www.bizzia.com/soa-as-a-continual-improvement-initiative/

The continually expanding areas that continual improvement can apply to are achieving high impact business process innovation especially when you leave the manufacturing floor (where it all started with Toyota).

Let me know if your definition of continual improvement has been expanded. What other areas have you applied these principles?

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