Process improvement

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In organizational development (OD), Process improvement is a series of actions taken to identify, analyze and improve existing processes within an organization to meet new goals and objectives. These actions often follow a specific methodology or strategy to create successful results. A sampling of these are listed below.

[edit] See also

• Benchmarking
• Business Process Improvement
• Business process reengineering
• Capability Maturity Model Integration/Capability Maturity Model
• Hoshin Kanri
• ISO 9000
• Just In Time manufacturing
• Lean manufacturing
• Performance improvement
• Process management
• Process Improvement and Management (PI&M)
• Six Sigma
• Theory of Constraints
• Total Quality Management
• Trillium Model
• Twelve leverage points

[edit] External links

• PRISE - Process Improvement and Software Engineering - Custom Search Engine. Gupta Boda (2007). Retrieved on 1 August 2007.