The plumbing and heating industry is becoming increasingly competitive. This may be due to a sudden rise in demand for home improvements during the pandemic which pushed the industry to a record high ...

Small businesses often have difficulty competing with larger competitors that are able to mass produce products at low costs. Continuous quality improvement is a business management system that ...

Multinational enterprises’ subsidiaries need other incentives to optimize their performance if transfer pricing policies ...

There are many excellent books and videos on Lean and continuous improvement. They each provide a slightly different perspective and, as such, each adds their own unique value. To distill some of the ...

“Respect for people” is one of the most critical lean principles, and also one of the most misunderstood. If not practiced, developing a lean culture of continuous improvement is impossible. Most ...

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The continuous improvement culture of an organization is the dynamic force that is vital in getting that desirable competitive edge. It ...

Is it possible to suggest that Six Sigma, Kaizen, Lean, and other variations on continuous improvement can be hazardous to your organization's health? While it may be heresy to say this, recent ...

Startups operate in a fast-paced environment where resources are scarce, time is of the essence, and the margin for error is ...