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What is continuous improvement?

by | Aug 14, 2025 |

Companies across the globe list Continuous Improvement as one of their main core values. What exactly is it and what's all the hype? Continuous Improvement is a framework for business growth and improvement every day. It draws on principles and tools developed over...

Standard Work

by | May 14, 2020 |

Standard Work As you may recall, the lean system of continuous improvement is designed to help you achieve the three goals below: Highest Quality Shortest Lead Time Lowest Cost The foundation of achieving these goals is in creating stability in e work flow of your...

Improve business results with a CIU Subscription

by | August 15, 2025 | Improve Results | 0 Comments

Unlock the power of CIU's training courses for your entire workforce. With a business subscription, all your employees get open access to all online courses. Imagine the power of your entire team completing improvement projects that wow your customers and help grow...
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What is continuous improvement?

by | August 14, 2025 | Fundamentals | 0 Comments

Companies across the globe list Continuous Improvement as one of their main core values. What exactly is it and what's all the hype? Continuous Improvement is a framework for business growth and improvement every day. It draws on principles and tools developed over...
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Building a culture of continuous improvement is a lot like building a car

by | January 12, 2023 | Fundamentals | 0 Comments

This video explains the four principles needed to begin building a culture of continuious improvement by way of comparison to building a car. Build good processes that deliver value Establish standard work for stability and consistency Build quality into your...
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Standard Work

by | May 14, 2020 | Standard Work | 0 Comments

Standard Work As you may recall, the lean system of continuous improvement is designed to help you achieve the three goals below: Highest Quality Shortest Lead Time Lowest Cost The foundation of achieving these goals is in creating stability in e work flow of your...
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Focus on the Process

by | April 30, 2020 | Process | 0 Comments

POSTED APRIL 30, 2020 ADMIN Use Good Processes to Deliver Value to Customers As you begin learning about CI principles, there are two important things you must master. First, the purpose of everything we do is to deliver value to the customer. We should always be...
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Intro to Standard CI Certification

by | April 29, 2020 | Fundamentals | 0 Comments

Your pursuit of excellence begins here… The art of evolving, changing, and becoming better is more than just hard work. It is a system that can be learned, mastered and utilized by anyone looking to grow. What is continuous improvement? Call it a mindset, a...
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Built in Quality

by | April 28, 2020 | Quality | 0 Comments

 Building Quality into the Process What is quality? Quality is a subjective term which can be defined differently depending on the person. Dictionary.com defines quality as being of high grade, superiority, or excellence. The American Society of Quality defines it as...
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Five S

by | April 26, 2020 | Organizations | 0 Comments

  5S Workplace Organization What is 5S? 5S is a five step workplace organization method. It is designed to help stabilize a variable process and create standard work where it does not exist. Possible signals for the need to use 5S could be: an area where it is...
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The Four Fundamentals of Continuous Improvement

by | April 23, 2020 | Fundamentals | 0 Comments

What is the goal of the CIU system? The CIU system of continuous improvement (CI) is designed to help you achieve the goals below: Highest Quality Shortest Processing Time Lowest Cost Each of the four fundamental principles you will learn below are designed to help...
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The 7 Wastes

by | April 20, 2020 | Waste | 0 Comments

“All we are doing is looking at the time line; from the moment the customer gives us an order to the point when we collect cash. We are reducing that time line by removing the non-value-added wastes.” -Taiichi Ohno, Father of the Toyota Production System As Taiichi...
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