Facilitate Continuous Improvement: Strategies and Tools

Running head: FACILITATE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
FACILITATE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
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FACILITATE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
Continuous improvement is a persistent effort which involves the “plan- do -check-
act”(PDCA) cycle which helps in identifying an opportunity, implement the transition on a
small scale, utilize data in order to evaluate results of the transition and lastly execute the
operation on the broader scale if change is accomplished(Dale 2015).
Employee involvement in decision-making procedure is significant as it effectively
diminishes the gaps and further opens areas of communication between supervisors and
employees (Boer et al. 2017). It offers an opportunity to share the knowledge and enhance the
relationship between the manager and employee by encouraging a strong sense of team
participation among workers.
Significance of communication in continuous improvement process aids behavioral
changes of the organization and facilitates in the developmental sustainability(Boer et al. 2017).
Stakeholders like customers or investors must be involved in the communication specifically
for face-to-face communication to make them understand the transitions and further establish
trust within the stakeholders.
Training provides adequate knowledge to let individuals perform specific task
efficiently. While coaching helps a person to accomplish particular goals. However mentor
belonging to the same industry answers to personal experience with the individual in order to
improve his or her self being (Stewart 2014).
SIPOC model (suppliers input process output customers) is referred to a visual tool
for documentation of business processes from beginning to an end these diagrams are father
considered to be high level process maps as they contain brief information about the
organisation.