At Distribution Solutions, we engaged UniteHere warehouse workers and truck drivers and made them part of the process of improvement.
To be sure, innovation has thrived in these settings, but it has been the sort of process improvement innovation that makes existing industries function better rather than the type that creates new markets, caters to new consumers, or pioneers new business models.
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The district was in the process of accepting a School Improvement Grant to implement the turnaround model at the school.
Just imagine where this will take the marketing organization in terms of process improvement and technological support to get the job done.
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In a sense, StreamWork applies the Lean Manufacturing concept of standardizing work to the process of decision making, which makes a variety of continuous improvement processes possible.
So much of the rationale in having a CIO take on another area of responsibilities is the need for process improvement in the new area, or the need to leverage technology better in the new area, or to identify ways in which setting standards or centralizing to a greater degree might reduce costs.
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And so, as a part of No Child Left Behind, there is a process where the school will go into a year one of needs improvement, a year two of needs improvement.
Over the past decade there has been growing international agreement that the system for linking science and policy in the area of biodiversity and ecosystem services needed further improvement, resulting ultimately in the process for creating an Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
With such a large focus dedicated to maintenance, training and administration, the ability of IT managers to find the time and resources to invest in innovation, even process improvement initiatives will be hampered, if not completely derailed.
This bottom-up process of incremental improvement relies on letting workers change the way they do things if it leads to better results.
The result is that management spends a large amount of time looking at process improvement ideas, rather than defining broader process and business problems.
Process improvement and increasing efficient productivity should never be done at the cost of cutting corners.
'promote international cooperation and to coordinate programmes in research, services and capacity building, in order to learn more about the nature and resources of the ocean and coastal areas and to apply that knowledge for the improvement of management, sustainable development and protection of the marine environment and the decision-making process of its Member States'.
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