Process Improvement

Process improvement is an aspect of organizational development (OD) in which a series of actions are taken by a process owner to identify, analyze and improve existing processes within the organization to meet new goals and objectives such as increasing profits and performance, reducing costs and accelerating schedules. These actions often follow a specific methodology or strategy to increase the likelihood of successful results. Process improvement may include the restructuring of company training programs to increase their effectiveness.

Process improvement is also a method to introduce process changes to improve the quality of a product or service, to better match customer and consumer needs.

The objective of PI is a radical change in the performance of an organization, rather than a series of incremental changes.

Our PI approach typically involves six steps:

• Selection of process teams and leader
• Process analysis training
• Process analysis interview
• Process documentation
• Review cycle
• Problem analysis