Continuous Improvement Program

This week, I reviewed my school’s Continuous Improvement Plan (CIP) and the School Needs Assessment with my mentor. We focused on the data driven needs of the campus based on the previous year’s State Assessment results. The campus needed to do well enough on last year’s assessments so that it would be removed from both the state PEG list and the Improvement Required list. When looking at assessment data and its effect on the schools Needs Assessment, it showed that the areas that needed the most improvement from the previous year were being addressed in the CIP for the coming year. According to the state regulations, the CIP must be reviewed and updated yearly by the school’s Improvement Committee.

To lead continuous improvement you need to be able to identify areas in need of change, and then establish a sense of urgency that a change needs to take place and make others aware of the need for change. Once this has been established leaders can then scan the internal and external environment looking at competitive conditions such as market conditions, social, technological, profit and loss, business operations and other

The company ensured that they monitored each new process that were implemented by putting performance measures in place to reflect gaugeable improvements. Group leaders were assigned to each division to monitor and review them regularly, and again, more importantly, to take ownership and be accountable. The company continues to monitor and implement changes in an attempt for continuous improvement and embrace team

The Goal, written by Eliyah Goldratt and Jeff Cox, is a 40-chapter book. It is a novel that tells that story of a businessman that is in charge of a plant. This book is more like a business textbook, but is very interesting and easy to understand because is written as a story. As an operation management student, I think this is a very educative book, because it gives you real life situation examples that could happen to anyone. There is a lot to learn from this book.

Continuous quality improvement also known as CQI is an implementation means for advancing the excellence of value presented by associations. Continuous quality improvement appertains to encompassing a standardized way to accumulating and evaluating information or data, in pursuance of to classify contingency to progress the process of a business with the conclusion of distributing improved benefits to consumers or patrons. CQI is a guided path to superiority development that accentuates a continuing or recurrent development of enhancement and assessment.

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1.5 Systems for Continuous Improvement – While leaders are able to articulate West End’s priorities, the path or strategy for success within each of these initiatives is not consistently defined for teachers, students and parents. Priorities are clearly identified by the leadership team however the expected outcomes for these strategies are not clearly defined at the outset. For example, the implementation of a CCSS-aligned Math curriculum is a widely understood improvement strategy among West End leaders, however teachers, students and parents may remain unclear on benchmarks and expected outcomes as they relate to increased rigor and resulting student gaps, changes in classroom instruction, teacher coaching and parent education/support with

4) Continuous improvement is based on the philosophy that any aspect of an operation can be improved.

As the name of the book mentions “Goal: ongoing improvement” but it just does not explain the goal and ongoing process to improve the system but also talks about the theory of constraints. Constraints which we face in real life situation. The main character in the book is Alex Rogo who is the manager of manufacturing plant. His plant is one of the few plants which company operates. Alex’s plant was not making enough money to sustain on its own. Orders were getting delayed often and the throughput was reduced which was eventually taking plant towards the financial losses. Management was very upset with the performance of the plant. They would have to shut it down if plant kept loosing money in future. There was a pressure

1. Key systems and processes goals, objectives and targets need to be achieved within the designated timeline.

For this discussion board assignment I have chosen to further research the key term of continuous improvement. My main reason for wanting to do further research into this topic is out of a general curiosity and interest of mine as well as how it is relevant to my current job. Ever since learning about the Toyota Production System (TPS) and lean manufacturing a year ago while taking another class at Liberty University, I have been continuing to learn as much as I can about it. I think that lean manufacturing is so interesting and has a lot of value for manufacturing as well as many other fields and even in my daily life. Continuous improvement is a big part of lean manufacturing, so that is why I chose to write about this topic.

Mediums to be used in order to inform team members of the outcomes of continuous improvement processes could be in the form of a soft copy such as e- mail, sms, a power point presentation, or an Intranet platform as well as in the shape of a hard copy like personalised letters and general newsletters. For outcomes concerning the entire team a staff meeting is to be considered at which any of the above mentioned media can be used to accomplish and support the outcomes presentation. Graphs and

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is an iterative process of: planning to improve a product or process, plan implementation, analyzing and comparing results against those expected, and corrective action on differences between actual and expected results. It is little used in clinical medicine. Anemia, a complex problem in End Stage Renal Disease patients, served to test the ability of an unique electronic medical record (EMR) optimized for daily care to empower CQI in practice. They used data collected during daily care, stored in the EMR, and organized to display temporal relationships between clinical, laboratory, and therapeutic events.

I think also it goes to a different mindset, because typically those workers were working in an economy where they started when they were 20 and work until you are 60 years old in that job setting and I think that is one of the struggles and they thought this was their last job. I know I got re interviewed ten years ago, but I thought I was going ride this one until retirement. Now you have got twelve more years until retirement and you have to relook at stuff.

What is quality improvement? Why is it necessary? Who benefits from having a Quality Improvement Team? What can we do to improve their performance? Quality improvement is a “structured