The study began with the problem posed by an organisation for a group of researchers in the UK. There was a need to carry out an in-depth study to evaluate the continuous improvement programmes in the context of Lean Construction, and the following question emerged: How to evaluate the continuous improvement programme? This paper aims to understand how the literature on continuous improvement, ...

Continuous Improvement is a well-known and consolidated concept in literature and practice and is considered vital in today’s business environment. In 2003 a survey, as part of the international CINet survey, has been performed in the Netherlands in order to gain insight into the current practices and the evolution of continuous improvement over the past 5 years. From a sample of 51 companies, ...

background and objectives: given the growing concern focused on the continuous improvement of the quality of care, safety and customer satisfaction, the ibn sina university hospital (chis) has started an ambitious program for institutionalization of quality management at the establishments under the chis, in general, and the iso certification 9001v2008 of its biomedical analysis laboratories, i...

Evaluation and continuous improvement of software maintenance are key contributors to improve software quality. The software maintenance function suffers from a scarcity of the management models that would facilitate its evaluation, management and continuous improvement. This paper presents an overview the measurements practices that are being introduced for level 3 and higher to the software m...

MindTestTM guidelines help tune standardized test processes to a specific testing engagement. These guidelines aim at improved productivity of the tester. They apply a 360-degree view to continuous improvement, resulting in greater efficiency, higher quality, and lower cost. Mindtree has defined this methodology based on best practices established through testing thousands of applications and s...