Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management: Volume 15 Issue 4

Enabling continuous improvement: a case study of implementation

Bertus de Jager, Chris Minnie, Johan de Jager, Marita Welgemoed, John Bessant, Dave Francis

Widespread recognition of the strategic imperative posed by a turbulent external environment has brought into focus a key challenge for firms – that of increasing involvement in…

Stimulating and evolving knowledge‐oriented improvement processes in a business enterprise

Ronald C. Beckett

It is observed that concepts of a learning organization and of knowledge management intended to better utilize the intellectual assets of a business enterprise in supporting…

The implementation process of standardisation

Agnar Gudmundsson, Harry Boer, Mariano Corso

Most companies are experiencing changes in the competitive environment that typesets different sets of requirements in product development management. Action research into the…

Development of a team‐based framework for conducting self‐assessment of continuous improvement

Frances Jørgensen, Harry Boer, Frank Gertsen

The study presented in this article is based on two basic premises. First, successful continuous improvement (CI) is dependent on shop floor level involvement and participation in…

Balanced scorecards for strategic and sustainable continuous improvement capability

Mandar Dabhilkar, Lars Bengtsson

Illustrates how strategic continuous improvement (CI) capabilities were developed in three Swedish manufacturing companies that have implemented the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). A…

Recent findings on organisational changes in German capital goods producing industry

Peter Brödner, Erich Latniak

This paper presents two basic approaches of generating innovation and improved business performance (so called “low road” and “high road” approaches) and describes organisational…

Exploring Six Sigma and CI capability development: preliminary case study findings on management role

Arto Haikonen, Taina Savolainen, Pekka Järvinen

Aims to explore the Six Sigma methodology as a method for developing CI capability. More specifically, the focus is on the role of management in the improvement of processes. Any…