process improvement
Making things better
Process improvement is the practice of identifying and eliminating inefficiencies in how work gets done.
Organizations pursue process improvement to reduce costs, increase quality, or speed up delivery: The consultant recommended several process improvements to streamline order fulfillment.
The term belongs to business and management contexts, where it often involves systematic methodologies like Lean or Six Sigma.
- cycle timeDuration of one repetition
- KaizenOngoing incremental enhancement philosophy
- streamliningMaking more aerodynamic or efficient
- throughputProcessing rate over time
- optimizationMaximizing efficiency or performance
Six Sigma · Manufacturing · value stream mapping · bottleneck · pain points · productivity · quality assurance · waste reduction · automation · workflow · redesign · change management · metrics · continuous · waste · resource allocation · key performance indicators · quality
- productivityproductivity, checking off, prioritization, finishing, output
- business skillsmanagement, financial literacy, leadership, deal-making, delegation
- efficiencyoptimization, efficient, streamlining, effective, optimize
- supply chainsupply, supplier, delivering, suppliers, vendor
- cost cuttingcost cutting, budgeting, cost reduction, budget, budget cuts
- Government Reformbudget reform, fiscal reform, government reform, policy reform, regulatory reform
process improvementregression
Return to former state
backsliding · entropy · disimprovement · cutting corners · decline
process improvementstatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
stagnation · inertia · complacency · standing pat · doing nothing