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EON often stress the importance of taking a so-called “comprehensive approach” to continuous improvement, which means addressing four major CI work streams that need to function in a highly integrated fashion to ensure that CI both serves the needs of, and generates value for, the business.  Those work streams include:

1. Strategy deployment
2. Improvement project execution
3. Best practices implementation
4. Performance analytics

The previous article titled CI Management Series – Two Critical Strategy Mistakes to Avoid addressed how to make strategy setting more efficient and strategy management more effective.  This second article in the CI Management series takes a closer look at project execution with a particular focus on two tactics to ensure that improvement projects are driven to completion and have real business impact.

We at P5G often stress the importance of taking a so-called “comprehensive approach” to continuous improvement, which means addressing four major CI work streams that need to function in a highly integrated fashion to ensure that CI both serves the needs of, and generates value for, the business.  Those work streams include:

1. Strategy deployment
2. Improvement project execution
3. Best practices implementation
4. Performance analytics

The next four articles in the CI Management series will tackle each of these work streams in the order shown above starting with strategy deployment.  This article will focus less on the specifics of how to do strategy deployment (which is a topic that has been written on extensively) and more on describing two common mistakes many organizations make and how to avoid them.