Continual improvement
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Continual Improvement, also called incremental or staircase improvement is a process or productivity improvement tool, intended to have a stable and consistent growth and improvement of all the segments of a process or processes. Continual improvement ensures the process stabilization and further improvement. When an organization's growth and development is intended, identification of all the processess and development of a measurement analysis of each process step is necessary. Some of the continual improvement tools include the Corrective action analysis, preventive action analysis and customer satisfaction analysis. ISO Management systems such as Quality Management or Environmental Management System do use this to ensure that the over all objectives of the organization are achieved.