1st Edition

CI Changes from Suggestion Box to Organisational Learning Continuous Improvement in Europe and Australia

Edited By Harry Boer, Anders Berger, Ross Chapman, Frank Gertsen Copyright 2000
    358 Pages
    by Routledge

    358 Pages
    by Routledge

    This title was first published in 2000:  A consideration of continuous improvement (CI) practice and performance. It brings together the results of a survey conducted simultaneously in a number of countries, with the express intention of building up understanding of how companies throughout the world are managing the process of implementing and, perhaps more importantly, sustaining, the process of CI. In so doing, the book offers a perspective on the similarities and differences of experience in a number of countries and sheds light on possible generic problems that managers throughout the world will have to grapple with if they are to take advantage of the true potential offered by their significant investments in human resources.

    1: Introduction; 2: Continuous Improvement in the UK; 3: Continuous Improvement strategies in the manufacturing sector in Sweden; 4: Continuous Improvement in Norway; 5: Continuous Improvement in the Netherlands; 6: Continuous Improvement in Finland; 7: Continuous Improvement in Denmark: the role of experience; 8: Continuous Improvement strategies in the Australian manufacturing sector; 9: Continuous Improvement in Europe and Australia. Do location and CI maturity make a difference?; 10: Managing Continuous Improvement in different cultures; 11: Continuous Improvement in the process of developing manufacturing strategy; 12: Managerial implications and future directions

    Biography

    Harry Boer, Anders Berger, Ross Chapman, Frank Gertsen