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Continual improvement of the organization's overall performance should be a permanent objective of the organization.

Key benefits:

• Performance advantage through improved organizational capabilities.

• Alignment of improvement activities at all levels of an organization's strategic intent.

• Flexibility to react quickly to opportunities.

Applying the principle of continual improvement typically leads to:

• Employing a consistent organization-wide approach to continual improvement of the organization's performance.

• Providing people with training in the methods and tools of continual improvement.

• Making continual improvement of products, processes and systems an objective for every individual in the organization.

• Establishing goals to guide and measures to track continual improvement.

• Recognizing and acknowledging improvements.