International Comparison of Continuous Improving Performance in Chinese Enterprises and the Research of Improvement Measure

Abstract:

No matter what managerial strategy is adopted, the final goal of an enterprise is to improve its business performance and competition. As a company-wide incremental process of innovation, Continuous Improvement has become an important strategy for an enterprise to maintain manufacturing competition. In this paper, the performance of CI in Chinese enterprises will be evaluated based on the international investigation of CI. And the paper has a comparative analysis of the performances of CI in Chinese enterprises and foreign enterprises. Then the paper chooses the enterprises with good performance and uses Benchmarking to research the methods of CI. Finally the paper sums the suggestions of the performance of CI in Chinese enterprises. These suggestions provide reference to carry out CI in enterprises.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 479-481)
• Pages: 1695-1698
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.479-481.1695
• Online since: February 2012
• Authors: Yang Yang, Chun Sheng Shi, Li Run Hu
• Keywords: Benchmarking, Continuous Improvement, Improvement Measure, Performance

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