Continuous improvement Quote by Jeffrey K. Liker Download Open image ““Standardization Is the Basis for Continuous Improvement and Quality”” — Jeffrey K. Liker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Continuous improvement Excellence
If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere. — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“Yet, standardization only leads to sameness, not necessarily quality, and rarely to excellence (p. 9).” — Thomas Newkirk Copy Share Image
Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is impossible to improve any process until it is standardized. If the process is shifting from here to there, then any improvement will… — Masaaki Imai Copy Share Image
“Making continuous improvement is the way how IT can improve itself, the business, the interrelation between IT and the business, to get digital ready.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it. — Phil Crosby Copy Share Image
There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity. — Komla Dumor Copy Share Image
“More important than the actual improvements that individuals contribute, the true value of continuous improvement is in creating an atmosphere of continuous learning and… — Jeffrey K. Liker Copy Share Image
“management has no more critical role than to motivate and engage large numbers of people to work together toward a common goal. Defining and… — Jeffrey K. Liker Copy Share Image
“Every team member has the responsibility to stop the line every time they see something that is out of standard. That's how we put… — Jeffrey K. Liker Copy Share Image
“Andon works only when you teach your employees the importance of bringing problems to the surface so they can be quickly solved.” — Jeffrey K. Liker Copy Share Image
“Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation (genchi genbutsu).” — Jeffrey K. Liker Copy Share Image
“We strive to decide our own fate. We act with self-reliance, trusting in our own abilities. We accept responsibility for our conduct and for… — Jeffrey K. Liker Copy Share Image
“The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises. (Ohno, 1988)” — Jeffrey K. Liker Copy Share Image
“Basically people will do what upper management wants them to do. So if that's consistent, if they're not whipsawed and being governed by different… — Jeffrey K. Liker Copy Share Image
We're focused on providing innovations in software, driving the continuous improvement for a much better experience, and there's a lot going on here that… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“So much has happened since the first publication of The Six Sigma Way, and it has been rewarding to find that much of what… — Peter S. Pande Copy Share Image
Continuous Improvement is taking control of how your company's money is being put to work. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better… — Ludwig Von Mises Copy Share Image
It's a great thing about being a musician; you don't stop until the day you die, you can improve. So it's a wonderful thing… — Marcus Miller Copy Share Image
One shouldn't seek results from working out, but should strive for continuous improvement through physical fitness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“More important than the actual improvements that individuals contribute, the true value of continuous improvement is in creating an atmosphere of continuous learning and… — Jeffrey K. Liker Copy Share Image
Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Making continuous improvement is the way how IT can improve itself, the business, the interrelation between IT and the business, to get digital ready.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following… — David J. Schwartz Copy Share Image
Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were… — Jennifer Young Copy Share Image
