Continuous improvement Quote by Jeffrey K. Liker

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

— Henry Ford

“Yet, standardization only leads to sameness, not necessarily quality, and rarely to excellence (p. 9).”

— Thomas Newkirk

Where there is no standard, there can be no improvement. For these reasons, standards are the basis for both maintenance and improvement

— Masaaki Imai

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

“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

We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.

— Phil Crosby

A vendor neutral, standards-based approach must be adopted

— Carly Fiorina

Without standards, there can be no improvement.

— Taiichi Ohno

Quality begins with the intent, which is fixed by management.

— W. Edwards Deming

There is only one standard - a global standard. Be consistent, operate at 100% every single time you're given an opportunity.

— Komla Dumor

The Standard ... is the standard.

— Mike Tomlin