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In organizational development (OD), process improvement is a series of actions taken by a process owner to identify, analyze and improve existing business processes within an organization to meet new goals and objectives.[citation needed] These actions often follow a specific methodology or strategy to create successful results. A sampling of these are listed in the "See also" section below.
Process improvement is also a method to introduce process changes to improve quality, reduce costs, or accelerate schedules.[citation needed]
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- Benchmarking
- Business Process Improvement
- Business process reengineering
- Process Redesign
- Capability Maturity Model Integration/Capability Maturity Model
- Goal-Question-Metric
- Hoshin Kanri
- ISO 9000
- IT Governance
- Just In Time manufacturing
- Lean manufacturing
- Performance improvement
- Process management
- Process Improvement and Management (PI&M)
- Six Sigma
- Theory of Constraints
- Total Quality Management
- Trillium Model
- Twelve leverage points
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