Rock Your World - Encouraging Process Perpetual Motion

Every aspect of ensuring quality is an evolutionary process. In order to keep the overall process alive, one needs a little dynamic tension, something to keep the idea of continuous improvement moving forward. Methods to help the group cope with the evolution include the following: using diverse, cross-functional team members; executing continuous process improvements; and migrating activities into an automated tool. A crucial ingredient in process improvement is diversification. One can help encourage active engagement in collaborative process improvement (CPI) by publishing process helpers on the local intranet. The success of any innovation involves early adopters, the majority, and laggards. The rate at which employees adopt any change can be adjusted in several key ways. Each can raise or lower the stickiness of the change through the following variables: relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability.