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A lot of papers, articles, and guides have been written over the recent years addressing Continuous Process Improvement (CPI). However very few address methodologies related to the improvement of the process itself, that is, the processing of the metrics used to measure the effectiveness of a process. The methodology proposed in this paper can be applied to any processes.

By Francois Yves Simon, VP/CIO, Pilot Research Associates, Inc.

CPI stands for ‘Continuous’ ‘Performance’ ‘Improvement.’ A ‘Process’ is usually recursive and its life cycle can be very long such as financial, economic, or relatively short such as industrial, manufacturing, or Information Technology (IT) operation centers applications.

Regardless of the life cycle time, in almost all cases, the end goal is to provide better quality products at the least cost to produce them. In order do achieve this, a process must be ‘Continuously’ monitored and ‘Improved’ in time. The improvement implies that the reference that we are measuring the process against must also change – Raising the Bar – as improvement occurs. By definition, this can only be done by ‘feedback’ mechanisms as shown in this paper.

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