Explain why continuous quality and performance improvement are important for an organisation

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This task requires you to write a short report for your line manager outlining the benefits and importance of implementing continual quality and performance improvements. You will need to identify a quality and/or performance problem and how you and your team would resolve the problem as well as adopting similar techniques for ongoing improvement. You will need to show that you have looked at more than one recognised continuous performance improvement technique (such as Lean Process Improvement, Visual Management, Kaizen, Six Sigma, Quality Circles, Quality Improvement Groups, Benchmarking, or Problem Solving) together with more than one improvement tool (such as Cause and Effect/Fishbone Diagrams, Pareto Charts, Process Flow Charts, Scatter Graphs, Control/Run Charts). Explain why continuous quality and performance improvement are important for an organisation. From this you should be able to compare tools and techniques for improving future performance giving reasons for your choices.

In order to demonstrate your knowledge of this you need to respond to all of the questions listed below.

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You may want to relate your answers to an organisation that you work in. If you are not currently working within an organisation, then you may complete this task in relation to an organisation with which you are familiar. This could include experience working in a voluntary capacity.

You should plan to spend approximately 10 hours preparing for and writing or presenting the outcomes of this assignment for assessment. The `nominal` word count for this assignment is 1200 words: the suggested range is between 1000 and 1500 words.

Check your assignment carefully prior to submission using the assessment criteria. Explain why continuous quality and performance improvement are important for an organisation

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Assessment Criteria

Understand the importance of continuous quality and performance improvement within the workplace 32

• Explain why continuous quality and performance improvement are important for an organisation (16 marks)
• Explain how the team could be encouraged to adopt continuous improvement techniques
• (16 marks)

Know how to use business improvement tools and techniques to continuously improve the workplace 44

• Identify a problem within the team or own area of the organisation (8 marks)
• Explain two possible causes of the problem (8 marks)
• Explain how to address the problem using a recognised business improvement technique and/or tool (16 marks)
• Outline one method they could use to measure the effectiveness of the proposed improvement tool or technique (12 marks