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What is Process Improvement?

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Business process improvement is the practice of measuring your business processes and continually improving results until processes are fully optimized.
Measurements of business processes are chosen to achieve an organization's strategy. This can be a challenging task because measurements that are unbalanced tend to result in undesirable optimizations. For example, if you measure cost without measuring quality, costs will drop at the expense of quality.
Strategies to improve processes include automation, eliminating waste and redesigning processes to improve results. In many cases, results are benchmarked against the best known result for an industry.
Overview: Process Improvement
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Process Automation
Definition
Measuring business processes and optimizing using techniques such as automation and elimination of waste.
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John Spacey. "What is Process Improvement?." Simplicable. Retrieved June 21, 2026. from https://simplicable.com/new/process-improvement

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