ABSTRACT
Results-based systematic improvement planning (SIP) is a structured approach to improvement. It draws on proven industrial engineering and quality improvement techniques, along with some of its own, and enables people to make positive changes. The aim of systematic strategic planning is to detect and minimize non-value-added processes and to provide a systematic procedure for continuous and satisfactory improvements. SIP is used mainly on the shop floor of manufacturing companies, it can also be used to an even greater extent in many organizations outside the manufacturing realm: professional firms, sheltered workshops, hospitals, retail stores, and schools, to name a few—in other words, wherever people have a desire to get meaningful improvement results. Creating financial and operational improvement objectives is based on customer evaluations and on methods by which efficiency and competency can be sensitively measured. Develop and identify options, brainstorm the possibilities, refine them into viable options, and predict results for each option.
