Continuous Improvement in Organizations

3 credits · Undergraduate

Whether your future work is in a startup or a multinational corporation, a for-profit or non-profit organization, or a job that makes things or develops people, the tools of continuous improvement can help you push your organization beyond the status quo. Successful organizations look to what they can improve upon to better meet their organizational goals and improve performance. In this course, you will learn and apply methods of continuous improvement (e.g., Kaizen, Lean, and Improvement Science), including the Plan, Do, Check (or Study), Act cycles to improve organizational processes and practices. Students will both individually and collaboratively apply these methods to case studies as well as to personal and organizational aspects that they want to improve. Pre-requisite/Co-requisite: HOD 2500 [3]