Continual versus Continuous Process Improvement

Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) means an ongoing focus on trying to improve incessantly - in small and big ways. CPI is strategic and philosophical in nature.

However, in a real sense improvement is continual rather than continuous. Continual means gradual progress with intervals of rest in between. Basically, every phase of improvement should be followed by a phase of sustenance (for holding on and stabilizing the improvement). In that sense improvement is really not continuous but continual.

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